 Buy an Intel NUC barebones PC and get a limited edition t-shirt and in-game items for Planet Side 2. Click now to learn more. So let's go back to my original unboxing of the Momentums for a moment. I called them fashion headphones and I meant that in the most derogatory possible sense and I was wrong. Honestly, it's a miracle Sennheiser talks to me at all at this point. I used a very flawed testing methodology. We all learn, I suppose. I only had about an hour with them so they weren't properly broken in and I was using what must be one of the worst audio sources in the world, which is the HTC One with the stock media player that comes with it. I had recently switched from the iPhone 4 to this one and I had no reason at the time to assume that this one would be so terrible, but I blamed it on the headphones and I was incorrect to do so. So like I said, miracle of miracles, Sennheiser reached out to me about their newer Momentum skew, which at the time I didn't realize was different, and that was less expensive and asked me to maybe take another crack at the Momentum series. So this, my friends, is the Momentum On Ear. It is available in a variety of different colors from blue to green to ivory to pink. It uses an on ear style, so that is to say it is supra aural and sits directly on your earlobe as opposed to around your ears, sealing against your head and uses all cantara materials instead of leather. So this is still considered a premium material, but obviously not to the same degree that leather is, and that's present on both the ear pads as well as the top of the headband. In terms of accessories, we see some costing down here as well. So the hard carry case that came with the original Momentums is replaced by a soft fabric carry case that honestly isn't particularly rugged, but it does have stiff boards in the front and the back, so I wouldn't expect your headphones to get completely destroyed sitting inside them. They're not rugged enough for what you're putting inside them. It comes with a couple of different cables, so one of them is just a straight connector cable, so this locking connector goes into the bottom of the headphones here, and then there's a plain three pole that goes into your media player, and then it also comes with an alternative four pole connector, so this one is a right angle connector and can be used to control audio on an iOS compatible device. So you can control volume up and down, you can skip tracks, you can pause and play tracks and all that kind of good stuff. It also comes with a little carry bag that has a drawstring. You can put it in this and then inside the hard shell, or you can just chuck it in this and throw it in your bag, which is what I think a lot of people are more likely to do, just because portability is key. It's called Momentum. Build quality hasn't been degraded from the original Momentums. Every stitch is perfect. It's got gorgeous little color shifting Sennheiser logos on either side, little Momentum badges that are perfectly attached, and none of it comes apart. They're screwed together, so they use little torque screws on the inside of the headband to hold everything together, and it really does feel, in spite of the thinness of the metal used and the light-weightness of the whole thing, very, very solid. I mean, it's even little things, like they put holes in the metal aside from the ones that slide in order to adjust the ear cups, presumably just to reduce weight. Now let's get into the somewhat tricky part, a bit of a sticking point for these for me, and that's fit and comfort, out of the box within about 10 to 15 minutes, my ears would be so tender that I could barely press on them like this. I don't tolerate super RL headphones very well, and these were not any kind of exception. With that said, the Alcantara material breathes extremely well, and they're quite comfortable in that sense, and they sound really great, so I wanted to give them a chance. After a couple weeks, they're quote-unquote special foam. They don't call it memory foam, so I don't know what kind of foam it is, but it's special foam, that's what they call it. After a couple weeks, it did start to break in. It is springier than your typical memory foam, so I kind of saw that and I went, shoot, these are going to be putting a lot of pressure on me at the start, but maybe they'll break in, and they did. This isn't the first time I've had that experience with Sennheiser. My HT555s fit like a glove, now they sucked when I first got them. The clamping force was way too tight, and that is something that you can adjust quite easily with the Momentum on ears due to the metal construction of the headband. The headband itself, actually speaking of which, is not really my favorite design either. The original Momentums are a little bit cushionier, but both of them are quite hard. It's these two somewhat hard material bands across your head, and I did find myself, rather than wearing them in a more natural position, which would be closer to the crown, I did find myself shifting them forward a little bit to get the weight distribution better, which feels a little bit more unnatural for me, but did improve the comfort dramatically. Now that I've had them well over a month, I'm able to easily wear them for a couple hours without them being uncomfortable. So, guys, if you do decide to buy them, buy them from a place with a great return policy that's like 14 days or 30 days, spend a bunch of time with them and find out if they're going to be okay for you in the longer term. Remember, I'm a bit of an outside sort of scenario. I wear earrings all the time, and that really doesn't help with super aural headphones. Now it's into listening time. I validated, with the on-ears as well, that that stock HTC One player makes them sound like junk. There are alternate solutions out there. So Power Amp is one that's quite popular because it does have a graphical EQ. However, EQ is not the be-all and end-all of making music sound better. Just, it just isn't. And I've discovered since then that Apollo is a fantastic little music player. However, it's not on the Play Store anymore, so you will have to run out and look for it. But I can no longer tell the difference between the output from my HTC One and the one from my iPhone 4. Now I can't really apologize for this because I am what I am. I didn't listen to classical music with it. I'm a top 40 listener. It's terribly mastered. It's compressed. It's this, it's that, all that stuff. I'm sorry, but I am what I am. And I believe that I'll be using these the same way that most people who buy something like this will be using them. I plug it into my phone and I listen to the kind of music I listen to. And honestly, I love them. I actually like the sound of the on-ears better than the original Momentums. And I'm not quite sure why it is, but it may have something to do with the fact that the original Momentums don't seal quite right at the bottoms of my ears. And that is an advantage of the Super RL design. It does allow them to seal against your ears very, very effectively, even if that does cause some discomfort at the beginning. So this leaves us with final thoughts. You know what? If you want something portable that looks good, the Momentum on-ears are definitely worth a look. Compared to other fashion headphones, they sound dramatically better than other ones I've heard. And I'm not saying, you know, I'm not even going to say beats are terrible because if you believe beats are terrible, you already know that you believe that. And if you don't believe they're terrible, you already know that too. So all I'm going to say is give something else a try. Go somewhere and try the original Momentums if you have a bit of a bigger budget or try the Momentum on-ears if you don't mind the Super RL design or you have a bit of a lower budget. Just give it a try because they sound so much better than many of the other solutions out there with respect to fashion headphones. With that said, you know, are they the best value in the world? Maybe not. Someone like an IEM lover, like one of our employees here, Edzel, is going to say, well, there's better values out there. They're even less bulky. They sound better. They cost less. Yes, IEMs exist. We're aware of this for the same price as sort of in the same price range as these Momentums. You can get Sennheiser IE8s, which undeniably sound better, but not everyone likes sticking things into their ears. And some people like their headphones to be a fashion accessory, which leads us to, yes, there are better values when it comes to over the ear headphones as well. But a lot of the time they don't have that same look and they don't have that same portability that something like a Momentum skew does. Not everyone wants to sit around on the bus with huge, you know, studio monitor cans on their ears. And while some people will do it, not everyone's into that. So if you're looking for a fashion statement from a knowledgeable company that actually knows a thing or two about audio, consider the Momentum on ears. Give them a try. That's all I can really say about them. I really liked them. Leave a comment with your feedback. What do you prefer? Would you rather have IEMs? You know they're going to sound great. They're going to be a great value. Would you rather have, you know, over the ear large cans and just wear those out in public at your desk wherever you happen to be? Or do you prefer a different pair of headphones for different purposes? And would you be a fashion headphone buyer? Let me know what you think. Like the video if you liked it, dislike it if you disliked it and leave a comment with the thing I said before about commenting. And as always, don't forget to subscribe.