Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site petrus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!bellcore!petrus!karn From: karn@petrus.UUCP Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: Digital Ready Headphones Needed! Message-ID: <385@petrus.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 18:01:19 EDT Article-I.D.: petrus.385 Posted: Fri Jun 28 18:01:19 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Jul-85 06:42:36 EDT References: <30200012@gypsy.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Inc Lines: 16 I too am interested in headphones for a CD player. I've found that the difficulty is not in finding phones that can do justice to the performance of a CD player, but rather in finding a set that can ALSO seal out enough room noise so you can hear the full dynamic range. On the basis of simple performance, the best headphones these days seem to be the on-the-ear types (e.g., Sennheiser) but they provide no isolation at all from room noise. Listening to a CD player with phones like these while hacking away in front of a noisy Sun or IBM PC is like listening to a CD player in a car -- you end up cranking the volume so high to hear the quiet passages that you damage your hearing on the loud parts. Can anybody recommend a set of phones that are at least as good as the larger Seenheisers AND do a reasonable job of sealing out external noise AND aren't uncomfortable to wear? Phil