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ideal headphone band position?

post #1 of 19
1/3/04 at 6:02pm
Thread Starter 
Great newbie question I think...did a search and couldnt find anything.

My incredibly daft question (mods feel free to delete if the simpleness disgusts you!) is what is the optimum position for the head-band on a users head.

I mean I was "experimenting" with my PX200s, the pads sit nicely on my ear when the headband is across the middle of my head, but also sits quite well when the headband is sitting right at the top of the back of my head, the crown i think its called? The headband is sorta tilted backwards at an angle of around 45 degrees.

Hmm, watch this thread go down and down...
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post #2 of 19
1/3/04 at 6:29pm
According to Murphy's law, the ideal position is at the place where the headband will make the most dammages to your haircut.


More seriously, the headband of the px200 is at best for me slightly towards the front.
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post #3 of 19
1/3/04 at 6:40pm
whatever feels most comfortable i assume.
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post #4 of 19
1/3/04 at 6:42pm
who's murphy, never heard that law before.
the design for my sony v6 is interesting. except i dont know how to describe it. the two legs of the headband is tilted to an angle, the headband is titled to the front when you put it on. sort of like the sennheiser hd25:

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if i still have the px200 i would put the grado earpads on it. the px200 earpad is just too small, radio shack earpads work nice on it too.
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post #5 of 19
1/3/04 at 6:43pm
Murphy's laws and corollaries
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post #6 of 19
1/3/04 at 6:45pm
I generally have mine on the top of my head. For the PX200 I found that I get the best sound if I have the headband rather tight as well.
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post #7 of 19
1/3/04 at 6:49pm
some of them are false. like: Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you won't either.

two people can get married and have their babies born in big test tubes. the babies can still grow up and 'will' have sex.

the one above that one is wrong too. that guy is wierd.
"Abstain from wine, women, and song; mostly song."
agree with this, but i dont want to know what he listens to.
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post #8 of 19
1/3/04 at 6:57pm
More seriously :

Quote:
The following article was excerpted from The Desert Wings
March 3, 1978

Murphy's Law ("If anything can go wrong, it will") was born at Edwards Air Force Base in 1949 at North Base.

It was named after Capt. Edward A. Murphy, an engineer working on Air Force Project MX981, (a project) designed to see how much sudden deceleration a person can stand in a crash.

One day, after finding that a transducer was wired wrong, he cursed the technician responsible and said, "If there is any way to do it wrong, he'll find it."

The contractor's project manager kept a list of "laws" and added this one, which he called Murphy's Law.

Actually, what he did was take an old law that had been around for years in a more basic form and give it a name.

Shortly afterwards, the Air Force doctor (Dr. John Paul Stapp) who rode a sled on the deceleration track to a stop, pulling 40 Gs, gave a press conference. He said that their good safety record on the project was due to a firm belief in Murphy's Law and in the necessity to try and circumvent it.

Aerospace manufacturers picked it up and used it widely in their ads during the next few months, and soon it was being quoted in many news and magazine articles. Murphy's Law was born.

The Northrop project manager, George E. Nichols, had a few laws of his own. Nichols' Fourth Law says, "Avoid any action with an unacceptable outcome."

The doctor, well-known Col. John P. Stapp, had a paradox: Stapp's Ironical Paradox, which says, "The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle."

Nichols is still around. At NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, he's the quality control manager for the Viking project to send an unmanned spacecraft to Mars.
more about that here : http://www.murphys-laws.com/
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post #9 of 19
1/3/04 at 7:30pm
I like mine towards the top of my head.

Further back, and it feels like it's wearing a bald spot on my head. Anyone know if headphone wearing leads to bald patches?

-Ed
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post #10 of 19
1/3/04 at 8:57pm
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Originally posted by Edwood
I like mine towards the top of my head.

Further back, and it feels like it's wearing a bald spot on my head. Anyone know if headphone wearing leads to bald patches?

-Ed
God I hope not!
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post #11 of 19
1/3/04 at 9:05pm
I like mine either at the top of my head or tilted towards the back just a touch.

I think the optimum position is the one that gives you the most comfort.
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post #12 of 19
1/3/04 at 9:15pm
what kaba said
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post #13 of 19
1/4/04 at 12:56am
What is at stake here is not the position of the headband, but the relation between the driver and your ear that the changing of the headband position affects. Generally, you get a bit wider soundstage with the drivers positioned a bit in front of and a tad lower than normal (directly over your ears (shamelessly stolen from meier audio)) but everyone's head is different, so the headband position to get the drivers into this position is highly individualistic.
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post #14 of 19
1/4/04 at 9:32am
Thread Starter 
Ah I see, I thought it might be every persons head is different.
thanks
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post #15 of 19
1/4/04 at 5:25pm
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Originally posted by terrymx
if i still have the px200 i would put the grado earpads on it. the px200 earpad is just too small, radio shack earpads work nice on it too.
Could you go into a little more detail? Which Radio Shack earpads work? And, for that matter, which Grado pads?

Both of them fit the PX200 perfectly?
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