Originally Posted by FWAAA
For me. they make listening to music or watching a movie much more pleasant in the loud interior environment of an aiplane moving 500+ mph.
This is a good point I didn't mention.
I often just wear the headphones and don't plug them into anything. But when you do, you can hear the subtleties of music or of a movie even at low volumes.
With regular headphones, you've got to turn the volume way up to hear whatever you want to hear.