Malihoo Wireless Ear Clip Headphones
- Zender Canizales
- Aug 27, 2024
- 5 min read
Updated: Jan 8
No ear piece is created equal, and no one earphones ever fit the same. Allow me to describe how they fit, look, feel and sound during an 6 hour use.
Personally, I have always had a problem with earphones hurting my ears. No matter how they fit over, on or in my ears, they always end up hurting. This is where I believe these wireless ear clips differ from others. They eventually do hurt my ears, after like 6 hours on my ears, but during the first few hours they are comfortable, don't fall out and give good sound.
FIT:
These wireless Ear pieces fit in a way that feel loose, yet they do exactly how they are labeled; they clip on to the Cartilage of your ear like a press on earring. It does not hurt when you slip them on and the speaker side of the piece rests on the large divot of your ear. You can shake your head and it wont fly off. You can also swivel the back side of the clip in order to fit better.
LOOK:
Honestly, these wireless Ear pieces are somewhat of a SciFi style of look. 2 bulbs that glide over your middle ear in order to project sound in to your ear, and don't look bulky or stick out to far to be awkward. the color can be a matte black, or some come with different accent colors to match your daily outfits.
FEEL:
This is one of 2 of the most honest parts of this review. I have a slight problem with sensory issues. particularly around my ears. Some earphones are hard to wear because I tend to get these small muscle contractions where it seems my ears and head are trying to push the ear pieces off and away from the area. This also happens if I try to gauge my ear lobes, to the point that I just don't wear any earrings anymore. Now during these annoying ticks, most in-ear sets tend to fall off and "some" over the ear sets start to feel heavy and hot and I have to take them off.
These wireless Ear pieces still cause my sensory ticks, but the difference is that they do not fall off. To the point that I eventually forget that I have them on and my ticks stop. The only time I do realize that I have them is about the 6 to 6 1/2 hour mark. At this point it's when my left ear begins to hurt around the cartilage area where the clips sits on, for some reason my right ear does not hurt. It is a good resting point anyway, and I just put them in their charger and let them recharge and allow my ears to rest.
Besides that particular personal issue, they are almost ghost like sitting on your ears.
SOUND:
This is the second Honest portion; If you are looking for wireless Ear pieces to use for work phone calls, personal phone calls or to answer phone call when your busy doing things around the house, then by all means get some of these. The sound is amazing during phone calls, in-fact, my wife is partially deaf in one ear, and these help her to hear calls with both ears, much like a hearing-aid.
BUT, the nasty big but, if you are wanting to use these to listen to music, videos, podcasts or other similar type of sounds, then I would not recommend these. I am personally use to ear pieces projecting excellent high ends, mid ranges and low/base tone. These do give good highs and some mids, but will not satisfy the base and lows most of us love. you can try and adjust the pieces to slide closer to you ear canal and get a few seconds of all around sound, but because they are designed to only clip on you ear they will slide back away from your canal and you will lose the deep sounds. These were designed to project the sound towards your ear and even use cartilage/bone resonation to project sound. Another BUT; if you don't mind the technical sound values that a few people look for, and you are looking for stylish, comfort, accessibility and clean sound, then these wireless Ear pieces would definitely work for you.
LIFESTYLE FIT:
I will use my own experience in hope that one of these will fit your needs;
As a Realtor, I do quite a bit of walking. Whether its to and from meetings, but also around all different types of properties. Commercial office buildings, Apartment complexes, Single family houses and vacant land, all of which I usually have clients and other people around me. And sometimes I have a business partner or client that could not make it in person so they call in order to at least hear the conversations. These are perfect to be able to talk to both the in person people and be able to hear the ones on the phone. If you need them for business, these will work out in any scenario.
As a Gamer, well that is a different story and it depends on when you will use them. If I am streaming a game then I need a set of OneOdio A71 Hi-Res Studio Recording Headphones, which are much better for streaming, But if I am not streaming and I need to be able to listen for phone calls as well as the sounds of the game, then I use the wireless Ear pieces. I am able to talk to people on the phone and still play, shop or browse the Internet Webs.
As an Artist I need to have music to help me relax enough to do my art. And because I am in to a wide variety of musical genres which I need to have at high volumes without disturbing the office or my household, I use these wireless Ear pieces in order to be able to get my groove on and get my Art on as well. Even though the quality is not as good as the over the ear style of earphones, it is good enough to get me through my art sessions.
Update as of 01/07/2025:
This one has been the biggest disappointing purchase I have made. Having ADHD, I have some ticks that I can not avoid and should take in to consideration for the future. So, for those with Autism or a form of ADHD be aware, these may involuntarily trigger some ticks.
When I wear these, my nerves figure that they do not belong and cause my ears to move back and forth. which slowly and eventually cause the ear pieces to fall out. When I first put them on I can shake my head and they don't move, but after some minutes have past, they are lose enough to slip out.
The other downside is that when they are slipping off slowly, the quality of the sound lessens. These issues maybe isolated with me, but I know there are others with sensory issues which is why I make this claim. over all very good, just not for someone with, again, sensory issues.





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