God—I’m so angry with these dolts panning the Sennheiser CX 300-II’s. They are some of the best headphones you can buy—price a non factor. The bass isn’t too loud—you just have been listening to bad headphones so long you don’t even know what accurate sounding headphones sound like! When tested, they are far superior to the in-ear iPod headphones—almost better than the Klipsch Image X10i’s (and they are £230-ish!). God—it’s like people liking Radiohead. They have listened to shit for so long when they hear something like the Beatles they feel angry at themselves for not realising Radiohead are shit sooner—but won’t admit it… *phew rant over! :p