How is the sound does it leak out of the headphones or is it good?
852196
The sound quality is excellent. And at the loudest setting it does not leak out at all. They are not as great as the huge ones for twice the price, but for this price they really are great!
852197
I got the headphones for my daughter and I never hear what she is listening to when she has her headphones on
1662842
There is a switch on the bottom of the cups to allow more air into the cup to increase the amount of bass they get, but it doesn't affect sound leakage at all they're closed headphones so there is almost no leakage at normal volume.
867715
They are really good. They are not too over powering with bass. I really like it. Even when it's on really loud it. It's not to bad. It doesn't hurt my ears like other headphones.
1359060
The sound leakage is there, but not at an extreme level, unless he plays really loud. But, considering the isolation performance of those, I doubt he will need to play it real loud. And, even then, it shouldn't create a disturbance that is considerably higher than what you would create by using an ordinary earbud. In any case, this is not an open-back headphone, so there won't be a lot of leakage.
1824897
Their sound is very good, the earcups are kind of squishy like that temperpedic material so you get a good seal which should keep them from leaking sound. I mainly use them on the plane, and you don't have to crank them to get the music decently loud because they isolate your ears pretty well. About the only thing I don't like is you have to flip a manual switch on them if you want to use them without the noise cancelling thing and that switch isn't terribly handy to flip while you are wearing them. They are expensive, but work pretty well.
521752
Quite a bit with these, I let a friend try them out with a PC game and I could hear everything quite clearly standing next to him. In general open back headphones will leak more sound, I do have a few pairs that are fairly quiet to someone nearby but these broadcast the sound very well. For your purposes I would recommend a closed-back headphone or an open-back that doesn't leak much sound (find a place to try it out first if you can).
1112430
The cups form a pretty good seal around my ears, so I don't think there's much leakage. Nobody around me has said they can hear my music.
1963207
No, they don't leak sound. I can sit right next to my son when he has the headphones on and I don't hear a thing. He is very happy with them.
631454
Sound leakage is minimal, but present. Depends where you are. In my quiet living room, if I have them playing loudly and put them down on a table, I can hear it from a few feet away. But that's at like, way too loud for a quiet room levels. Not world-class. But these aren't quite world-class headphones. If I turn it down to a level you'd expect to be listening in a quiet room, you can't hear any sound leakage at all
1769715
Your welcome. Open headphones such as these HD555's have sort of a metal mesh grill on each outer side where the speakers are located, sort of like a boom box has on each speaker. On a boom box or stereo the speakers face out to let out the music, in the case of open headphones the speakers face the ear but air and sound is released through the metal grill. This is done so that the music has more room to develope more richly. Therefore some sound leaks out (its a good thing) but it allows people around you to hear what you are listening to. Closed headphones such as the HD202 do no have any metal grill on the sides, just closed plastic, therefore there is no sound leak, only you hear the music. Most people prefer to use open headphones at home for the great sound quality but others use the closed headphones outside and take a hit on the sound quality a bit because they don't want anyone to hear what they are listening to or they don't want to disturb anyone on planes or at work. Ipod earbuds are pretty bad earphones in my opinion and mostly only certain over the ear headphones are considered open and most in ear earphones are considered closed. These HD555's will destroy the ipod earbuds in sound quality, like night and day. Sennheiser is a very respected audio company, especially with audiophile people who love headphones and music. I hope that helped a bit.
2010317
yes, they leak sound but it depends on 1) how loud you like somethign when noise cancelling is on 2) how loud you can turn it up with surrouinding ambient noise They defintely leak sound though
658445
The sound quality through the speakers is pretty good. I don't use it with headphones but like all audio devices the sound quality is only as good as the headphones you use.
785614
The sound leakage based on a person talking normally is not bad sometimes you can't hear them at all and if you do hear people talking, it'll be more like murmur. You can use them on a plane, but I think you need to get a different jack for it. I am not sure about using them in a professional setting because I have never used them in that circumstances before. Overall it's a very good quality headphones for its price. Hope this helps.
129885
I would say that there is a considerable sound leakage as these are "on the ear" headphones. If you are worried about sound leakage you should consider "over the ear" headphones preferably with noise cancellation features.
1420199
Sound leakage at low to mid volume is not bad, but at higher volumes, it leaks terribly.
1237219
There doesn't seem to be a problem with sound leakage, but you can hear the stuff going on around you. This is by far the best/most comfortable headset I've ever used.
84610
They don't leak too much. The sound is quite focused and the design of the earbuds blocks out other sounds, so turning up the iphone too high isn't really necessary.