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Advice on Headphones
Posted by Excitable Boy on 7 February 2011 - 12:25pm.
I want to spend up to £100 on some good quality headphones for my beloved Creative Zen. I want over ear headphones, not in-ear, and closed ones I can use at the office/home and on the train/planes without disturbing others. Any advice from the Massive please ?
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Dunno about £100
But I have a pair of full-size Sennheiser HD 201s which can still be bought for the princely sum of £15. Absolutely outstanding cost/quality ratio
Agreed ...
... although I find the 201s aren't so good for keeping out external noise - eg. they aren't much good on a train. I also use Sennheiser 280 Pros which are better at isolating noise. I also find them quite comfortable to wear for long periods. My pair cost around £65 a couple of years ago. The only problem is you would look a complete dork wearing them in public as they are quite clunky :)
Whatever you do
Don't go to http://www.headphoneworld.com/
I was looking for some Shure earphones and this site was about £20 cheaper than anywhere else, and a quick search about the company seemed to prove that they were bona fide and above board. But, of course, they were not.
First, they sent an email asking for proof of my address to be sent to them, to help 'fight fraud', then they would not answer my emails about why this was necessary, and finally, after sending them a heavily censored gas bill that only showed my name and address, they said the product was out of stock and would be back in stock in two weeks.
I checked for online reviews of the company and, surprise surprise, this was the experience of almost everyone leaving reviews. I asked for a refund and heard no more back from them, so had to find a phone number for their parent company and get my money back that way.
Sorry I can't help with your original question, and sorry for hijacking your thread, but I want to spread the word about this company, and warn everyone away from using them. The most annoying, borderline fraudulent company I have ever had the displeasure of dealing with.
Just for clarity
why don't you want in ear phones? I only ask because I could never find any that stayed in and were comfortable so bought loads of over ear headphones that never quite cut the mustard. I then got some Shure 115's with some Comply foam tips which are comfy and fit brilliantly. I regularly fall asleep in mine now because they are so comfortable and when I wake up they're still firmly in my ear.
Comply
never seen them before. Where did you get them? Which model? Professional?
Little memory foam things
for your ear buds. They do a range of sizes matched to a number of different ear bud phones. I saw them at the Gadget Show and they gave me a trial pair. They are much more comfortable than the standard memory foam type that came with my Shure 115's (which I bought because the foam things were comfortable in the first place).
Comply website here -> http://www.complyfoam.com/
They sell them here:
http://www.advancedmp3players.co.uk/shop/advanced_search_result.php?keyw...
wrong thread.
ooops.
For over ear ones, AKG K430
For over ear ones, AKG K430 are rather spiffy.
And, I'm with Leedsboy in that in ears with comply tips are both comfy and sound great.
I use comply's on Sennheiser cx300's - way better (comfier/quieter) than the rubber flanges they come with.
sennheiser pxc 300
not cheap
on ear
leather pads
battery holder a bit bulky- takes 2 AAA
good sound
reliable not as sound proofed as over ear but lighhter less dorky
goodif your hearing is going at the high end