Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I bought these headphones to replace a set of JVC headphones that I bought at Costco seven years ago. I assumed that the technology would have gotten bette in the years since I bought the JVC, and I wanted to upgrade. After using these for two days, I'm sending them back. There are two things that are just downright annoying about the headphones that make them far worse than the 7-year old unit I was using before. 1. There's no way to turn them on or off. They go on whenever you pull them off the charging stabd and they turn off whenever you put them on the stand. While this may seems like a smart way to have the headphones work, its not. The reason? There's no way to stop charging the unit once the battery is full without turning it on and draining the batteries. Leaving a unit on the charger all the time is a sure fire way to ruin the batteries, and Sony makes sure that you have to buy their replacement batteries by using proprietary batteries in the headphones. 2. Its very difficult to put the unit into the base so that the charging terminals align correctly. I assumed from the picture that the charger was inductive, but its not. And note from my discussion above, that if you don't get the charging terminals lined up correctly, the headphones will stay on and the batteries will drain. My JVC unit sounds just as good, has an on/off switch, uses standard NiMH rechargeable batteries, and uses a charging cord that's easy to plug in.