Well it's just an honest opinion. I've lurked for a while, I just joined to make a specific thread about a particular topic.

My main use for earphones is to listen to audio books while on the bus or walking down noisy streets of cars with superchargers, or the supermarket with screaming kids, store announcements and shopping muzak.   So super hi fi quality where I can discern the precise timbre of a triangle as...

I recently bought a pair of xba-30 which I presume have the same earpieces and I can say that they are incredibly uncomfortable. The headphones themselves in sound quality are not very much better than a pair of phillips she9550. To get a decent fit I need to jam the headphones in so much that...