The Sun Ray Gold headphones are a great set of phones, very comfortable and blocks out the back ground noise so you can hear those faint signals better. Like many of the headphones made for detectors that have any quality at all they are made for us that spend many hours out detecting so the ear pads are made bigger so not so much pressure is put on your ears, but yet the ear muffs are soft so they are comfortable. With the new Gold ones the ear muff are even more comfortable than the others.
Were we really notice a difference is on the tone ID detectors where tones is what tells the story as we need some nice crisp sounding headphones which the Sun Ray Golds are.
Most home stereo phones don't have the comfort the Sun Ray gold have, plus not built to take the abuse we give our headphones, took me a while to spend the extra money, but glad I did as my finds have been deeper and more of them.
Rick