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Review on Enhance Your Workout with Yurbuds Ironman Focus Behind the Ear Sport Earphones - 10200, Black (Bulk Packaging) by Luis Jacob

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I should have listened to what I read.

This is not a comment from a seller, although the packaging (wholesale, NOT retail) was a bit confusing. There are no alternate buds included, just the ones that are attached and they appeared to be rotated so I had to fiddle around a bit before trying them on. Nonetheless. I have previously tested them with my Kindle Fire for consistency and general functionality, they are good when sitting still. Bass response is lower than true in-ear headphones, but that's to be expected. Overall they are comfortable and fit fairly securely in either ear. I tried them today at the gym and I'm totally disappointed. My favorite exercise was Precor AMT at 24 H Fitness. It's a low-impact stair-climbing machine that offers relatively little vertical momentum (i.e. doesn't bounce up and down like running). I hooked the ear loops behind my ears and tightened them like I had the day before and started to walk. After 15 minutes, the left earbud detached from my ear thanks to the torque of a poorly tightened earhook. Certainly when you're out and sweating it's no fun fiddling with stuff like this, so after two unsuccessful attempts to get it back in my ear I pulled it out and put it on mono. After 18 minutes the right one didn't fit properly and I felt like it was about to tumble out of my ear, so I just removed it completely and enjoyed the music while exercising. Earhook models and I see now that this is almost certainly good advice as the earhook didn't fit properly AND they add volume to the earpiece to pull out when you're out. Given the meager packaging and lack of paper of any kind, I can't vouch for the fact that these are actually yurbuds, although I don't blame the seller for anything. I just can't say this is the same product as I would have received in retail packaging but I would happily return it and receive the Yurbuds version in retail packaging without the ear loops and with an extra pair of headphones to try out. for a fit. Having given up my Sony in-ear headphones, which also fail with every sweat, I'm also thinking about in-ear headphones at the moment that don't try to go without me.

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