Originally Posted by
Flyin4MAG
If you have to ask the question then you clearly have never owned a pair.
My feelings exactly
The problem is your ears adjust to the "quiet," and when you take them off whoa is it loud in the plane. And actually if you look closely at the headphones, you'll notice that the cord to plug them into your music player isn't fixed to the them like it is in most headphones--it's made to detach just for this reason.