Silentpug387
Head-Fier
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My campus (University of Chicago) has always been anti-social so it was common to see a lot of kids walking around listning to their mp3 players. But they always had small, $20 and under circuit city-esque type headphones.
A year ago i told my friends in high school that i spent $230 on a pair of headphones and they said i was crazy. I tried to explain how it didn't make sense to spend 300 something bucks on a ipod, and not be able to HEAR the music. They wouldn't listen.
But over the last two weeks on my college campus I have noticed a dramatic decrease in the traditional white ipod earbuds and a huge increase in higher end headphones. Today, for example, I saw a slew of large silver sony and aiwa headphones, three or four kids with grado sr80's, and a kid riding the bus with a pair of sr325i's. Never before today had i even heard the word grado mentioned at my college. I sat down at lunch, and one of my classmates was talking about how she just bought a pair of Sony vdr-7000, and a kid talking about how she should have gotten sennheisers or grados.
As a logical progression from the ipod craze over the last few years, i think high-end headphones becoming the "next cool thing" in music hardware.
When i see Paris Hilton in some magazine shopping in beverly hills with a pair of k1000's i'll know i was right.
A year ago i told my friends in high school that i spent $230 on a pair of headphones and they said i was crazy. I tried to explain how it didn't make sense to spend 300 something bucks on a ipod, and not be able to HEAR the music. They wouldn't listen.
But over the last two weeks on my college campus I have noticed a dramatic decrease in the traditional white ipod earbuds and a huge increase in higher end headphones. Today, for example, I saw a slew of large silver sony and aiwa headphones, three or four kids with grado sr80's, and a kid riding the bus with a pair of sr325i's. Never before today had i even heard the word grado mentioned at my college. I sat down at lunch, and one of my classmates was talking about how she just bought a pair of Sony vdr-7000, and a kid talking about how she should have gotten sennheisers or grados.
As a logical progression from the ipod craze over the last few years, i think high-end headphones becoming the "next cool thing" in music hardware.
When i see Paris Hilton in some magazine shopping in beverly hills with a pair of k1000's i'll know i was right.