These Birks may be the most comfortable yet! Its comfortable too. The firmware updates arent enough and Bose should have been improving the hardware as well over the last 3 years. Return policy will make you pay for shipping that?s why I am not going to return Sure enough 2 weeks later my wife wants to put a lamp on the dresser. The embellishments are just the right amount of elegant and not gaudy. Maybe I just have abnormally small ears but they fall out after a short time. Measure your foot. It collapsed. Great in drawer organizer for spices.