Jvc Harx300 Full-Size Headphones (Headphones )

      Let me start off by saying that this is my first headphone review. Also, these were my best headphones until I came upon Head-Fi (a blessing and a curse, in my own opinion haha). That aside, I decided to review these headphones because nobody had reviewed them yet and I figured I'd give my impressions.
 
We'll start with the design:
     At first glance, these headphones look very flimsy and cheap. The reality is that they do feel cheap, however they are quite durable for the cost. I've dropped them countless times and there are zero cracks or scratches. Not much can be said about the actual design, being that it is a bit basic. Personally, I don't think they look great. Being all cheap plastic, the HA-RX300's are quite light, which brings us to the next subject. The cable, although a bit thin, has had no issues over a year.
 
Comfort:
      The JVC's are very comfortable mostly due to the fact that they are quite light. (For comparison, they are about half the weight of the fairly heavy Shure SRH-840, which I find perfectly comfortable.) In addition to the light weight construction, these headphones hardly clamp at all. The included faux-leather pads are a little on the harder side, but the clamping force is so small that that is almost irrelevant. Before I came to Head-Fi and found an upgrade, I easily used these for hours on end.
 
Audio: 
      Though the build and comfort are pretty nice for the price, the SQ is very lacking. The Monoprice 8320's (a $7.11 IEM) blow the HA-RX300 out of the water at half the price, due to the fact that these JVC's are VERY bass biased, and not in a good way. The bass is a very boomy mid-bass with poor extension. The midrange is pretty badly recessed, and the treble range is almost nonexistant. That aside, the headphones can be made to sound decent through some heavy EQ'ing (heavy as in +10dB in some parts of the mid and upper ranges). Electronic types of music do decently with these, as well as a little bit of rap, but metal and rock struggle badly. The sound never clips unless the track is flawed, so there is that. Many other cheap headphones I have heard have that issue. The headphones don't seem to change much at all with amplification, although one might say the bass gains even a little bit more power, which is unnecessary. The HA-RX300 have a low input impedance (40 or 44 ohms, if I remember) so most portable players will have no trouble driving them. Although the audio quality is lackluster, it isn't too bad for ~$15 set of cans. The Monoprice 8320 IEM's sound much better for half the price, and I have also heard very good things about the over-ear Monoprice 8323 (though they do cost almost 50% more at the whopping price of $21.15.)
 
All in all, the HA-RX300 are O.K. at best. As something in a store next to a bunch of cheap skullcandy buds (the ink'd are what I have had previously), these JVC's will do in a pinch.