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post #1 of 7
11/6/09 at 3:52am
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I was going to a lab experiment today for my Phonology class. Basically, I was just supposed to listen to a bunch of speech sounds (f and th, in my case) and see how well I can distinguish them. Well, the computers didn't just have any headphones... they had AKG K240 MKIIs. All four of them. And they were only used to listen to people's recorded speech sounds. The whole time I was doing the experiment I was just amazed by the fact that they had some quality headphones for such a simple purpose.

And actually, I just ordered myself a pair of them a few days ago; I'd been looking up AKG headphones and decided to get those. Who woulda thought I'd be able to try them on during a lame phonetics experiment...

Looks like there are some audiophile linguists at my university. Definitely need some good headphones to distinguish those speech sounds.
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post #2 of 7
11/6/09 at 10:50am
well they wouldn't want to have any errors in there experiments due to faulty equipment would they?

But seriously that's awesome
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post #3 of 7
11/6/09 at 11:48am
K240's have been a studio/recording standard for quite some time. I see them and the Sony V6/7506 all the time.

Let us know how you like 'em after taking the plunge.

-Nylan
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post #4 of 7
11/6/09 at 1:58pm
My high school had a lab full of Sennheisers and M-Audio mixers for the Orchestra dept. Very nice stuff.
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post #5 of 7
11/6/09 at 3:29pm
They are mostly used in studios and for monitoring. Your experiment could do with phones with such a reputation.
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post #6 of 7
11/7/09 at 2:43am
cools story.
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post #7 of 7
11/7/09 at 5:56am
Nice little story!
Hope you will be pleased with the K240 MKII for music as well.
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