They almost look factory. But they do have a soul on them that looks like you could run to the store and then, but I wouldnt suggest that the soul was really good for walking around at any links outside. It seems to be tuned in a way where the low-mids are not very present but at low volumes I just used an eq app on my phone to roll back the highs a bit to compensate. This meant I couldn?t tighten them where they didn?t slip on my heel. Easy to plug n play on Windows 10 with no administrator privileges. And I can wear them to sit outside in the mornings and the neighbors dont know Im in my jammies! I made it <30m my first three days because they were very uncomfortable to wear. Extremely disappointing. I think that because of poor protection packaging is the reason why one of the earbuds arrived broken. I have owned 4 pair of these exact reef flip flops over the past 10 years, but reef has changed 2 things.