I bought these headphones to replace my Bose ear buds. My primary use was with an ipod touch listening to music while working out. This set fits snugly in my ears and give me good sound quality. In addition, this set has a controls to change the volume or the track I'm listening to on the cable right around shirt collar level. I never have to pull out my ipod to change tracks or adjust volume. I now use them when playing guitar or listening to a track I laid down. And they've been more sturdy than the last couple of pairs of ear buds, too. When it's time to replace these, I'll still look around, but these are now my standard.

I love these headphones, work perfectly with my iPhone 4 but I'm about to return them for the second time due to the sound being lost in one ear due to a fault near the plug. I listen to music every day and carry my iPhone in my front pants pocket. It appears that 6 to 8 weeks of this is enough to cause the cable to become defective. IF you only occasionally listen to music and keep your phone on a desk or table all the time maybe you'll get luckier than me. Great product, fragile cable. What else can I say.

So the sound in these is substantially better than similarly priced skull candy sets. I would actually put these in the same category as Beats (not quite as good, but almost half the price tag and they're really comparable in quality), only you don't have the name recognition so people walking by won't know how cool you are.

I've had these for about 6 months with no problems, but I put them in the case every time I'm not using them. These are a good deal for the price and the sound is good.