[White Mike]

For me this is just the sort of marketing gimmick that Ultrasone should be avoiding.
Certainly not the sort of 'technology' focus I would like to see from a company that purports to be so high-end.

 

[Navyblue]

My brain emits radiation, I mean infra red radiation, assuming that you are alive.

 

[NiceCans]

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Originally Posted by WittyzTH /img/forum/go_quote.gif too bad.. Peter Pinna already left head-fi.

this just may bring him back!


I'm sorry, but the phrase "Ultrasone's $1,500 pair of radiation reducing Edition 9 headphones" just sounds like it is a high-tech tin-foil hat to me.

One that took 9 tries to fold properly into said hat

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Originally Posted by Kees /img/forum/go_quote.gif I usually get the impression that there aren't a lot of people that need to worry about brain cancer.

On a more serious note I look forward to the reviews (and subsequent FOTM fervor)

 

[Nocturnal310]

Lyrics from 'In the Shadows - The Rasmus'

Quote:

No sleep No sleep until I am done with finding the answer Won't stop Won't stop before I find a cure for this cancer

AAAAAAAAAND ... Ultrasone must go on..they are not even close to cause of Cancer

 

[xxbaker]

well technically, most headphones provide some alpha and beta shielding because those are particles, but gamma? that stuff can mess you up.

also that article is ridiculous

 

[G-man]

seriously, no one gets the sarcasm?
ultrasone has been talking about reducing radiation for a long time with their pro range. so why all the fuss?

 

[BigTony]

If you want to avoid radiation, keep out of the 'death rays' being emitted by the big yellow thing in the sky!

BT

 

[spinali]

I understand the basic gist of this conversation, but (not to stray too far from the topic), brain cancer is a particular risk in two major situations. First, microwave radiation (like the kind that cops use to detect speeding motorists), and picking at pustules in the head area. The latter risks material passing directly through the blood-brain barrier.

Headphones emit slight magnetic radiation, which should be very safe. If headphones were a health risk, you'd hear about it.

 

[ericj]

Basically this amounts to sticking a sheet of high-permeability metal on either side of your head to protect yourself from the EM fields thrown off by the voice coil.

However, sticking your head between two pieces of high-permeability metal will also amplify the local power of fields that don't originate right next to them.

So if you were to wear these and sit in front of a CRT computer monitor, you would decrease the dose of EM that you might get from the headphones while greatly increasing the dose of EM that your head gets from the monitor.

Frankly the only solution that makes any kind of sense is to switch to electrostatic headphones.

 

[bada bing]

I wonder if the PRo900 will have the mid-gamma roll off and spike in upper alpha range the rest of the PRO series does ?
Also, I would think with S-logic+, you have no worries, because even if radiation got in your skull, it wouldn't concentrate on any one point but would be diffuse across the entire cranial area.

 

[Peter Pinna]

I was using headphones for many years prior to the manufacture of any Ultrasone headphone and you would think that if brains caused headphone cacner, I would have.....what was I writing about? where am I? who am I? Oh, yes, I remember now.... it by now so probably telephones don't cause headphone brian.

 

[spinali]

I have an amusing image of the validation studies, with generations of white mice running around wearing little headphones all day long.

Seriously, if someone ends up buying one of these things for their "health benefits," I won't try to dissuade the from wasting their cash. That's what Head-Fi is all about, after all.

 

[ericj]

The health & safety angle is actually the primary reason i will never purchase an ultrasone product. I won't give my money to a company that engages in such hucksterism.

The secondary reason, of course, is the fletcher-munson inspired frequency response curve. If i wanted peaks there i would have EQ'd them in.

 

[user123456]

There is more chance to get struck by lightning than to get cancer from a headphone.

Anyone who says otherwise tell me about a case about someone getting cancer from a headphone?