Product Review: Philips SBC HS900 Headphones

Hey, these sound great. I bought 'em about a month ago and they fold up nicely and were even pretty comfortable.

Then two weeks later the sliding head yoke snapped on the left side as I pulled them off my ginormous Sputnik of a head. I could still use them as long as I didn't extend the left side at all, which meant that they fit weird and gave me a headache. Then yesterday they snapped all the way, leaving me just to balance the left cup on my ear while the jagged edge stabs into my temple.

I tried duct-taping them just now and thought it looked ridiculous but oughta hold. And then as I was updating the last entry, listening to a little Dick Dale, SNAP it bursts its surly bond and the jagged edge goes deep into my cerebral cortex as I sit here tilting my head to balance it on my ear. (Don't worry, it's my left brain, and I wasn't using that part enough anyway, and it may free up some creative thinking.) So:

POSITIVE: Good sound quality, comfortable
NEGATIVE: Brain-stabbage

VERDICT: these are fragile crap; do not buy them. I don't want to throw them out now since I paid like $25 for them, but I'm not enjoying sharp plastic in my head and I can't figure out how to fix them. If you do get nice over-the-ear headphones, get some with a springy metal bar connecting the headphone parts and not all-plastic.