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Title: mediocre sound quality, ineffective noise reduction
Review: These inexpensive earbuds definitely won't win any awards for sound quality, as they lack the clarity and brilliance of (say) the Sennheiser CX300-B. Also note that these are not "noise canceling" earbuds, but "sound isolating"; like the Sennheisers (and the Shure series) they use a soft rubber earpiece to block out (but not eliminate) ambient noise. For whatever reason, however, the JBuds' earpieces do not seem to be as effective as those of the Sennheisers or the Shures. For this product, at least, "you get what you pay for."
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