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Grado or Grado-fit Pads That Don't Rot
My trusty daily-driver Sennheiser HD201 has pads that get used every day for years and years and years and they're fine. My Grados -- I have a bunch from SR60 to SR 325 -- seldom get used and not only do the pads rot but they poo sticky dust all over everything when they do. If Sennheiser can...- SkinnyOldGuy
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Hello. Where do I post to ask about wireless headphones (900mHz)?
Hello. Where do I post to ask about wireless headphones (900mhz)? Here? What's the good one these days, that doesn't cost as much as a car? And, if there's a step-up distancewise from 900mHz I'd love to hear about that too. Thank you kindly.- SkinnyOldGuy
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Hello. I need small buds or iems or whatever....
Hello. What do you like for small buds that cost almost nothing? When I run power tools and lawnmowers I try to put my Sansa Clip buds in and then industrial ear muffs over them but the Sansa buds have long legs that lever the buds out when the muffs come on. Mostly podcasts, no bass...- SkinnyOldGuy
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The Sony MDR-RF985RK and others with proprietary batteries
Splendid. Thank you.- SkinnyOldGuy
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Is the "none" eq on the ipod an eq?
I've never used an ipod so maybe this question has no relevance, but it appears that ipods come with equalization presets. Presumably, one of those presets is "none". Is "none" actually a preset eq intended to equal-ize the earbuds that are provided with the stock ipod? Or is it...- SkinnyOldGuy
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What's the frequency, Kenneth? ( Advent / Recoton Wireless Headphones )
YES !!! 912.5 mHz to 914.5 mhz... THANKS! SOG- SkinnyOldGuy
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What's the frequency, Kenneth? ( Advent / Recoton Wireless Headphones )
Hello there. I hope that you are well and enjoying life in general. Does anyone have the manual for the Advent / Recoton 900mHz wireless headphones model W500 or similar? The ones with that flying-saucer-like antenna on the transmitter... If you do, would you care to share the...- SkinnyOldGuy
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The Sony MDR-RF985RK and others with proprietary batteries
I need a respectable pair of general-purpose headphones, and one of the Sony MDR-RF985RKs that people are unloading on ebay seem to be a perfect choice. I've never been really stiffed by Sony. Although, that's not to say it couldn't happen. These cans apparently have non-user-replaceable...- SkinnyOldGuy
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It appears to me
But it would be absolutely better if there were a subforum where inquiries get headings that people could open, read, and participate in instead of being buried in one mile-long thread. Lots of things work, but some of them work badly. Sog- SkinnyOldGuy
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It appears to me
It appears to me that the ghettoizing of recommendations into a single thread has killed the service of requesting and receiving recommendations. It doesn't work. I could see designating a forum for recommendations, if you want to take them out to the stream of everything else. But...- SkinnyOldGuy
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Buying portable or in-ear headphones? Seeking guidance? DON'T START A NEW THREAD. Ask for advice HERE!
I think that I tried to post to this thread and I think that I never got a response -- searches don't pick up any -- so I think I'll try again since there's a whole new set of people here today. I need a single in-ear monitor. It only needs to be hi-fi to the extent that it needs to have...- SkinnyOldGuy
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Buying portable or in-ear headphones? Seeking guidance? DON'T START A NEW THREAD. Ask for advice HERE!
Here's a new pursuit for you. I want a single earbud. It'll plug into some kind of homemade mono amp in my guitar. I'll use it to give myself cue notes for singing, which I need for some keys. It doesn't have to be expensive because it's only ever going to reproduce one note at a...- SkinnyOldGuy
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Tracking Vocals and the Sennheiser HD 201
Major advance today. I had been using Audio-Technica ATH-M20 for a monitor for recording vocals. Why? Decent price, covered the ears and didn't leak too much, no knucklehead bass, just a plain ham-and-eggs set of isolation cans. But today I just got tired of that tangly coil cord...- SkinnyOldGuy
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Replacing the cable on Audio Technica ATH-M20
Hello. I use Audio Technica ATH-20 for tracking -- it's cheap and it's closed. But unfortunately it has a curly cord, which I just don't like. I can easily get any kind of cable I want but if anyone would be so kind as to help me with some advice on how to get inside these things...- SkinnyOldGuy
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Well, the Sennheiser HD-201 turned out to be the best one.
Some while ago, I was casting about for some headphones that I'd use mostly for voice: Radio, tracking vocals on recordings, podcasts and books, and so forth. Everything that I tried or was recommended to me had some kind of ugly bass boost. Maybe when I was 13 I would have wanted bass...- SkinnyOldGuy
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Burn-in. Real or not?
"Believe" is a very dangerous word, because it takes the matter of whether you are ignorant or not out of your hands. If you choose not to "believe" something that turns out not to be true, congratulations, you're a justified skeptic. If, on the other hand, what you choose not to believe...- SkinnyOldGuy
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Do they even make what I like any more?
Those HD228s look promising. I wonder whether there's a way to replace those vinyl seat covers with foam pads of some sort. Don't let this serve as a discussion-ender but I'm grateful for all the help. Thanks, guys. Sog- SkinnyOldGuy
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Do they even make what I like any more?
Dig this. Five days and exactly one reply. Which sounded like fun and I was all ready to jump on it except apparently if you buy two phones and two cards of replacement foams, Amazon charges you four shipping charges. That won't do. So off I go to find another vendor and what...- SkinnyOldGuy
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Do they even make what I like any more?
After several years of brutal abuse and several pad and plug replacements, my trusty Sony lightweight phones finally expired. I can't even tell you what they were, they went out in the trash already. And goshdarnit, I can't find anything like them to replace them with. Everything now is...- SkinnyOldGuy
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I need Wireless. I have really weird requirements.
Currently, Senn RS160, RS170, and RS180 are using Kleer. Older models RS120, RS130, and RS140 are still using RF. I wonder that if you tried the older models. Huh. I bet you're right. It makes sense that the headphones might have been in my friend's posession for a while. I am...- SkinnyOldGuy
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I need Wireless. I have really weird requirements.
Well, yeah, cables are nice but this is about running freely around a four-stories-plus-porch-and-maybe-plus-yard house. So they changed the RS headphone products over to something that they call Kleer? It's a little hard for me to relate to silly marketing names like that -- if anything...- SkinnyOldGuy
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I need Wireless. I have really weird requirements.
Well, the reason I want wireless head phones is so I can stream Pandora and interact with my stations, listen to the leftie wierdos and the rightie wierdos on the radio, monitor my digital archiving of lots of analog that I own, and listen to out-of-town radio via their streams. And some other...- SkinnyOldGuy
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I need Wireless. I have really weird requirements.
Hello, I just searched a few dozen threads here and it looks like I need to ask my own question. I seldom miss things that I lose but I really miss my wireless headphones. I could live with them on; zooming around the house, in the shop, on the porch, streaming radio or music or...- SkinnyOldGuy
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What's so bad about Bose?
1. The word "Bose" is very useful as a snob detector. 2. Cousin Danny's Bose radio really is the best sound he ever had and is the best sound he's ever going to have. And God bless them all. Sog- SkinnyOldGuy
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