Headphone prefs?

I hate iPod headphones and all headphones that go in your ear really. Feels too loud to me.

I use cans at home, buds on the road.

I prefer the in-ear variety when I'm out...simply because I can take them out, roll the cord up, tuck it in a little cloth pouch, and stick it in my pocket. I've had god knows how many over ear headphones break on me because they got squished in my backpack. That and in-ear ones block a lot of ambient noise, and offer better sound reproduction.

At home, where size isn't an issue, I have a big pair of closed studio headphones. I used to have an open pair, but...well, I'm not too sure what the advantage is supposed to be. They leak in all the surrounding noise which destroys the whole purpose of wearing headphones in the first place.

I hate iPod headphonestaindcoldlp

That's one thing that drives me crazy when I take the bus to university - there are generally half a dozen people (at least) wearing white iPod headphones, and I want to run around and rip them off peoples' heads. They sound terrible. I didn't realize how awful they sounded and how uncomfortable they were until I got my own iPod. I used the headphones for about thirty seconds and then dumped them.

Seriously, people spend hundreds of dollars on an iPod and can't be bothered to buy a decent $20-$30 pair of headphones? The stock things are like listening to your music through a gramophone.

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I hate iPod headphoneDJ_Lae

That's one thing that drives me crazy when I take the bus to university - there are generally half a dozen people (at least) wearing white iPod headphones, and I want to run around and rip them off peoples' heads. They sound terrible. I didn't realize how awful they sounded and how uncomfortable they were until I got my own iPod. I used the headphones for about thirty seconds and then dumped them.

Seriously, people spend hundreds of dollars on an iPod and can't be bothered to buy a decent $20-$30 pair of headphones? The stock things are like listening to your music through a gramophone.

[QUOTE="staindcoldlp"]

I hate iPod headphoneDJ_Lae

That's one thing that drives me crazy when I take the bus to university - there are generally half a dozen people (at least) wearing white iPod headphones, and I want to run around and rip them off peoples' heads. They sound terrible. I didn't realize how awful they sounded and how uncomfortable they were until I got my own iPod. I used the headphones for about thirty seconds and then dumped them.

Seriously, people spend hundreds of dollars on an iPod and can't be bothered to buy a decent $20-$30 pair of headphones? The stock things are like listening to your music through a gramophone.

$20-$30 gets you less than decent for headphones.NrGcHaRgE021

It gets you a pair of Panasonic HJE50s or Sony EX51s, both of which are about ten times better than the stock iPod headphones.

[QUOTE="NrGcHaRgE021"]$20-$30 gets you less than decent for headphones.DJ_Lae

It gets you a pair of Panasonic HJE50s or Sony EX51s, both of which are about ten times better than the stock iPod headphones.