
I have been using the same old pair of Sony monitor headphones for 7 years now, in that time I have broken both adjustment pieces. If you were to take a look you would see Super Glue and Tape, a sad attempt to keep them together. I have gone through 3 pairs of apple iPod headphones (not the best) wither the cables broke or they simple died.
I started to look at headphones and ideally wanted to avoid ear buds. Since I am a bike commuter I cannot ware monitor headphones and a helmet at the same time. So I began to look at
Shure, Bose, Sennheiser and Monster for headphones. It was not new to me that Dr Dre has a set of headphones called Beats. When I compared the price of all for brands (about $160-200cnd) I found it hard to tell what would be a good fit for me. I settled on the Monster Bears for couple of reasons. I don’t need a mic which some only came in, and I wanted a cable that would not brake or get tangled (I heard it took 10 years to develop the cables).
That said, they sound great. There noise isolation is very good and when you take them out event with the volume cranked you can barely hear them.
They sound really good on my iPod and they sound even better on my harman/kardon receiver.