On 2005-10-09, Franz Bestuchev <franz.bestuchev@gmail.com> wrote:

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I like the folding action on the sony model but I've tried the kind that
go
around the back of the head and they just cause me headaches. I'm
thinking
these for portability, cheap and fairly well received for quality. $17.95

http://www.headphone.com/guide/by-budget/under-40/sennheiser-mx-450.php

I hate in-ear phones; they hurt, they sound terrible, they keep falling
out, and they're unhygienic. The hook-over type (like head-phones but
with
no band, and shaped to hang from the top of the outer ear, where spectacle
side-arms go) are much better. Without the stability of a band or some
other 'clamp', though, you easily get a resonance when the whole ear-piece
vibrates instead of only the diaphragm, and the low frequencies can be
very
weak.

The simultaneous translation in the UN is piped to that sort (but mono,
one
ear only).

These are another option I've considered if I want to go with something
that's going to give me bass that earbuds never could. Plus they come
with
their own little case to stash them in when I fold them away. I seen
several
reviews of this model and a couple of the higher end models that
Sennheiser
released at the same time and it was pretty much agreed that they got it
right with the cheaper headphones. $49.99

http://www.headphone.com/guide/by-budget/40-80/sennheiser-px-100.php

Very nice :)) They look better engineered than my Sony folders, and they
fold to a much neater package. It's hard to go seriously wrong with
Sennheiser.

I doubt I'll get permission to spend $50 on headphones though after
having
bought the nano. I know the apple supplied headphones are awful and
uncomfortable (and least the ones that come with the shuffle) from when I
got a shuffle for my lady on her birthday. So I know they'll have to be
replaced if they're the same awful ear terrorizers.

Unless there is some special feature of the iPod that you want badly, I'd
suggest getting a less hyped (and possibly better made {although [1]} as
well
as cheaper) Digital Audio Player and a good set of 'phones. Ears care
little for fashion (and other brands aren't restricted to Mac or Windows).

[1] <http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/nano.ars/3> - lots of
pictures, terrible over dial-up ;))

i have a pair of Sony MDR-V600 from the 90's. they are about $130 list
price, but i think Amazon has them for $90. they are ok, but nothing to
write home about.

i've tried a few Sennheiser at the audio stores, and the 580 are pretty
good. they make both closed and open varieties of headphones.

the Grado are ok. but uncomfortable.

i believe cost no object, i'd get Sennheiser or electrostatic headphones.

m.

i believe cost no object, i'd get Sennheiser or electrostatic headphones.

m.

On 2005-10-29, Alan Harding <Alan@harding.demon.co.uk> wrote:

In message <rve523-8oc.ln1@ID-107770.user.individual.net>, Whiskers
<catwheezel@operamail.com> writes

On 2005-10-14, Alan Harding <Alan@harding.demon.co.uk> wrote:

In message <0b4l13-06j.ln1@ID-107770.user.individual.net>, Whiskers
<catwheezel@operamail.com> writes

On 2005-10-08, Franz Bestuchev <franz.bestuchev@gmail.com> wrote:

I like to listen to the same section of a track, so my band would
follow me
around playing the cannon part of the 1812 overture (real cannon of
course,
this is the BEST way to listen to this work) repeatedly.

Tricky on an undergound train in the rush-hour. In my country the
firearms
restrictions might rule out real weapons.

They use a real cannon to start races at Cowes, and a field gun to mark
curfew (I think) in Edinburgh. A couple of cannon in the Albert Hall
might test the acoustics, but I reckon it would be legal, unless London
has a bye-law.

The daily gun I know of in Edinburgh is fired at one PM, from the
castle -
by the army. In London the army fire canon quite often, mostly from the
embankment by the Tower or in Hyde Park or Horse Guards. I think it's
meant to keep the Royals on their toes.

They be kept on their toes more if they fired the cannons at Buck Ho.

They aren't there very often. But field guns can be aimed very quickly.

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