I was very excited to get these earphones in the mail today, and when I went to go try them out I was very dissapointed. I plugged them into my ipod to listen to classical music and to be honest, it sounded like the orchestra was playing out of a tin can. They did sound fine for pop and rock but as for the classical, it lacked big time. If you are like me and mostly listen to classical, i would NOT reccomend these earphones. They just don't have that full, clean, and pure orchestral sound that is needed for classical listening. I'm definately going to return these and use my old earphones which are far better for classical in my opinion ($20 Philips HE-592's -- haven't found any other in-ear 'phones better than these.)