-Price
-Better sounding to similar priced ones
-comfortable

-Lacks midband response

Initially, they sounded overly bright. I could not listen to them for extended periods of time. But after about 1 full months use, the brightness of the phones have faded and is now very natural sounding. I think the comments about the brightness is because they havent really worn in headphones. Give it time and it will reward you.
Another first impression was that when i put them on, they warmed up my ears a little, but now ive gotten used to them and they are quiet comfortable.

Compared to the sony street gear ones which are similary priced, these sound much better. The sonys sounded very murky, like listening to mud.

The only gripe is that when listening to classical, it lacks a little. Still, its acceptable. Its still detailed and the tones are accurate. Where these really shine is in rock or pop music. Live performances sound so good through these. Voices are clear, bass is responsive. Actually, vocals are excellent. The bass while not the deepest, are still very satisfactory.

I bought these for about $70 australian, and currently, thats about $40 US dollars. For the price, they are a worthwhile set of cans. Unfortunatly, they do look a little bit ugly, but the quality of the music will make you forget that.

Bottom line is, these sound natural and clear. They are worth the money and do sound excellent. Maybe not in the class of its more expensive brothers, but a class above the average. Definately noticable. For people on a budget and not style consciese, go for these, they are well worth it with a suprising quality about it.

Similar Products Used:

various cheap ones, sony fontopia buds, sony street gear

Pretty good sound

Only pretty good sound

I have been listening to these cans for about an hour now, I don't know if there is such a thing as a break in period. They are pretty good for the $22 including shipping, but far from perfect. My office PC won't drive them very loud. There is a peak at about 1.5 - 2 KHz that often causes a shrill ringing on voices that will drive you up the wall. Also the vocals sound a little squeeky and false. The upper bass/lower midrange is a bit muddy and blurred. The range above about 5 KHz is rolled off a little too much so that you miss some of the sense of depth to the sound. So these are not really true hifi, just pretty good mid-fi. Of course, there probably isn't another $22 set of cans that are anywhere near as good so they are a good value. You can certainly get much better for more money, they don't compare at all to my AKG K240s. The K240s are a bit too conspicuous in the office for my tastes and I bought these for the office. I also bought a couple of the Senn Hd26s recently and they have a limited frequency range, but they don't have that very annoying midrange peak that causes incredible distortion. I may have to buy still another set of good phones. Stay away from Sonys, they suck.

Similar Products Used:

Other Senns, Sonys, AKG, Koss