Ultrasone headphones are getting a lot of attention all over the internet due to probably very good marketing efforts. Before buying it for some reason I thought that I will be getting one of the best headphones on the planet in the price range.   After having it for a month or so and having at least 175 hours of burn in on them I still can't decide if I like them or not. If I had to describe sound signature of this headphone I would use one word: aggressive. It seems to attack your ears with very powerful bass and extremely bright high...

First of all I'd like to say that I listened to many headphones before getting this one and I own quite a few as you can see in my profile. I was looking for an ideal portable headphone and everytime I was unhappy about something. Here is what I went through: iGrado: good sound, but not comfortable, cheap looks, Beyerdynamic T50p: too expensive and still below DENON performance on my opinion, Grado SR 225: harsh, tiring, not very comfortable, virtually no isolation due to open nature with great sound though. Ultrasone HFI 780, not comfortable, too...

This is very cheap headphone so I didn't expect much from it and I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised. The design is great, its extremely light, super comfortable on the ears, you literally don't feel it.For $40 dollars Philips couldn't afford to spent a lot on the material, so the headphone is all plastic with thin cable which is obviously a weak spot. The cable is 2 meters long and comes with adapter (not gold plated)   Sound:   Bass: even compared to very expensive headphones I would rank it very high, the bass is soft, very well...