OneOdio Pro-30 Over Ear Headphone, Wired Premium Stereo Sound Headsets with 50mm Driver, Foldable Comfortable Headphones with Protein Earmuffs and Shareport for Recording Monitoring Podcast PC

Bought these near the beginning of COVID quarantine (oh, joy) because I was working from home and doing lots of Zoom with the rest of the industrialized world. I needed something with decent isolation to have some privacy and focus in my "home office" which is also my bedroom--my wife also has a workspace in the bedroom. You get the picture.I'm very impressed with the comfort of these. I wear glasses and many over-ear or on-ear headphones cause pain within twenty or so minutes by pressing my ears back against my glasses. That is not an issue with these cans. They can be worn for LONG periods with no discomfort at all. The pads are nice and thick, but I have had no problems with sweating even when it was 78 degrees in our bedroom during the Phoenix summer.An outstanding feature is the 1/4" AND 3.5mm connectors on either ear. I have both 3.5mm equipment as well as 1/4" because I'm using both laptop audio jacks as well as USB recording interfaces. Having the ability to switch between them with one cable--just reversing the cable--is a brilliant bit of design. Love this feature. The cable is disposable, so I'm not worried about replacing it--easy and cheap. However, I do worry about long-term reliability of the jacks on the phones themselves. I try not to switch the cable very often.Sound quality is great for me. I have pretty severe hearing loss in my right ear in the middle frequencies (500Hz-4kHz), so audio always a problem for me, but not because of these phones (oddly enough, I do audio signal processing for a living). For music, my brain fills in the gaps effectively and I have no complaints at all.The only niggle I have is that because they fold up for storage and travel (a nice feature) plus have a DJ-style swivel to use only one ear easily, the ears can flip over and I have to figure out which way is up. This happens fairly often, even when just setting them down on the desk. I have to look at which side the audio jacks are on and get those pointing down. Not a big deal, just a minor annoyance. Not anything that takes away from the joy of using them since the other features and quality are excellent.Truly the best feature, though, is that with the dual cable, you can connect one side to the other in a loop and have INFINITE MUSICS. I can just get some music going into the headphones, and if I'm fast enough, I can connect both ears together with the cable and have music all day. Such a nice bonus.

I'm really happy with these earphones--I have a big head and sensitive ears and these have large, soft pads around the earpieces, adjustable heights for each ear, and you can rotate each earphone out if you need to be able to listen to you surroundings as well as the headphone input. They also have a detachable wire so if the wire gets cracked over time you can replace it without sacrificing the earpieces. The sound quality is excellent and immersive. They won't completely block outside sounds (conversations with the headphones on are muffled) but I think that is a good thing. Eventually the pleather covering will crack, but leather covers would make the price much higher. Would buy again.

Let's face it my audiophile and/or sound enthusiast Homies, there are lots of inexpensive headphones out there of all types, and to be honest, if you do your homework, you can find quite a few of them that are quite satisfying. And if you can temporarily shelve that "condescending mindset about having to have higher cost audio gear" for a moment, you'll see what I'm talking about.Over the past 6 months or so, I've been on a binge of purchasing inexpensive (or relatively expensive) headphones from a variety of makers. And yes, some are - what appear to be - cheap Asian knock-offs. But some - noooo, make that quite a few - are very good in their audio qualities. Now do keep in mind that I also have more expensive Planars in my collection, but I just wanted to see what the cheaper lot had to offer.Now enter this model - generically known as the "Over Ear Headphone." It arrives in a nice box and is very, very light. I purchased the silver and brown model which has a nice rich look to it appearance-wise. Now, it's not made from titanium or any other more premium material - just lots of plastic and vinyl in this particular set of cans. After all, you're paying less than $40 USD for these, so keep your expectations real. Fit-wise, they are downright comfortable and for me, there is absolutely no need to upgrade the pads - they are plush and cover the ears perfectly. Now if your ears look the size of Walt Disney's Dumbo, then you may have issues.Now on to the sound. Now keep in mind that when I blog about and/or review audio gear, I tend to balance a variety of scenarios - mainly how much an item costs vs its performance levels. And this is a very good sounding headphone. Now, do not confuse "good" with "realistic." There are many pieces of audio gear out there that sound good (meaning pleasant), and there are fewer gear (in this case headphones) that sound stunning and realistic - and those are usually in the monitor category.I always evaluate audio gear using classical music, big band jazz, other orchestra types, conventional jazz, and Latin jazz. Why? Because the test of any audio gear is to see how it handles a variety of musical instruments, whether performing separately, or combined like in the full crescendo of a symphony orchestra or big band. Playing/evaluating headphones with hard rock or heavy metal doesn't do them justice (in my opinion of course).The Over Ear Headphone (what a dumb generic name) has a nice, rich sound quality to them which should please most listeners. Now for we audiophiles (and you know who you are), there is the feeling of having a slight veil over the music - almost as if somebody were listening to a performance seated behind a set of curtains. That is, they sound very good, but there is something missing - and that something is the lack of feeling like your being there. The music is well balanced and you can wear these headphones for a very long time without fatigue. There are some of the best cans in this price range, so keep that in mind.Now if you want to experience more of a realistic sound structure with excellent imaging, superb sound-staging, and more, add another $30 USD or so to your budget (putting you in the $60 to $80 price range) and you could do much better with the likes of the HiFiMan HE-35XS, or the Brainwavz Audio HM5, or the OKCSC-Zx-1 (with mods). Those 3 headphones render superb soundstaging, accurate instrument timbres, excellent image placement, hall ambience, and more!In the end, I'd have to say that using the much heralded Philips SHP-9500 cans and comparing them against this "Over the Ear" set of headphones, I prefer the Philips hands down. But again, if you're in the price range that these cans run for, you can't go wrong - plus they're very comfortable.