Or you could just use a mechanical push mower. They're silent... don't use gas or electricity, lighter to push around (no heavy motor...), and they make a really pretty cut. I still don't understand why people use gas mowers! If you used a silent mower you could use open-air headphones...

My feeling about the Sennheisers is the same... way too laid back for me. I've tried out a friend of mine's HD600s on a few different headphone amps, and it just does nothing for me, but then I'm so used to the in-you-face Grado sound that the Sennheisers just sound sedated. That being said...

Not that I have the money to blow on quality interconnects, but if I did I'd definitely spend some very good money on them. Remember your system only sounds as good as the weakest link. So if you have a great amp and great headphones, why would you connect them with interconnects that will...

I have several friends who DJ often here at school. All of them use either the Sony V6, or some cheaper Sony's, and I think this is mainly because they just don't know what else is out there. So what are great Non-Sony DJ headphones which I should recommend, and why?

if you are posting here, I think honestly you need both. You'll need the Senns to listen to anything and be your comfort food. You'll need to the Grados to get whipped by the music and really LISTEN to it and be impacted. Some people don't like being whipped by the music... whatever.. that's...

It's the "Music Issue" of Gear magazine I've got in front of me here, with Vitamin C on the cover. On page 37 they have a test drive of headphones. The Etymotic Reserch ER-4Ps get the crappiest review... I thing the reviewer had a homophobic experience with them or something. User Friendly...

They have three of those same clear bubble speaker things at the giant new mall that just opened near my house near DC. They sound kind of like if you hung your headphones 3 feet above your head and turned the volume loud enough to hear them. They also have a very narrow and intense sweet spot...

my sinuses get stuffed up all the time and when they do sometimes I get a ringing in my right. Now I can't hear stuff quit as lound in that ear, but it's only very slight and hardly noticable. Getting you ears cleaned out makes a huge difference, or at least it did for me. I was in India over...

Okay I can't compare directly since I don't have those exact models, but I can come pretty close. I have some Grado SR-80's that I swear by, and my friend has some AKG k401's that he swears by. The detail is there on way or the other, but it really depends if you want the music to hit your ears...

On the Hampshire College campus, I see lots of Sony mostly. V6's all over. I've seen Koss Prota Pro's a few times. Among the DJs the Sony V7's are very popular. I know one guy who wears Sony's open-air mid-size MDR-605LP constantly. They look good and sound okay. There's a guy living a few...

Earlier there was a thread where people started bashing the bass boost feature on some equipment. I think that's silly because it's really useful. The "loudness" feature not only boosts the low frequencies but also the high ones, in keeping with the natural sensitivity contours of the ear. In...

I'm thinking about a used Porta Corda actually, but we'll see. Quote: Originally posted by chadbang First I would agree with trying out some Sennheisers. But if you want to hang onto the Grados, the Total Airhead will help smooth them out some (but not enough for me, however. I also...

I looked around a bit more about db's and realized that the db scale is not linear, it's actually logrithmic. That means, 70db is actually twice as loud as 60db. That pretty well explains why 70db is way to loud. This is a great chart... however keep in mind that while sources are MEASURED...

Well of course. 70db average is way loud. Do you talk to people at 70db average? No. You yell maybe, and certainly not directly into someone's ear. 70db works if it's across the room maybe. Distance does have a big effect. To start with a number out of context doesn't make any sense, even if...

Actually that's a really good idea! Those things are only $40.. not bad. I'm going to get one! Quote: Originally posted by Jon Beilin or buy a radioshack sound pressure level meter and be 100% sure that you aren't hurting your ears.

Hamp and UMass are pretty isolated from eachother- very very little crossover unfortunately, though not sure why.... okay back to topic! Maybe a better question then would be where could I actually listen to some of these Amps and higher-end cans without actually buying them, to get an idea...

Okay, so I checked out the Alessandros on the web, and realized that they're really some slight varient of regular production Grados. As joelongwood has just noted, the Grados don't like the MG Head tube amp, which is the only tube amp in my price range... it makes me wonder if the...

Okay maybe I came off as not liking the Grados, that's not true, I actually love the Grados with most of my stuff.. though not all. It's not the way (most) of the music sounds that bothers me, it's just the way static and noise gets Super-Amplified so it practically kills me. Was hoping a tube...

I've got some Grado SR-80's which are great but the highs are too sharp on some of my electronica recordings and make my head hurt. Also I've got a lot of old Jazz records that I love to use the Grados with because they bring out all the details, but they're in mediocre shape and the Grados...

I call them bed-phones, because you can easily fall asleep in them. Great for studying in bed. They're soft and won't wake you up. Very dark and quiet in there.... no distractions. no harshness whatsoever. The UR-30's do in fact get to those lower frequencies, and they are easier to drive out...