OK... so this headphone thread got my rusty, in-need-of-lube, cranial cogs to ka-chunk forward at least one sprocket and I realized my faithful portable Senns had gone missing. So I ordered a pair of these which were delivered yesterday... broke them out today around the yard (via iPhone 4 + Pandora) as I was retracting halloween props and replacing them with an xmas light fantasia that would make Jack Skellington's bones ache (not really, but I did dress up a few trees and a fence)... anywho, these things are brilliant (for portables) for the money. Great bass, sincere mids, and plenty of highs for these ~50 yr old eardrums. And I love the comfort level. I'm not much for headphones as stated earlier, but I was a bad-ass dad-ass in the yard today - soakin' in the low-angled sunshine to Nat, Frank, Bing, and that whole era that I never actually lived in. Wonderful time!