pianoplayer88key
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Looks like this maybe has been blown a bit out of proportion..... ok first off, the few times it has been caught in the bicycle gear, the bike was NOT operating - it was just sitting there, and I was standing beside the bike adjusting a few things, and the headphones fell off my ears and onto the bicycle gear. Also they have a couple times been caught under the seat post / back tire/brake area (again while the bike was sitting still) when they fell off.
Actually though they seem to be cracking while around my ears or something... I DO take better care of them than you guys seem to think, but I don't baby them like some people do theirs. (If I have to baby something, why should I even have it (unless it's some decoration like a fancy vase or something)?)
I picked up a pair of JVC Marshmallows. They seem to be ok, although I'm having to use the large tips to get any isolation at all. Hopefully those will last long enough for me to find something else that'll last a long time.
About my budget vs having them last a long time -- I am willing to pay more up front for these headphones, because I want them to last enough longer than the cheap ones (assuming the same rough treatment that the cheapies get) to actually have them be less expensive in the long run. For example, if a cheap $20 pair lasts 3 months, then (since I want the price/longevity ratio to IMPROVE with increasing price) 18 months for a $120 pair would actually be way too short. Also, I should have been concerned as soon as I saw that the cables were very thin. If properly designed would thicker cables last longer?
Also quite often my headphones wear out / break because the wires get stressed. Are there any in my price range that will withstand this (go to about 2:50)?
If the marshmallows last longer than the Phonaks did, then it will confirm that P's QC is far beneath the sewers imo.
If asking for 15 years in an IEM is unreasonable... would 10 be more reasonable, or at least 7-8? (2-3 might be ok if the price is around $50-70 or so.) Or should I look at something different besides an IEM? A couple reasons I picked IEM are because they're supposed to have better isolation than a full-size headphone, they're more compact for storage, they can be worn while you're wearing a helmet (although when I'm bicycling with them I don't insert them as deep so I can still hear some outside sounds - are there full-size headphones that you can wear with a helmet on?), among other things.
I'll repeat. When it was caught in the bicycle parts, the bicycle was NOT operating at the time! And yes getting caught in bicycle gear is NOT the type of use I have planned for these, or had planned for the Phonaks. It's just that sometimes I forget that I'm still attached to the headphones when trying to divorce myself from the equipment I'm listening to, or they fall over something, or other things...
I generally liked the sound of the Phonaks, though, except for being a little harder to drive than I was hoping (sometimes it wasn't loud enough even when I cranked up my Creative ZEN or the Realtek ALC889A audio on my Gigabyte GA-MA69G-S3H, for example), and having an anemic bass compared to what I was hoping for. I wanted to be able to FEEL the low frequencies on the Bosendorfer grand piano, or the 64-foot contra-trombone stop (as low as 8 Hz) on an organ that has it, and of course be able to hear them. I hope my next one can faithfully reproduce these low bass frequencies...
Actually though they seem to be cracking while around my ears or something... I DO take better care of them than you guys seem to think, but I don't baby them like some people do theirs. (If I have to baby something, why should I even have it (unless it's some decoration like a fancy vase or something)?)
I picked up a pair of JVC Marshmallows. They seem to be ok, although I'm having to use the large tips to get any isolation at all. Hopefully those will last long enough for me to find something else that'll last a long time.
About my budget vs having them last a long time -- I am willing to pay more up front for these headphones, because I want them to last enough longer than the cheap ones (assuming the same rough treatment that the cheapies get) to actually have them be less expensive in the long run. For example, if a cheap $20 pair lasts 3 months, then (since I want the price/longevity ratio to IMPROVE with increasing price) 18 months for a $120 pair would actually be way too short. Also, I should have been concerned as soon as I saw that the cables were very thin. If properly designed would thicker cables last longer?
Also quite often my headphones wear out / break because the wires get stressed. Are there any in my price range that will withstand this (go to about 2:50)?
If the marshmallows last longer than the Phonaks did, then it will confirm that P's QC is far beneath the sewers imo.
If asking for 15 years in an IEM is unreasonable... would 10 be more reasonable, or at least 7-8? (2-3 might be ok if the price is around $50-70 or so.) Or should I look at something different besides an IEM? A couple reasons I picked IEM are because they're supposed to have better isolation than a full-size headphone, they're more compact for storage, they can be worn while you're wearing a helmet (although when I'm bicycling with them I don't insert them as deep so I can still hear some outside sounds - are there full-size headphones that you can wear with a helmet on?), among other things.
I'll repeat. When it was caught in the bicycle parts, the bicycle was NOT operating at the time! And yes getting caught in bicycle gear is NOT the type of use I have planned for these, or had planned for the Phonaks. It's just that sometimes I forget that I'm still attached to the headphones when trying to divorce myself from the equipment I'm listening to, or they fall over something, or other things...
I generally liked the sound of the Phonaks, though, except for being a little harder to drive than I was hoping (sometimes it wasn't loud enough even when I cranked up my Creative ZEN or the Realtek ALC889A audio on my Gigabyte GA-MA69G-S3H, for example), and having an anemic bass compared to what I was hoping for. I wanted to be able to FEEL the low frequencies on the Bosendorfer grand piano, or the 64-foot contra-trombone stop (as low as 8 Hz) on an organ that has it, and of course be able to hear them. I hope my next one can faithfully reproduce these low bass frequencies...