I am kind of a headphones fan. I saw these before and I really like them. Skullcandy and Audio-Technica do the detacheable wire thing on some models which is a great idea as I break headphones. I have had the wires break *inside* the cans too. At least a carry bag would be nice.
I had noise-cancelling earbuds by Sony, not the best but they are great for airplanes.
I'm worried though since they have a really high kickstarter goal, like will they make it? The price is pretty low for the actual phones. I wonder what's going on, if they are buying Chinese phones with bespoke graphics on them.
Mm, replaceable wire's definitely a plus point - it's rather frustrating that that isn't nigh universal, but it seems to largely be something reserved for the mid-range and higher, for no particularly good reason. (And indeed, I might have to do that with mine - Sennheiser HD25-1 II, demonstrating they could seriously use some naming of their products, as I've never yet been able to type that out without actually looking at them. But they're so good, despite being at the low end of the mid-range offerings!)
Sennheisers are nice, yeah. I have a Sennheiser headset, and those're actually the best headphones I got as well, noticeably better than e.g. the Philips earbuds that I usually take along on the road (and those weren't the cheapest, either). I don't know what model it is, though, it doesn't say on the headset itself.
I'm not super-hung up on quality - if your cans are too good, all they'll do is expose flaws in the recordings, anyway -, but I like how these look, and if the quality's decent, well... :)
(Quality's one of those 80/20 things, too; you get 80% of the bang for 20% of the buck. So you shouldn't pay TOO little, but if you pay too much you'll quickly be beyond the point of diminishing returns, too.)
I had noise-cancelling earbuds by Sony, not the best but they are great for airplanes.
I'm worried though since they have a really high kickstarter goal, like will they make it? The price is pretty low for the actual phones. I wonder what's going on, if they are buying Chinese phones with bespoke graphics on them.
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I'm not super-hung up on quality - if your cans are too good, all they'll do is expose flaws in the recordings, anyway -, but I like how these look, and if the quality's decent, well... :)
(Quality's one of those 80/20 things, too; you get 80% of the bang for 20% of the buck. So you shouldn't pay TOO little, but if you pay too much you'll quickly be beyond the point of diminishing returns, too.)
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The Sony MDR-V6/7506 has replaceable *everything* but one would still need to solder the wires. This is what happened to mine.
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