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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
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Posted: Fri Jun 28 18:01:19 1985
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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