Audiofly Performance Series In-Ear Monitors and Snugs Ear Docks. How do the Audiofly performance series with Snugs sleeves sound? As you would expect, the whole range has superb detail retrieval and very impressive instrument separation, calm but with crisp highs. Bass is deep and textured but sits accurately in the mix. A great combination of beautifully designed products.

For this showdown we decided to look for the best portable on ear headphone in the £200 to £300 price range.

A great newcomer to the Portable Headphone range – The Aedle VK-1 has real punch with weighty bass and cracking midrange. Not only do they sound exciting, they look it too!

For a portable headphone the KEF M500 is gives you everything – stylish, compact, well built, iPhone compatible, comfortable and it sounds great.

The Full-size Sennheiser Momentum is the big brother to the smaller on-ear Momentum; the last word in luxurious, portable listening with sumptuous earpads made from real leather.

RHA SA950i On Ear Portable Headphones , £49.95 at Hifiheadphones.co.uk. At this price, the RHA SA950i is exceptional value for money, and the sound will not disappoint.

The Hidizs AP100 is certainly worth considering - the name might take some getting used to, but it's plain to see that this player is getting some covetous glances!

Quality cabling is an alien concept to be fair; the signal passes from A to B anyway, why spend money on interconnects which will achieve the same end?

At this price point, you'll find it very difficult to find an earphone with mic as good as the Fidue A31s.

The Beyerdynamic T51 is one of the best portable headphones out there. Now they have gone a step further by adding an in-line microphone and phone controls

Chord cables are designed and made without compromises on quality, to ensure that no detail is lost within your set-up.

The DUNU DN-900 is a well built, hybrid in-ear headphone. The bass is punchy without overcrowding, with spacious mids and smooth highs - these earphones perfectly combine power and detail.

Westone have proved to be an excellent balanced armature based range of IEMs, but how does the single BA design of the Westone UM Pro 10 stand up?

Hifiheadphones offer superior beats with the Pioneer SE-MX9 Headphones- Superior Club Sound with superb build quality coupled with great street style looks, Pioneer are onto a winner.

The SoundMAGIC HP150 headphones, availiable now at HIfiheadphones £169.99. SoundMAGIC again show that they can produce fantastic sounding headphones for under £200.