My SR-80s have what many reviewers (and I) say is the best sound for anything under $1k (and these were under $100). That said, they're poorly designed mechani

My SR-80s have what many reviewers (and I) say is the best sound for anything under $1k (and these were under $100). That said, they're poorly designed mechanically, and they use lower quality materials - especially the type of plastic. The way the speaker unit attaches to the head piece is just a little pole of metal (textured at the end) stuck into a plastic hole, and the hole can eventually stretch. The result is the speaker unit falling off the headpiece... and there's really no way to fix it. Superglue is a short term solution, and it's hard to get the angle of the can perfect. My point of saying all this is that the sound engineers did a great, great job, but the product/mechanical design guys - or maybe the production guys after them, ruined it.