These over the ear phones hit YouTube reviewers in late 2014 and recently they crossed my path for fifty pounds at MorganComputers, which is less than half the original retail price, so I took a punt. The next day I saw them on Amazon for forty. *sigh* As usual, these are made in China but designed and controlled by a Western company, in this case British based Otone. In our modern days of the brand conscious, the UK seems to have a small history of creating headphones that appear and then sink without trace before I even knew they existed. Musical...

It all started with the detection of a bit of noise, which I thought was just some ground/earthing issue, so I continued using it. Also threw away some GE valves because I thought that they were at fault.   Later on, I wanted to test it out a bit further, so ran my test tracks, one of which is the start of a Status Quo track which plays, "There's nothing left," on the right side, followed by, "There's nothing right," on the left side... and back and forth a little. Well, guess what... the P2-1 was wired the wrong way!   On taking it apart to see...