Ear buds for running

I enjoy listening to music a lot. Most times the only way achieve an undisturbed listening experience is only with ear phones of all sorts. I have and have had several pairs of open and closed phones from brands such as AKG, Sennheiser, Sony or Pioneer. Saying this I want to say that I have a lot of experience of excellent sound quality which brings up the next subject:

Can you expect good sound quality when running? Short answer: no. The long answer consists of several factors.

I tried out a properly fitting good sounding ear plug type phones for a few times. During these times it was the mechanical sound from the feet running along the chords and body translating into a thump at each foot stride. Eventually this was self eliminated By the plug coming out loose due to the movement of the chord. An additional draw back is the noise isolation which I don't want when running.

The next choice was an old pair of 90s style ear buds. With these there is no bass to speak off under 200 Hz region, other than that te sound is decent. You can hear when something or someone is approaching you from behind. The drawback with these is that they keep falling out from place as you run.

Thus the purchase of a new pair of ear buds with hangers. These are Pioneer SE-E11 open air dynamic headphones as they call them. I found hardly any reviews for these so I decided to say a couple of words on these. The good thing is that they feel comfortable to the ear and stay in place while running. These are lacking in bass as the other ear bud type of headphones most often are. The chord mad a slight thumping noise when using these under a mit. Pricewise they are on the cheap side costing 17€.

To sum it up, I am quite happy with a cheap pair of ear bud with hanger type headphones for running. I would not justify buying an expensive pair as they would block out the background noise vital in this application.