Here you get what you expect for your money. In terms of wearing comfort, quality of the materials and processing itself, there are the highest grade. The sound is excellent and up to the highest frequencies practically no distortion. The outside noise insulation could be better and the Abstrahlverhalt less outward. That's just the disadvantage of open design. I would recommend these headphones highly enough, except your wife wants to read a book on the couch and you listen to music with pod for higher volume next to you.