Another problem is that to put these in the case, the telescopic band needs to be put down all the way to fit into the case. The reason I?ve only given them 4 stars. Good recordings stand out very well with these and could be used as monitor headsets, but they dont seem to have a flat enough frequency response as other monitor type headphones. One nice thing about this is that I wear glasses and they play well together compared to an over the ear headphone. Cost about half though. I used them to snowmobile in Iceland (it was a rather warm day at about 8 degrees celcius) but also wore them the entire weekend and my feet stayed dry and super warm. So you tap to get volume, pause. The medium is perfect! Some people have complained about the stability of the bench. Bought these flip flops for my 12 year old son this last spring.