I use the Apple headphones for years every day - and every now and then breaks a cable. Normally, I buy from the Apple Store, this time on Amazon. Whether the headphones are now original or not I do not know. Audiobooks I hear so also in good quality. But if you listen to loud music, is weakening this copy. Got it right again with my old (original guaranteed) headphones tested: In my old sound is rich! And that bothers me, after all, so much so that I now order me again, but again in the Apple store, for comparison.
Then there were so earring / piercing-like things with the package. Is this some kind of dust ?? And if so, how to use the ??? I have not figured out ... what consoles me: others also did not appear :)
ADDENDUM: Now have the guaranteed-original earphone obtained from the Apple store and compared: it is absolutely no difference in the sound determine. The sound of the "old" I find but still better, hence only 4 stars. Perhaps it on the dust? :))