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Product: Boosted Grande headphones
Price and Availability: Currently available and retailing for $70.00
Rating: 6/10
Pros: Soft, comfortable headpiece and ear cups, nice long cord.
Cons: Personally, a little big for my taste.
Overall: Would recommend.

The Boosted Grande headphones feature a 50mm driver diameter, have a 20-20KHz frequency response and a sensitivity (S.P.L.) of 106~3dB(at 1KHz). They also include a standard 3.5mm adapter, iPhone compatible 3.5mm adapter and a 1.4-inch adapter.

These headphones retail for $70 and are available in Grande (black) as well as Sherbert and Sashimi which are both bright and multi-colored. Now onto the review…

These headphones were a little strange to review, considering the fact that I am not in anyway a DJ, however I was able to put them to good use and I think I was able to offer some pretty accurate “testing.”

See, I work from home and often work when others are around, sometimes my young daughters, sometimes my wife, sometimes everyone. Given the fact that I always like to listen to music I tend to wear headphone quite often as to not affect (or offend) anyone with my music of choice.

While these are “DJ-style” headphones they are made to offer an “optimum sound from your cell phone without compromise to any other devices.” Meaning they have big, soft earpieces that swivel around and move with ease, however they also feature an inline microphone for when you are using them with your cell phone. I take that to mean they are good at multi-tasking.

These headphones allowed me to comfortably listen to music and still be able to manipulate the headphones and not have to remove them completely and still chat at a normal speaking level when people were around me. While they seemed to work well with my iPhone, the inline mic was acceptable to people on the receiving end, I avoided walking around my neighborhood with them as to not draw any added attention to myself. Personally I felt they were a little big for outside wear, but to each their own.

Although I would suggest that if you are like myself and used to wearing earbuds and not a big set of headphones, then jump in with caution as they take a little time to get used to, however the padded top of the headphones along with the padded ear cups did wonders to help the comfort level.

Overall these headphones offered a decent sound quality, they also offered a long cord, which came in handy when moving around my desk without having to worry as much about running out of cord. While I would recommend them, both comfort and sound wise, I would also not use them personally. Mainly they are just a little to big and bulky for my personal taste.

Keep reading for a few more “real-world” pics of the Boosted Grande headphones…

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