Apple EarPods (2016) vs Sennheiser CX Sport

The Apple EarPods (2016) makes for a good, if unremarkable, Earphone for people with a $17 budget.

The Sennheiser CX Sport, however, is merely mediocre at its $121 asking price, when compared to similarly priced products, and won't satisfy the needs of most people.

In either case, we suggest that you first take a look at some other options at the $17 and $85 price points before committing to one of these - it's likely that you'll be able to find some better alternatives.

If you're still interested in learning more about the Apple EarPods (2016) and Sennheiser CX Sport, however, we wrote a summary of what we could find about them:

Two highly trusted sources that perform well-thought-out in-depth testing consider the Apple EarPods (2016) to be a great product - it earned the "Best for most people" title from SoundGuys and "Best Wired Apple Earphones" from Rtings in their respective Earphone roundups, which is a good indication of it being a notable product.

Moving on to the Sennheiser CX Sport: it was unable to reach the very top of any roundups from sources that conduct reliable and unbiased testing. Nonetheless, it still managed to impress reviewers from a number of such sites, like Techradar, What Hi-Fi?, PCmag, Reviewed, and Wirecutter (NYTimes), enough for them to include them on those lists.

Out of the sources that tested and rated both of these Earphones, PCmag preferred the Apple EarPods (2016), whereas reviewers at Techradar and Digitaltrends liked the Sennheiser CX Sport better. What Hi-Fi? gave them identical review scores.

We also took a look at which sources liked these products best - the highest Apple EarPods (2016) rating came from What Hi-Fi?, whereas the Sennheiser CX Sport most impressed reviewers at Gadget Review; they earned scores of 8 and 9.1, respectively.

Lastly, in order to better compare them to the rest of their competition, we averaged out their review scores. The Sennheiser CX Sport managed to get 7.7 out of 10 - considerably better than the 7.3 review average of Earphones in general - whereas the Apple EarPods (2016) earned 6.6 points.

It should be said that doing a direct Apple EarPods (2016) vs. Sennheiser CX Sport comparison might not be entirely fair due to the difference in their prices - some sources don't put much weight on value for money and thus tend to give better review scores to more expensive products.