Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I was in Best Buy for two hours trying to figure out which headphones to buy. I needed to buy them prior to a trip to Australia (17 hour flight) where I would working long hours in a data center. Noise cancellation was at the top of my list to cancel out both aircraft engines and the whine of thousands of servers. I brought my iPhone and listened to everything. Beats, Skull, Sony, Bose, JBL, and others. I started at the high end and worked my way down. There was a huge difference in sound quality between the high end and low end of all the brands but I also found that the top of the line Sony headphones sounded as good as the $400+ Bose and Beats headphones. I debated for a long time on buying these or their non-bluetooth headphone equivalent and decided in the end that I wanted the bluetooth. After traveling around the world flying in all kinds of aircraft and working in data centers for the past month here are my findings. The Good points... 1) Sound quality is outstanding. Either the high end beats and Bose are over priced, or Sony is undercharging for these. 2) Noise Canceling is not needed. These cancel noise better than most headphones that are marketed with noise canceling. You can't here anything going on with these on. When you put them on you can't hear the engines of an airplane and even the roar of the DC becomes a faint back ground noise. Its far better than the noise canceling gear I've had in the past. 3) Using them as a headset to make phone calls works very well 4) Battery life is insanely good. I charge them every night and get a 10 hour work day in. They haven't died on me yet 5) The volume, track, and call answer controls are great. Once you start using them you realize just how we they are placed. 6) They are built solid out of metal and higher quality plastics. 7) Ear Cushions are VERY comfortable for long term wear 8) Very good to work in a DC with. You can stream iTunes from a Mac and walk 35-60 feet away from the mac and still get the stream. 9) Awesome for cube life if you want to tune out your coworkers but still want to here if you have a new email. I have a stand up desk so no wires makes sense. The Bad 1) If you were looking for non-noise canceling headphones these are not it. They block out all sound to the point where I would never consider wearing these walking down the street. You can't hear anything. If these headphones had noise canceling printed on the box it would be technically untrue, but effectively truthful. 2) They can get warm if you don't have a climate controlled place where you are wearing them. There is no breathing on these like a foam cushion would have. However for an office environment they are great. 3) They do no fully fold, but they do pivot which is good enough for me. The headphones would probably be weaker if they can fold. They were definitely more stout than the Beats and Bose models that could fold. I would wager they will last longer than folding ones as long as they are transported correctly. 4) Wall charger would have been nice, but I just use an old blackberry charger and it works fine. 5) No carrying case --- probably because they don't fold...