Review: Great sound and very comfortable; don't like the case
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 2, 2013
These Moshi Moonrock ear buds are marketed--at least on Amazon--as being made for the Kindle Fire. I'm not sure why. They're standard size ear buds and thus can work in probably any media player--certainly they work on both my iPod Touch and my 1st generation Kindle Fire.The ear buds come with three sizes of ear plugs--small, medium, and large--and they fit very comfortably. They also sound great, with minimal noise from the cord. To my mind they're comparable in sound quality to myJBuds J2 Premium Hi-FI Noise Isolating Earbuds Style Headphones, which I also think sound great. Unlike the JBuds, the Moonrocks have a pause switch on the wire: someone's talking to you, and click the button rather than fiddling with your music player. That's very convenient, and it worked fine with my iPod. It did not work, however, with my Kindle Fire. I tried it both while using Amazon's Cloud Player to listen to music and while watching an Amazon Instant Video. Perhaps it would work on the Fire in other apps.Another nice feature of the Moonrocks is that the ear plugs come with two different accent colors--red and white. You could use the same color for both ears if you want, but if you don't, you can color-code it so that you can easily tell which is for which ear: red for right, for example.The Moonrocks come with a cord storage unit. You plug the ear buds into the holes of the unit and then wrap the cord around it. It's made of flexible plastic and there's an opening around the edges. It's a nice idea to include something like this for travel purposes, and its looks cool in the pictures, but I found too awkward to use, and I've stored it away with the product's packaging.All in all, very nice headphones. The case is a disappointment, however, so if that's a big selling point for you, you might want to rethink.-- Debra Hamel