[3602]

Aren't there supposed to be little bumps (like Braille) on there somewhere? The HD215 does anyway...

 

[Danneq]

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I have the Hd-25 IIs and to that guys defense it only tells you which cups are right or left on the wires connecting to each respective cup...
 

 
Oh! I just saw that on my pair now after reading your post!
 
The HD25 1:II are different from other headphones that I've got (ATH-M50, ATH-ES7, AKG K420, Sennheiser PX100, V-Jays) in that they can be worn backwards without feeling uncomfortable or strange. They seem to be completely symmetrically designed. (500th post!)

 

[cyberspyder]

Easy, the red strain relief is right, and by power of deduction (assuming you don't label it as up, down, diagonally, upside down etc...) the other side is left (signified by the black strain relief).

 

[3602]

Yeah I thought Red for Right is like, industrial standard now...

 

[cyberspyder]

Yeah I thought Red for Right is like, industrial standard now...

Apparently not for some unexplained reason...

 

[dagothur]

I saw a pair of white V-Modas today.
 

 

[PhoenixClaw]

I saw a guy with IEMS (i dont know which, but they had a silver braided cable and were used from an iPhone 4) in the MRT. I think they were IE8s. I've seen at least 10 beats headphones this week too

 

[chinesekiwi]

 

Who knows, they could be stupid enough to use them for monitoring. Or maybe im just stupid enough to actually believe it .

they'll most likely use DT770's or Sony V6 / MDR-7506's for monitoring. This is really due to package deals rather than them being actual good monitoring headphones.

 

[canoners]

I saw a Monster Turbine.

 

[Melvins]

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Icy, it's product placement. lol they don't use them to monitor.

haha exactly. Didn't someone here say they saw a commercial where Eminem was wearing a pair of Denons?
 

 

[EternalEmpire]

Saw some Sony XB700s a few days ago, and some XB300 or 500 (not sure which) later the same day. They look really goofy, especially slung around someone's neck.

 

[Melvins]

Yeah but hey, at least they sound good. Saw some grado sr60i's today, some porta pros last week, and this dude that I see everywhere as I think sennheiser 595's. He's a bugger and a half though.

 

[Danneq]

 
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Yeah I thought Red for Right is like, industrial standard now...

Well, that's one industrial standard I was completely unaware of. So it seems I have been wearing my HD25 1:II backwards since I figured that they go with the headphone industrial standard of single entry cords going into the left earcup. But it seems like Sennheiser chose to go their own way with the HD25...
 
 

 

[Griffinhart]

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Yeah I thought Red for Right is like, industrial standard now...

In what industry? From a cursory glance at some Google hits, it seems like (at least in the US) every college has its own color standards for data cables. Wikipedia's list of electrical cable color standards imply that there are different standards for different regions (and further explicitly notes that "many local rules and exceptions exist").
 
In the basic computer engineering class I took as a freshman, we didn't even have cable color standards when we were messing around with breadboards and RC cars.
 
-- Griffinhart

 

[3602]

Well... Um. In terms of home audio, whatever RCA cables that I have came along all had their right jacks colored red. So...