Sony MDR-1AM2 Wired High-Resolution Audio Over-Ear Headphones with Built-In Remote and Microphone (Black)

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Model: MDR1AM2/B UPC: 027242908796 Item: 171382

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Sony MDR-1AM2 Wired High-Resolution Audio Over-Ear Headphones Overview

These lightweight over-the-ear headphones capture all of the details of your favorite music with style and comfort. The MDR-1AM2s feature massive custom designed 40-mm HD drivers, designed to deliver clear lifelike sound with full mids, and crisp highs. Built-in Beat Response Control enhances bottom end performance. From Abba to Zeppelin, these headphones reproduce music exactly as the artist intended. And you can enjoy music as it was meant to be heard, because these headphones are fully compatible with High-Res audio files. An in-line remote lets you access your smartphones voice controls, and the lightweight frame and pressure-relieving ear pads deliver  luxurious comfort. With a foldable design and a protective carrying pouch, these headphones are ready to go with you.

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All Your Music; Just as the Artist Intended

With advanced acoustic design and premium materials, these High-Resolution Audio headphones capture the true essence of each track – so you’ll hear music that’s closer to the original studio master. From deep bass to soaring vocals, sound stays true for an authentic listening experience thanks to a super-responsive LCP driver.

Features

  • High-Resolution Audio compatible
  • Responsive Liquid Crystal Polymer driver for clarity
  • Smartphone compatible with in-line remote mic
  • Heavyweight bass with Beat Response Control
  • Swivel ear cups for portability

Enjoy Music as the Artist Intended with High-Resolution Audio

Take your digital music collection to another level with High-Resolution Audio. By digitally capturing music at a higher rate than CD, High-Resolution Audio allows you to get closer to the original studio recording and enjoy your music just as the artist intended. 

Aluminum-Coated LCP Diaphragm for More Precision

An aluminum-coated, liquid crystal polymer diaphragm gives a more consistent and precise sound across the entire frequency range than even a conventional LCP driver. High frequencies uniquely contained in High-Resolution Audio especially benefit from the added rigidity, and energy lost during transmission to the headphone housing is more uniform, ensuring a true and authentic performance. 

Wide Frequency Response for a Full Range of Sound

The wide-band frequency range – spanning 3Hz to 100kHz – is designed for a broad variety of music styles. Such a wide frequency response ensures even advanced audio formats, which require a much larger spectrum, can be accurately reproduced without hard limits or frequency roll-off, giving your music more life and realism. 

Patterned Grill for Smooth Ultra-Highs

Grills help to protect the precision headphone diaphragm and are designed specifically for passing ultra-high frequencies without introducing ‘color’ to the sound. The grill pattern is based on a Fibonacci sequence to ensure no frequency is boosted or cut. The result is a smooth, refined sound right across the frequency range. 

Supplied Balanced-Connection Headphone Cable

A 4.4Φ balanced connection cable separates left and right sound signals completely, unlike conventional headphone cables which share a ground wire. This minimizes signal transmission loss and resulting sound deterioration, so you hear less distortion and cross-talk. 

Silver-Coated Oxygen-Free Copper

The MDR-1AM2 uses silver-coated oxygen-free copper cables, designed to minimize resistance and signal-transmission loss. The result is less sound degradation, finer detail, and smoother treble sounds. 

Patterned Grill for Smooth Ultra-Highs

Grills help to protect the precision headphone diaphragm and are designed specifically for passing ultra-high frequencies without introducing ‘color’ to the sound. The grill pattern is based on a Fibonacci sequence to ensure no frequency is boosted or cut. The result is a smooth, refined sound right across the frequency range. 

Supplied Balanced-Connection Headphone Cable

A 4.4Φ balanced connection cable separates left and right sound signals completely, unlike conventional headphone cables which share a ground wire. This minimizes signal transmission loss and resulting sound deterioration, so you hear less distortion and cross-talk. 

Super Lightweight Design for Hours of Comfort

The MDR-1AM2’s super lightweight design relieves pressure on your ears so you can listen for hours in comfort. 

Swivel Design Makes Travel Easy

Take these headphones with you anywhere. A swivel design makes them easy to store on the go. The earcups swivel flat for easy packing in a bag or slipping into the supplied pouch. 

Smartphone Compatible with In-Line Remote Mic

Stay connected to the world, even when immersed in your favorite music. Take calls on your smartphone and control your music with the in-line remote mic.

Product highlights

  • Over-ear closed-back headphones
  • Ultra lightweight and durable
  • Pressure-relieving earpads deliver all day comfort
  • Custom designed drivers deliver a clear and powerful soundstage
  • Compatible with High-Resolution Audio files
  • Built-in Beat Response Control enhances bass response
  • balanced-connection headphone cable minimizes signal loss, distortion and cross-talk
  • Frequency response: 3 - 10000 Hz
  • Weight: 6.60 lbs
  • Warranty: 1 year  – World Wide Stereo is an authorized dealer for every brand we sell
  • World Wide Stereo 60-day guarantee and expert product support

Specifications

Specifications

  • Cable type: Detachable/silver coated OFC/AP remote
  • Cable length: 1.2m
  • Diaphragm: Aluminum-coated LCP
  • Driver unit: 40mm (dome type)
  • Frequency response: 3 - 10000Hz
  • Headband: Steel
  • Headphone type: Dynamic
  • Impedance: 16Ω
  • Magnet: Neodymium
  • Plug: Gold-plated L-shaped Stereo mini, gold-plated L-shaped balance
  • Power handling capacity: 1500mW
  • Sensitivity: 98dB/mW
  • Weights: 0.41 lbs.
  • Direction of microphone: Omni-directional
  • Effective frequency of microphone: 20Hz - 20,000Hz
  • Type of microphone: Electret condenser

What's in the Box

What's in the Box:

  • MDR1AM2B Wired High-Resolution Audio Over-Ear Headphones
  • Connection cable 1.2m

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Customer Reviews for Sony MDR-1AM2 Wired High-Resolution Audio Over-Ear Headphones with Built-In Remote and Microphone (Black)

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Rated 5 out of 5
Best Sony Headset
Vor über einem Jahr kaufte ich dieses Headset für meine Sony Smartphones, um alle Audio Angelegenheiten abzuwickeln, außer Movies. Selbst für Movies ist dieses Headset sehr gut, wenn ich meinen alten Highend - Verstärker davor schalte.
August 31, 2023
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Rated 5 out of 5
Great Sony product
This product really shows Sony's great quality - as product as sound quality. I like all modern connection types like Bluetooth, but this is Classic. I want Sony never to cancel the wired sound transfer.
April 3, 2022
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Rated 4 out of 5
Excellent headphones for digital music
Love these suited to Sony Walkman NW-A35. Great detailed sharp sound dynamics well suited to digital music players. Although MDR-1A has better depth and bass for analog music. Both are great depending on your requirement.
February 7, 2022
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Rated 5 out of 5
Extremely comfortable, great sound.
I've been trying to find headphones that were comfortable and would fit my head/ears for a couple of months. Moving from the SteelSeries Arctis 5 it was hard to find something more comfortable. After 7-8 carefully selected products from Bose, SteelSeries, Logitech, etc. I decided on the Sony MDR-1AM2s for my home office. For work, I got a cheap alternative, the Cooler Master MH-751 (a surprising underdog).

These Sony MDR-1AM2 headphones far surpass the quality of any others I tried in terms of comfort and sound quality. The mic quality on the cord for these headphones is better than the boom mic on my Cooler Master / Arctis 5. I had low expectations from the mic, but it seems to filter out a lot of background noise that my other mics pick up, and I don't have to worry about rustling the cord or crinkling paper/bags near it like other headsets. I can wear these all day long and forget I have them on. They don't leak much sound, and when I have music on I can't hear a thing from anything else in the room.
July 30, 2021
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Rated 5 out of 5
Awesome headohones
I bouth them and I just love them and I will always buy Sony as best as I can.
March 9, 2021
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Rated 5 out of 5
Comfortable headphone to wear
1AM2 is very comfortable to wear, and has great sound quality.
January 9, 2021
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Rated 5 out of 5
Great features!
The sound is fantastic, crisp, and very good, I heard it every day
January 2, 2021
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Rated 5 out of 5
Great features!
The sound is fantastic, crisp, and very good, I heard it every day
January 2, 2021
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Rated 5 out of 5
Very impressed...
Purchased a year ago, so I waited before I made a review...I currently run the headphones with a Monolith Portable Headphone Amplifier with THX AAA Technology...
The sound is clear, large and powerful...I have taken the headphones on various trips, and were awesome while waiting for my flight, and while on the plane. They are comfortable and durable.
My 18 year old son likes them so much, he wants them ( mind you he currently has bass heavy BEATS By DRE PRO) he says that “the Sonys are clearer”...I think I may have gotten him to appreciate music more...nonetheless I’ve purchased the MDR-Z7M2, and I’ll review those as well...
October 22, 2020
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Rated 5 out of 5
Works straight out-of-the-box
Bought this a week ago, and they sound AMAZING.
They work well with the DAC/Amp I purchased a week earlier.

I have not used the Balanced cable that came with the headphones, as I need an adapter to plug into the Amplifier, which I have not been able to find yet. ;(
With or without the Balanced Cable they sound great and feel great too!
October 19, 2020
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Why did you choose this?
World Wide Stereo Store
want hi-res audio option- and I want to be able to watch stuff on an airplane and have to plug in to do it
Elbert R on Jan 22, 2023
want hi-res audio option- and I want to be able to watch stuff on an airplane and have to plug in to do it
Elbert R on Jan 22, 2023
Microphone is integrated in the wire or headphones themselves?
A shopper on Jun 9, 2022
  Thanks for your question. The Multi-Function button and Microphone are built-in to the unbalanced headphone cable.
What size are the inputs?
A shopper on Jun 12, 2021
  Thanks for your inquiry. The inputs are mini stereo, 3.5mm. For use in a jack adapter plugs are readily available.
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