It is very durable and sturdy glad I bought it A real rope instead of the flat band is preferable. The sound quality is clear crisp, great bass, mic quality is impressive and it has excellent noise cancelling. Got big hole on the toe after wearing for 2 weeks, started wearing after return window closed, not returnable. And he is a really rough kid and tends to mess his shoes up easily. Cute but thats all. The booms/pings in my game are sharp and there is no distortion whatsoever, even on the highest volume setting. Its not a hook rack that is super expensive and high quality, but it looks really nice for the money and it works great. Not fun at all. This is infuriating, as there are high quality ear buds for $80 that I could/should have just abandoned the repair order for the sake of purchasing.