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albero23

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MX550 are definitely better in many ways, I would say, though it depends on your listening habits. The 500s are brighter, easier to drive being more sensitive, and have lower impedence, and so go quite a bit louder than the 500's. This is quite important with Sony gear, which genrally have quite a weak output strength...

The MX500 sound darker and more bassy, though there are probably better earphones out there if you like rock/pop with a lot of bass. The MX550 are more suited to jazz/classical etc, but sound very good with popular music too. Having tried both, the MX550 wins hands down any day..

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Have some MX500 for my laptop mainly because of their volume control. They have a reasonably good sound but are not the most comfortable earphones around and easily fall out. The standard Sony earphones are more comfortable but don't seem to sound as good.

I saw a review where the MX550 have a superior sound to MX500 and are likened to the CX300 without the sound isolation aspects.

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