The Momentums are the perfect pair of on-ears for the dapper man about town

Headphones, headphones, headphones. There are so many of them, and they all sound totally different. If you're planning on buying headphones, then this must surely be the worst bit - deciding which set to get.

Sound lovely; good balanced mid-range; powerful bass; never too much treble; comfortable

Expensive; won't suit audiophiles

There's no extra zero added to the price above. Yes, it is all of a quarter of a lakh Rupees. High-quality sounds come at a premium price. That might as well be true with the Sennheiser MOMENTUM headphone, which is a luxury product made using expensive materials.

Excellent performance; Superb styling; Replaceable cables; Inline remote control

Earpads can be too small for ears; Expensive

Paying Rs 25,000 seems a bit obscene for a headphone, but if you are an audio nut then an amount four times more will also be ‘okay' if it is good enough for the ‘Sound of Music.' Sennheiser, of course, is a well-known German audio brand and like most things German, nothing less than perfection will...

8 SCORE OUT OF 10 The Good Superb design and styling Powerful and well balanced sound Excellent build The Bad Relatively costly Don't fold down Not...

Superb design and styling; Powerful and well balanced sound; Excellent build

Relatively costly; Don't fold down; Not the most sensitive

Sennheiser's Momentum headphones look great, but they have a momentous price point. Can they live up to their expensive billing? At an RRP of $449.95, there's no doubting at all which particular price bracket the Momentum headphones play in.

It's never an easy decision to spend $350 on a set of cans, but if you're going to, you could do a whole lot worse than the Momentum – we see people do it every day.

Clear with solid range; Balanced sound for all genres; Noise isolation works well; Lightweight; Thoughtful and elegant design

Not foldable; A little pricey

The Sennheiser Momentum Black headphones offer a bloated bass-focused sound. Read our Sennheiser Momentum Black review to find out more.

We found the Sennheiser Momentum headphone to be a surprising step away from the classic, level Sennheiser sound, if sadly toward the muted and tuneless thump of fashion 'phones popularised by Beats.

Sennheiser has long been a fixture in the professional audio and high-end audiophile market. I've used my Sennheiser HD 595 and HD 600 Open Dynamic headphones for many applications - in the studio for reference monitoring, for sound quality consulting, and for audio forensics.