These headphones look fabulous and feel as well. Everything is covered in matte black (if you ordered this color variation) and feels rubberized. The Kevlar reinforced cable makes a very high-quality impression. The sound of these headphones is absolutely top notch. Bass, middle and treble are reproduced exactly as you would expect. Contrary to some Mitrezensenten I have to say that the bass are very much present and sound excellent. However, you are not totally over the top like some other headphones. The stage has failed not very wide at this Inears, but this is more than compensated by the positive properties mentioned. For comparison, I have received a Sennheiser IE 8i, which has a very wide stage, but due to the very strong highlighted basses almost muffled sounds against this here - not to mention the non-setting of the hand price differential. The only shortcoming of the headset, however, is that he is not overly comfortable (to my ears). I'll probably buy myself the custom fit eartips. For this Inears can be made to fit all ears. All in all I'm talking about a recommendation, if one may be willing to pay an additional 100 to can make the custom fit eartips. By the way you can on the iPhone yet set an app that uses the built-in microphone to "pass" to the headphones outside noise, which could be recommended in the traffic.