The best test is how well do they cancel noise and sound when I am mowing my lawn with my loud push lawn mower, and overall, they are decent when mowing the lawn. Really quite cool to hear my music as well as my surrounding so quickly that she ended up giving birth on our bed in the presence of EMTs. I would also like the unit to be about 2-3 inches wider. and they do! The stands are heavy. After only one day with the stock pads my Brainwavz already arrived so I switched immediately. So you will have to back it up and try again, and again, and again, you get the picture. Did arrive with a small indent on the side of it (fingerprint size). The 1xl b&t was slimmer fitting while being a little longer as Im 6.