[Meloncoly]

Yeah. Another choice that most people swing for when going portably, would be the RP21s from Equation Audio, but I think they look too funky, and the Audio Technica ATH-ES7, which I would turn schizophrenic about keeping it scratch free. The HD25 is great as a portable, and that's what I use when I go portably, moreso than my Sleek SA6. It's durable, it's rugged, it's light, it isolates really well, even with teh velour pads, and it just works for a portable application. Hope you like the sound signature too, cause you're buying a great phone. Another option being, in the future, get a HD650 cable from Sennheiser and ask somoene on the forum to reterminate it for you to a mini plug. The cable makes the bass much more sharp and accurate, and clears up a lot of the "muddiness" people say the phone has. It just made it a cleaner experience for me, and I personally think it's a good upgrade down the road. You could purchase the higher end cables, but I don't feel that investing on a cable that's worth as much as your headphones in a portable application, where there is introduction of outside noise, and only having a headphone out on a source, would merit that purchase. Please do chime in when you get your headphone and compare them to something you have heard as I did. Might help prospective buyers ^_^