Can you name some examples? I spent around 35 GBP for mine (though for new in Japan they cost around 9800 yen/58 GBP, so let's just go with that instead). If you can name me another portable-type headphone that is both less than that amount and sounds better to you -- yet is just as compact...

I recently got one of these a few days ago for quite a discount while I was in akihabara's E-Earphone shop (6000 yen and only lightly used :D ). I must say, they really are the classiest-looking & most understated portable headphones I've ever seen -- even when comparing them to the rest of the...