Sennheiser HD 555 Consumer Headphones

I bought these as replacements for an old set of Nakamichi SP-7's. The price was right and I read _many_ reviews that spoke highly of these. I have two minor complaints with them. The first regards the sound quality, they lean toward tinny with music filled with lots of percussion, not to the point of annoying but if your music of choice has lots of cymbols and snare drum, be prepared for these sounds to come through heavily. A graphic equalizer can eliminate most of this but if MP-3 is your music recording of choice on an IPod, there's not much you can do. My other complaint is that they are made in China. I would have been happy to pay more for the same set made in Germany and I don't have any quality complaints, just another item that has been sent to China to try to keep the price down. But for the money, these open-air 'phones are well worth the price.