The MONOPRICE MONOLITH M570 HEADPHONES are a smooth and engaging listen with most types of music. They are a great value for the money.

Planar magnetic drivers provide excellent bass. Open-back design gives them a wide soundstage. Simple, elegant construction. Comfortable headphones and ear pads. Plug and play. Insane value.

The Monoprice Monolith M570 will let you hear every single detail and flaw in your music, games, or movie soundtracks and it’ll do so with a little extra bite and exciting bass on top of its technical accuracy. It’s one of my new benchmark pairs, and one of my personal favorites across a lifetime of headphone listening. I’m eager to check out the other pairs using this driver to see if their headbands and slight design differences warrant their dramatically higher prices. In the here-and-now, the M570 delivers far more than $300 of sound and build quality, and if you find a discount then congrats on getting the proverbial cherry on top.

I’ve tested at least five Monoprice headphones at this point, and the M570s are my favorites to date. They’re not the headphones I’d recommend for detail fanatics, but those who want an affordable, pleasant listening experience -- with comfort and sound that they’ll enjoy for hours on end, with neither earlobe mashing nor eardrum fatigue -- will probably love the M570s.