... After about 5 weeks is one of the cable amplifier on in-ear broken off and from then on always chattering on the cord up and down slipped. Guess it must have been a production error, I have in any case always used very carefully. Now for the sound: the sound was absulut Top, a lot better than I would expect in this price range, they were almost as good as my old, 50 euro expensive Sennheiser that they should replace after this by a nearly 2-year-olds service but then showed signs of wear and there the cable reinforcing the plug beautifully slowly adopted ... All in all I was very satisfied Moderately sound when would just not have been the cable ... Unfortunately, they wanted me not to exchange the headphones, but only to take back kene idea why, therefore, I have decided, following the Phillips SHE8000 .. ,