The gift of sound and vision
Butler
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I was in a Bang & Olufsen store yesterday because I was in the market for new headphones. This store was such hot shit you actually had to ring the bell before they'd even let you inside.
I did not buy headphones because they were like £90 holy god in heaven. But so many pretty speakers, all entire sound systems carved out of a single piece of sequioa heartwood, landline phones that are so streamlined and germanic they probably come with the home numbers of Kraftwerk preprogrammed in. Also this mobile phone, I don't know how well it works but I wanted to pick it up and start licking it, but B&O had thought ahead and put it under a glass case. Damn them.
On the way out I caught a glimpse of the salesman's phone lying on his desk: a Mk. 1 N-gage. I shit you not.
Anyway, I ended up buying some sony headphones elsewhere for £35. They sound excellent and unlike the came-with-the-iPod ones they don't fall out of my irregular ear canals every time I tilt my head.
I guess this thread would be the place to talk about, not music per se, but how you listen to it.
I did not buy headphones because they were like £90 holy god in heaven. But so many pretty speakers, all entire sound systems carved out of a single piece of sequioa heartwood, landline phones that are so streamlined and germanic they probably come with the home numbers of Kraftwerk preprogrammed in. Also this mobile phone, I don't know how well it works but I wanted to pick it up and start licking it, but B&O had thought ahead and put it under a glass case. Damn them.
On the way out I caught a glimpse of the salesman's phone lying on his desk: a Mk. 1 N-gage. I shit you not.
Anyway, I ended up buying some sony headphones elsewhere for £35. They sound excellent and unlike the came-with-the-iPod ones they don't fall out of my irregular ear canals every time I tilt my head.
I guess this thread would be the place to talk about, not music per se, but how you listen to it.
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My perfectly shaped ears hold the earphones in their gentle embrace.
I also have Sennheiser HD 550, they are really good. Not specifically for music but good headphones for generic sound makin'
If they go out I'm getting another pair of Sennheisers, I've already decided.
http://www.skullcandy.com/shop/doubleagent-p-86.html?zenid=badf0a691fd46bf68c77ed41716cc1ac
Because goddamn they look awesome.
They do look pretty awesome. Artreus has some Skullcandy headphones, I can ask him about the quality if he isn't dead
http://www.gradolabs.com/frameset_main.htm
I actually have these here HD280 Pro headphones and while the sound quality prolly isn't as good as Tofu's 212s they are supergood at blocking out external noise, and it still sounds Quite Good
So when my little brother is ramping his RARGHGHHGRHARHA GRROOOAAARRGH death metal fucking nonsense at 200dB I can put these on and suddenly he's not there anymore and it's awesome
Nothing better for airplanes, too
oh man, they have an internal music player that you can just insert a SD card into to listen to stuff. that is awesome
You can replace those covers for very cheap you know.
I swear, that phone you linked, is the one the Observer uses in Fringe.
Oh god I do this all the time. Roommates will be talking to me or watching TV something while I'm doing homework and I just plop the headphones on and all of a sudden the noies is gone
My 555's wouldn't be very good at work since they're open (everyone else hears what I'm hearing), so I've been looking at the 280 Pro's for a while now
But if the 212's are closed and good enough, I might just go with those
yea, i prefer full headphones, or those ones that hook behind the ear
Yep
the ones that clip behind the ear start to hurt the outside of my ear on extended listening sessions, it sucks
but I like full sized headphones to just about anything else, partially because they block out other sound better, which was essential in my old job so that I could avoid talking to the crazy lady that sat next to me
Have you tried the 280s? I can't find anything directly comparing the two
212: $60, closed, supra-aural, good sound
280: $90-100, closed, circumaural, good sound
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it's glorious
they are the purdiests
Basically for sound quality (especially bass response) 212 > 280
But for pretending the outside world doesn't fucking exist (and vice-versa) 280 > 212
So if your primary concern is your coworkers makin frowny faces at the kid listenin to his Green Metal or whatever the fuck it is, get the 280s
I think some soldering has come loose, or some bollocks.
send it to me and I'll fix it
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