The Sony wireless gold headset worked and sounded great for me, for about 6 weeks. Then I started noticing little cracks all along the front edge of the top band, after about a week the whole thing split right in half. Called Sony and they had me send them in to see if they could be warrantied, the customer service guy said it sounded like it was my fault, and told me if they were found to have been neglected they wouldn't replace. Well after a week they sent me a brand new headset, so I'm assuming it wasn't just a one off thing, or else they woulda just told me I'm sol.