Have never written a review in my life but after reading hundreds of others before buying some phones to listen to music from my blackberry, I just needed to say how good these are. Having owned many sets of quality headphones including my current full size for the home HIFI I have to say that these are "the dogs". I spent days reading lots of reviews which tended to be contradicting and confusing. I must just say that forget all the reviews that say that the p100s sound much better because HERE IS A NEWS FLASH PEOPLE...they are open headphones and any open headphones will always sound better than closed ones, even if they cost £200+. Open headphones are no good if you want your music to be private as their design allows the sound out through the vents at the back which tends to upset the people on the bus/train! So these closed p200 IIs sound fantastic, they sound as good as my full size phones but the difference is that they sound that good as soon as I unpacked them, my full size needed 2 days burning in before they started to sound this good. I wonder what these babies will sound like after a few days use, they will just get better. Build quality is superb, the ear pads are really soft and comfortable, they do not leak any sound and almost block outside noise as good as noise cancelling headphones. They fold like spectacles and go in the supplied cloth bag. The volume control works great and is a welcome addition so that you do not have to keeping reaching for your music player when you need more or less volume. For all the BASS HEADS out there, considering they are not even burnt in yet the bass is pretty damn good, as deep as my full sizers. As a last point, I bought the white ones and they just look so cool, pure quality. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED HEADPHONES.