To find headphones with a balanced, pleasant timbre, today is no longer so easy. Many tend to such extreme lows that the rest of the range is covered and the music sounds just washed. The Philips SHO9560 contrast, can boast a quite pleasant sound. The bass is punchy, but not allüberdeckend. The centers would I described as solid, but lacks "medium altitude", so that the presence suffers a bit. The "Detailed display quality" (as I call it now once; trying to say that I have details in the arrangement seen with this headset with some songs that I have not yet heard about regular speakers or other headphones) and the stereo width on the other hand are excellent. The SHO9560 suitable in this respect so already for high demands. For MP3 files, but the compression losses are then sometimes have to hear who are in more favorable headphones so unnoticeable. A nice, warm, detailed sound arose with me on the stereo system with CD's and also in records. Particularly worth highlighting are the optics, the feel and the quality of workmanship. This alone textilumwobene cable is chic! I also like that you can disconnect the cable by means of an extra plug-in connection from the headset. The padding feels very soft and pleasant to the ears. The sound insulation of external noise is very good (and also the other way around: in addition to parties get nothing from my music). Finally I find the headphones for good, because of the small blemishes in the sound but (when representing the middle) I draw from a star.