The invention is concerned with headphones having left and right supporting members (9, 19) for a sound transducer (11, 14, 20). In order to allow for an ameliorated out-of-head localization of acoustic or sound events without noteworthy loss of treble and midrange information in a hearing protecting manner the sound transducer (11, 14, 20) occupies a position tilted about a horizontal axis in the viewing direction of a headphones user and on a vertical axis intersecting the horizontal axis.