Fellow headphone nutjobs,
Call me a moron, call me smart as a sack of wet hammers, but I'm in a pickle.
I'm out of town, and was trying to do the ordering thing for a B-day present for my wife. The thing I ordered is now suddenly unavailable. So now I'm forced with trying to order something in time for, hopefully Monday.
My wife has a 5.5 gen Ipod, and uses the stock crapbuds. She's an accomplished baroque flautist, but these days works in an office. She listens to the pod every day, either in the office, during lunch or on the bus. Occasionally she may listen while riding the bike, but generally not because she wants to be aware of what's going on.
Her musical tastes range from Baroque performed with original instruments, through Depeche Mode, Cheb Mami, Nusrat Fateh ali Khan, and the Berlin Philharmonic banging out it's loudest version of Mahler.
Preferably I'd like to spend less than a hundred, but given the right circumstances, I'm willing to spend more. Earbuds are my target, as she's not a Vegas DJ.
She appreciates quality, but is by no means a "-phile." In other words, she's happy when I buy a lovely XBR LCD TV, but is uninterested in anything but the result. As such, I think looks could be very important.
So to cut to the chase, I thought about getting her some V-Moda Vibes in red, but I read some of the craptastic reviews on Amazon about them falling apart and not working. This disinterests me slightly. I am reading something about a second gen of the vibes, but Amazon has no provision seemingly to chose those. I've also read about these new Vibe duos, but only briefly. My wife is not an iphoner, and has little interest in becoming one. Are the duo's different in any substantive way other than the mic?
So: recommendations are exceedingly welcome, in fact implored. What, fare Head-Fi'ers can I buy for my friendly music listening spouse, that will with some luck and expedited shipping arrive at her doorstep on the fair morn' of Monday?
Thanks for the help, and rock on, even if you're rocking out to Taverner.
p.s. A few months ago I picked up (and shortly returned) some shure E2c's; neither of us liked them; I would say the right word to describe our impression of them would be douchealicious. She did however very much like the Sony something or other's that sell for a little less than $100 at the big boxes, although they too were imperfect and were returned. But I'd rather put the kybosh on the E2c's than the Sony's, as an example.
Call me a moron, call me smart as a sack of wet hammers, but I'm in a pickle.
I'm out of town, and was trying to do the ordering thing for a B-day present for my wife. The thing I ordered is now suddenly unavailable. So now I'm forced with trying to order something in time for, hopefully Monday.
My wife has a 5.5 gen Ipod, and uses the stock crapbuds. She's an accomplished baroque flautist, but these days works in an office. She listens to the pod every day, either in the office, during lunch or on the bus. Occasionally she may listen while riding the bike, but generally not because she wants to be aware of what's going on.
Her musical tastes range from Baroque performed with original instruments, through Depeche Mode, Cheb Mami, Nusrat Fateh ali Khan, and the Berlin Philharmonic banging out it's loudest version of Mahler.
Preferably I'd like to spend less than a hundred, but given the right circumstances, I'm willing to spend more. Earbuds are my target, as she's not a Vegas DJ.
She appreciates quality, but is by no means a "-phile." In other words, she's happy when I buy a lovely XBR LCD TV, but is uninterested in anything but the result. As such, I think looks could be very important.
So to cut to the chase, I thought about getting her some V-Moda Vibes in red, but I read some of the craptastic reviews on Amazon about them falling apart and not working. This disinterests me slightly. I am reading something about a second gen of the vibes, but Amazon has no provision seemingly to chose those. I've also read about these new Vibe duos, but only briefly. My wife is not an iphoner, and has little interest in becoming one. Are the duo's different in any substantive way other than the mic?
So: recommendations are exceedingly welcome, in fact implored. What, fare Head-Fi'ers can I buy for my friendly music listening spouse, that will with some luck and expedited shipping arrive at her doorstep on the fair morn' of Monday?
Thanks for the help, and rock on, even if you're rocking out to Taverner.
p.s. A few months ago I picked up (and shortly returned) some shure E2c's; neither of us liked them; I would say the right word to describe our impression of them would be douchealicious. She did however very much like the Sony something or other's that sell for a little less than $100 at the big boxes, although they too were imperfect and were returned. But I'd rather put the kybosh on the E2c's than the Sony's, as an example.
