Yes, the headband above is a little hard, I agree with the Mitrezensenten right, especially if you are on the head hardly hair has, like me. Over time it is but soft and you can slightly "knead".
The sound is well balanced, linear, transparent, the headphones is quite noisy, the efficiency is very good and so you can also connect it to a sound card or MP3 player operate.
Although a headphone amplifier is never wrong, but is not absolutely necessary, unless you want it right crisp loud and take have hearing loss so willingly accepted.
If I could convince you, give yourselves the HD 598, I wish you much fun with it, a more noble headphones with good sound so I can find nowhere else.
