The other thing I didn't like were the earpads

Other reviewers have mistakenly diagnosed this as a problem with the earpads and purchased after-market earpads for themselves

The earpads are shallow and hurt to put on your ears for more than 15 seconds but I replaced them with the spare pair of HM5 pads that came with my XPT100s

However, I'd have to say that the earpads are pretty uncomfortable

The earpads are relatively hard and are probably not suited for listening for more than an hour or so

One major negative point against these cans is the earpads are rather hard and uncomfortable