I also keep the HD280 on my office desk. I love them. They do a pretty great job at attenuating noise. I have taken them on planes and it’s enough to put them o

I also keep the HD280 on my office desk. I love them. They do a pretty great job at attenuating noise. I have taken them on planes and it’s enough to put them on without music if I want to sleep. They are in fact really comfortable, but I do prefer them without glasses. My head starts to hurt after about an hour or so with my glasses on, especially if I’m wearing larger rims. But I think that any decent closed back set of cans is going to have that problem as they need to grip your head to make the seal. It appears to be a pretty common consensus in headphone circles (read:head-fi) that Beats/Bose are decent quality but terrible value for $$$ (for instance, you’ll get better frequency roll off on the HD280’s we are discussing vs a set of Beats that often retail for 2.5x the price). Occasionally you’ll read someone on the internet saying Bose or Beats are crap; they really aren’t unless you’re speaking purely in terms of what you get for how much you spend.