I'm surprised so many people get earaches from them. The headphones are very comfortable for me, but here, apparently, everything depends on the physiology. I have an oval face closer to a square and in general my head is not small, for convenience I can give them 10 out of 10. I used these headphones for work, for several hours a day sometimes, they are very comfortable, they don’t press anywhere, but they don’t hang out like poured. They have cloth ear pads, which is a plus for me personally, because. not hot. The sound is quite good. I usually listen to music / movies without headphones, so I can’t evaluate it from this side. But in terms of communication with other people, the sound suited me completely. I don’t know about the microphone either, because. I used them exclusively as headphones (I only have one 3.5 connector on my laptop, I didn’t take this into account when buying them), in general I use a separate microphone. It's a pity that they broke, in general, they were very good headphones.