So is it possible to go and actually
try headphones anywhere anymore? Best Buy only seems to carry at best a half-dozen models, and they're all sealed up tight. I've hardly seen any old-fashioned "stereo shops" around, everything seems to be done on-line nowadays, and I can't really justify spending hard-earned money on something so personal as 'phones without having a good idea ahead of time for how they're going to sound and feel. Is the idea that I'm first supposed to buy,
then try, then return (on my own dime), and start that cycle over again...and all based on opinions voiced by people I wouldn't know if I fell over them? What a drag. (And no, I'm not 87 years old and mad at those neighborhood kids walking on my lawn.)
I don't have much money, I have very highly-trained ears for the music I listen to (mostly but not exclusively classical), I'd like to get a pair of very isolating or noise-canceling 'phones to use with my iPod while taking walks, and I am feeling utterly overwhelmed by all the information and opinions flying around here. I've asked in detail in a separate thread, but what I want to know here is: Where do people go to check these things out?
--Bill