This is a pair of headphones that I bought myself in duty free before going on my 2 week holiday, and used them for those 2 weeks. Unfortunately I really don't like them as much as I'd hoped to.
On the packaging it says "over ear, bass boosted DJ headphones". I listen to a lot of bass heavy dubstep music, and the fact that it says "bass boosted" is an absolute joke. The bass just isn't there at all. I was disappointed.
One of the few good things about these headphones is that vocals and instruments sound great. Nice amount of detail, and distortion only starts to appear once you turn the volume above 80% or so.
Now to talk about build quality and design. They are made out of plastic, both black and silver, and have the exact same form factor as the older MDR-V150's. Probably made in the same moulds too. The drivers are made with neodymium magnets, and as mentioned above, they kinda suck. The ear cups swivel, and after just half a week of me using them, the ear cups started to squeak. Now, over a month later, they still do squeak. Major design flaw there.
The cable is probably the only good thing in terms of hardware, it's a pretty thick cable, I haven't managed to tangle it up yet, so that's one good thing. The length of the cable is a whopping 3 metres long, which is the longest I've seen on a pair of headphones, then again, they are supposedly a pair of studio monitoring/DJ headphones. On the end is a standard 3.5mm jack which is gold plated for better audio quality (which obviously hasn't worked) and also in the box is a 1/4 inch adapter which screws onto the end of the normal jack. I haven't been able to get it to work with most other standard 3.5 jacks, so apparently Sony likes exclusivity.
The padding on the ear cups is ok, it's made of inexpensive leatherette and foam, and can become uncomfortable after the headphones have been on for about an hour and a half. On the packaging and also on some websites it says they are "over ear style headphones", which they definitely aren't, unless your ears are 4mm big and shaped as a perfect circle. They don't fit around my ears, or anyone else that tried them on's, for that matter.
The headband is made of more cheap plastic, will probably snap if you bend it too much rather than becoming out of shape, has no padding on it whatsoever and digs in to your head after an hour and a half or so. Another bad feature.
So overall, sound quality isn't really the best, the build quality is really bad, the design of these headphones doesn't really look as nice as most other headphones and in general these headphones are a major disappointment.
Please don't buy these headphones (or Beats).
Saying that, Sony is the worlds best selling headphone manufacturer, with (the evil corporation) Monster Cable, Bose and Skullcandy just behind them. And although you shouldn't buy headphones based on brand, Sony have got a lot of better headphones that you can buy at a similar prove to the V300's, the 2 pairs that I recommended in the video were the MDR-V55 and the MDR-ZX600. Both are great headphones which offer up better fit, are more comfortable and of course have much better audio quality.
I'm also testing out a pair of Sennheiser HD201's for review right now, they are exactly the same price as the V300's but are a lot better. Stay tuned for the full review.
Thanks for reading.
-Y
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