[Gullanian]

Hi there,

I have a pair of HD650's, but no speakers in my room, so when my girlfriend comes over and we watch a film we turn the volume up pretty loud and place them infront of us, sound better than laptop speakers

but is it damaging the headphones?

I can't help but be a little worried! But I did hear something about built in clipping?

Thanks!

Tom

 

[PsychoZX]

Go to the store and pick up some cheap computer speakers. Headphones are ment to be used as headphones.

 

[chickennuggets]

if youve got them loud enough to hear a movie well enough to 'watch' the movie, im gonna go ahead and say its not good for them. you should get some speakers.

 

[Gullanian]

Don't they have built in clipping or something or was it rumour?

 

[Graz]

Clipping = distortion. "Built in clipping" would be a bad thing...certainly not something the marketing folks would want to hype up. It would be like selling CD players with built in skipping.

I'm guessing hd650's don't have built in clipping (in fact, I'm sure of it). I think ipod earbuds do though.

hd650's as movie speakers = bad idea.

Peace,

Graz

 

[jagorev]

That's a bad idea. Get some cheap $15 computer speakers instead.

The 650 should only clip at insanely loud volumes, or when plugged into an inadequate source.

 

[enjoi_rootbeer]

or you know, just put them on and she can sit really close to you

or buy a splitter and she can bring her own cans

 

[JahJahBinks]

U should put them on to see if the volume can make your ears bleed, if yes then you are putting too much stress on them, if not then something's wrong with them.

 

[Yeldarb]

Quote:

I can't help but be a little worried!

An expensive experiment if it goes wrong

Why not just snap off the headband and take an earpiece each?

 

[NotJeffBuckley]

That's headphone abuse. You're very badly mistreating your cans. If there were an organization that looked out for the rights of headphones, you'd be on their watch list for that.

 

[Jazz1]

Back in my college days I used to DJ one of our college's two radio stations. When things got slow we'd hang Koss Pro 4A's out the window, crank the vol. way up of the board, and use them to call the action for ad hoc baseball games on the quad. Within ten minutes they'd sizzle like bacon and go silent. The radio station manager couldn't figure out why he'd have to keep on replacing them

Over the years i've become kinder and more gentle, even with headphones.