If youre a Pink Floyd fan, you will love this gig. I believe it may have about the best shipping protection Ive ever seen: Top and bottom caps and side protectors made of decent gage sheet metal plus front and back protection with very dense non-corregated cardboard (will definitely save and repurpose all of these) all of this inside standard corregated cardboard box. Some may find the price to be somewhat high for a casual shoe, but trust me, they are worth every cent. well! Battery Life: You wont be able to kill them unless you are listening long term on a transatlantic flight, and even then they recharge pretty quickly so youll have more than enough charge to not be without music for more than about an hour the whole way. I got this for my mother and she is very pleased with the fit and quality. It was pretty slick, but didn?t get that deep gloss shine. I compare the earhooks to if you put a piece of yarn and tried to hold your earbuds on the ear. The only lightning port extender I have did not work as it prevented this device from powering up for some reason. I received the box super fast even tho the tracking said it should arrive in 2 weeks.