Funny looking, great sounding horseshoe.

I was in the market for a horseshoe-shaped pair of headphones, as the pre-market ones that came with my MP3 player were total tuckus in the sound department. It takes a strong man to admit that he prefers bizarre headphones in this day and age where many folks are stuffing their headholes with chiclet-looking little white buds.

Me? I like my bass. At the same time, I didn't want to pay out the dang wazzoo for it.

One day on Woot.com, they were offering two of these horseshoes for the low, low price of only $9.99! At first I thought hard, since it would cost me twice as much to properly shoe my horse with them, but then I realized the deal actually meant I received two pair of HEADPHONES for the price of one! Hot diggety camel-cotton!

So I bought 'em.

The weird shape of these makes sense once you put them over your ears. The wicked little alien curve fits nicely behind your head, and snugs the speakers right up against your hearing flaps. The set comes with removable Ear Seatbelts, and I removed these at first. Later I put them back on, as jogging without them results in the horseshoe crashing down on your collarbones. The ear seatbelts are very unobtrusive.

The sound quality is pure gold-coated candy corn. I'm a bass junkie, and nothing quite gets my legs into a workout like hearing the double-bass thudding staccato of Lamb Of God's Redneck slamming through these little beauties.

All in all, these are great. The only downside I can possibly see is that my pet Zebra might step on them. The band looks like it would snap if abused, and dangit, now I have to be careful about putting my headphones in their proper place instead of leaving them lying on the hallway floor, as is my wont.