Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

NO, NO, NO!!! I don't mean to be disrespectful to the other reviewers but I may be. I feel that I have to warn people about these headphones. They are disappointing! A few positives first though. The fact that they fold into a very small (and sturdy) case is a really amazing idea. Two thumbs up for that. Quality of construction is also very good. Comfort is very good even after extended wear, though not excellent. They are also very light. Their low impedance and high sensitivity allows you to comfortably drive them with any portable device. You do not need to play them only on your stereo system or with a headphone amp to get the most out them. Isolation is good for a pair of this size and price (although I would say it is just fair if my comparison was irrespective of their price). To make a long story short, sadly enough, these headphones are very good AS LONG AS YOU DON'T HAVE TO LISTEN TO MUSIC WITH THEM! In what really matter--sound quality--these headphones perform very poorly. Overall response is very dull. There is no punch. Technically, although the specs claim that they cover the full 20-20000hz range, the response in the low frequencies is really lacking and the highs are also very recessed. This leaves the midrange sounding unnaturally accentuated. Because of this, although mostly guitars, cellos, mid violins and violas, clarinets, flutes, horns, and instruments that emit sounds in the mid-frequency range sound pretty good, instruments that can go really low like bass drum, piano, different basses, tenor and baritones are extremely faint and even non-audible at times with these headphones. Instruments that can go really high (high violins, piano, cymbals, etc.) are also deemphasized. So if you are biased to listening in the mid-range, you may like these. Someone who likes to listen in the whole range as was intended by the artist/composer would be very bitterly disappointed at these headphones! If I may offer some alternatives in this price range: Sennheiser HD-212, Sennheiser PX 100, Sennheiser TD-497, Beyerdynamic DT 231, Grado SR 60 (great but not very comfortable), KOSS Porta Pro (great!); KOSS KTX Pro 1. The KOSS KTX Pro 1 are, for me, probably the headphones with the best quality-to-price ratio than ANY pair of headphones out there. In fact they easily beat most headphones in the $50-$100 range, and MANY in the $100-200 range. This in NOT an exaggeration.