Daily commute (walk/subway/commuter train/shuttlebus and back): pre UE TF10 acquisition, mostly UE SF5EB IEMs & occasionally AKG 702; post UE TF10 acquisition, always TF10 IEMs

Weekend commute (walk/subway/amtrak/car and back): AKG 702

I took my K702s out on Saturday (went to play Nobilis with some friends, brought the phones along with my J3 + XM6 because I knew we'd be out for the better part of the day). Stopped at a Jamba Juice, place was packed. Dunno if I got any looks; probably didn't, seemed like everyone was either busy, or busy waiting for their drinks.

-- Griffinhart

My commuting pair on the train used to be Grado SR80's which aren't terribly big but they make you look like a russian astronaut. Funniest thing that happened to me was when I was walking home from the train and a guy looked at me and pretended like he was placing an order at McDonalds. I almost peed myself laughing.

How do you folks with the open cans, especially Grados, manage to get any listening done on buses? Serious question. Sometimes I feel my HD25 isn't isolating enough..

You gotta have plenty of attitude ; )

If I come back to the forum after 25th May, that means I survived being mobbed by a plane full of passengers. That or the more believable alternative that people have greater tolerances than we give them credit for =D

To be honest I wouldn't be doing critical listening anywhere noisy even with customs. The noise from the subway or a crowded coffee shop is enough to seep into your music even with customs, so with anything including open cans like Grados, I just use them for providing some kind of background music to help me along my journey.

Crank it! Who doesn't appreciate a screeching Hendrix solo?

But in all seriousness, that is why I bought my ER-4p IEMs. Because on an airplane sitting next to the wing they were basically useless.
 

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Originally Posted by zmd 

How do you folks with the open cans, especially Grados, manage to get any listening done on buses? Serious question. Sometimes I feel my HD25 isn't isolating enough..

If you are a bad ass, then you gets to do what ya wanna do . . .

. . . but . . .

for the rest of us . . . 

 . . . perhaps some discreet noise isolating headphones are a good idea?

Sorry for silliness . . . sort of . . .

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Originally Posted by zmd 

How do you folks with the open cans, especially Grados, manage to get any listening done on buses? Serious question. Sometimes I feel my HD25 isn't isolating enough..

I can't even listen to my Grados with a box fan turned on low. Needless to say, I end up using IEMs most of the time 

For travel, I use my Sony - MDR-V150's. I know they're a laughable set of headphones to most of you guys but they're cheap, sound decent enough for travel, and not a huge loss if they get trashed.

PX200  or SE425 for my train and bus commute.

I usually only wear IEMs on the go. On sunny days, I pull out the Zino, but it's more of an accessory than an audiophile headphone to me - the Zino looks just as good as bad voices sound.

I do wear my fullsize cans outside from time to time, but only on the train and if my beatiful wife is with me. Else I'd feel ridiculously stupid.