HD-681 Evo BK : Not very comfortable

I purchased these to replace a failing set of Sony mdr-cd480.

I use them for listening to music during work hours, so they are on my head for the most part of an 8 hour day. As such, comfort is very important to me.

Unfortunately, they are not as comfortable as my old Sony's.

- The ear cups are not very spacious, and rub my relatively large ears. The felt earpads do fit better.

- The head band has no elasticity or stretch, making it dig into my head, which over long hours becomes quite uncomfortable.

Sound wise, compared to the Sony's they are in a different class. Amazing clarity and detail, and a load of bass.

The drawbacks to the sound were:

- Too much bass, i.e. on bassy tunes I would sometimes have to take them off due to discomfort.

- Too much detail, basically makes listening to poor quality music sound terrible, i.e. they emphasize crackling and hissing.

- Relatively low volume.

On other issues:

- They make a nasty clicking noise when you take them off, as if they are about to break

- There's not much external sound let in, but enough to hear your name called.

- Unfortunately mine failed after a few months (bad contact in left ear).

Overall they do sound really great, but nothing more.