Cambridge Audio Melomania P100

Pros

• Anecdotal but I have a very low tolerance for that walking ANC popping noise - it's why I rarely use my Bathys - and the Melomania P100 is probably one of the best ANC headphones for avoiding that issue.
• The sound is great, everything else about the quality appears sub-par. In that sense I regret switching over from Sony headphones to these ...

Cons

• They creak and groan even after 2 years of regular use. When I first started using them I thought those would be growing pains, that the casing had to settle, but after 2 years of using them daily the problem remains unchanged. Little so...
• And I cannot use either ANC or ambient while walking around, because it makes weird ... well ... hard to describe what it sounds like, but I'd call them "suction sounds". As though the ANC/ambient creates a low pressure in the cups and w...
• That they start causing strong headaches because the headband is too uncomfortable after wearing them for a while has also been reported by others already and is something that they addressed in the new SE version
• They also appear to almost at random set the starting settings of ANC/ambient/normal. For a time it will be one, then for a while it will be the next. That is just another little inconvience.
• The auto-turn off feature is just straight up broken. If left on without playing anything it turns off after the specified time, but then turns back on 2 seconds later on its own, reconnects to my phone *and* then starts the music on its...