They can get pretty loud, and that's great for outdoor use, i can be biking on a windy day and still hear my audiobooks or music

But i often drop the audio level down on my phone (from max) about a notch or two, this tends to make it sound a little less amplified

They keep working to improve the quality, while keeping the costs down,and with these you would certainly get your money's worth!you get very good sound quality in comfortable lightweight headphones!because of the open speaker design, you may louse some bass, but they will fit a wider variety of people's ear sizes more comfortably,and that's more important imo for sports headphones

These are no the first headphones i've tested for iansean, but there are definitely the best!it really nice to see that they're listening to the customers, if you go back and look at my reviews for older models from them,they fix a lot of the issue with each release