The sound quality is well balanced with smooth bass and treble without overdoing the bass. Since theyre slip-ons, you wouldnt want to wear them on any kind of challenging terrain, but for paved and level gravel paths theyre great. The beauty of one charging stand, one cord, one plug has been truly lovely. But it is a bit harder to do the triple press for skipping songs. I think it was a bad solder connection, and as Im not equipped to do soldering, Im ordering anothet set of earphones. Theyre reasonably comfortable but if you wear glasses (as I do) any over ear headphone will cause discomfort after a while. They do make a funny sound when you walk on certain types of floors because of the ribs at the bottom but that?s not a problem for me. That being said, if you pull the dress tight against your body, you can see the color and panty line through the fabric, but as I said, I had to pull it tight to see that. Was disappointed in these because I absolutely loved the ATH-MSR7s and love my WS-1000is. He isn?t into tech issues or troubleshooting so this was very hard for me to fix or understand since only he heard this noise.