When they add "passive noise cancellation" and "high end styling" to the description you know its not good.

Ah, thats exactly the type of thing im looking for. Thank you!

I dont want to start a complete new thread seeing as this one is kinda relevant. But does anyone know any alternatives to the Digizoid amp because i cant find anywhere to buy one.

Well i bought the K81DJ to wear around campus and on the cycles into university. I listen to mostly electronic music, so they are quite good with a lot of bass, they dont do as well with other genres though. Another plus is that they do isolate quite well and are easily driven by my ipod...

Would an amplifier really be necessary? I want to keep as portable as possible and i know the e5 is small, but it still adds something extra to carry around. And would it really be worth the extra 20 euro to make the jump from 428 to 448? 

So i only started using reasonably good headphones within the last year, so im still rather inexperienced. At the moment i use Sennheiser HD 238 Precision cans for out and about and around campus. The problem is they leak noise a lot being open and supra-aural and all and i think its time to get...