These headphones seem to have a large disparity in reviews with people saying they're either too bright or too dark. They're very different from the UE 6000 which to me were very very dark. At first they sounded muffled but with a good balanced sound. Eventually they opened up with the treble shining through, lots of detail, great mids. I went to some regular hiphop songs and I was surprised that the bass was toned down. These are either very well balanced or the treble is slightly forward hard to tell right now since I just came from a very bassy headphone(probably the former). I got these very cheap but their quality is very good probably on par with Momentum on ear -maybe even better(but with very different frequency signature). Definitely a steal if you can get them in the 20-30 dollar range, nothing else is going to beat them at that price.
They're relatively small profile though. Very plastic-y looking but sturdy. I'm always surprised when I see an expensive headphone with 40mm drivers and they make the earpad opening small which really cripples the sound -most of the time (some designs pull it off but it's usually depends on the earpad material and design). You can tell these have a bigger sound to give but they cannot because of this design flaw. These would probably be on par with the Denon D340's if they made the earpad opening larger. As is they are still very good headphones with an unusually well balanced sound signature -I really expected a ton of bass.
Update: After further listening these are very bass light. I admit I'm somewhat of a basshead but these are too forward in the mids and treble for me. There's nothing in the bass department. Bass is not just turned down it's impossible to tune to output crucial bass frequencies correctly. Unfortunate fatal flaw to a otherwise good quality headphone.
They're relatively small profile though. Very plastic-y looking but sturdy. I'm always surprised when I see an expensive headphone with 40mm drivers and they make the earpad opening small which really cripples the sound -most of the time (some designs pull it off but it's usually depends on the earpad material and design). You can tell these have a bigger sound to give but they cannot because of this design flaw. These would probably be on par with the Denon D340's if they made the earpad opening larger. As is they are still very good headphones with an unusually well balanced sound signature -I really expected a ton of bass.
Update: After further listening these are very bass light. I admit I'm somewhat of a basshead but these are too forward in the mids and treble for me. There's nothing in the bass department. Bass is not just turned down it's impossible to tune to output crucial bass frequencies correctly. Unfortunate fatal flaw to a otherwise good quality headphone.