[AdamCalifornia]

Let's talk only about dynamic type headphones.

First, how do you call supra-aural and circumaural together as a family of headphones?
More precisely, a family of supra-aural cans plus a family of circumaural cans is a family of what?

- Full-size cans? NO, because this description is reserved for circumaural.


Now, AKG K-1000 are neither circumaural nor supra-aural.
How do you call headphones as AKG K-1000?
They are 'something between circumaural and supra-aural'?

Mebbe the following will be helpful or mebbe not?


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Ear speakers, not headphones Even beyond the famed Stax electrostats that pioneered the term, the K-1000s are earspeakers, not headphones. The wire-mesh protected transducer panels are 2.5" wide x 4.25" high x 1" thick. They're hinge-mounted to the front of the crossbraces that hold the contact pads and connect the two red metal frames on each side. The rear contact pad is mounted to a slider that allows width adjustment for the most comfortable head fitting.

Taken from here.

By the way, 'Ear speakers' or 'earspeakers'? - Ha, ha, ....

Finally, how do you call dynamic Supra-aural, circumaural, and AKG K-1000 together as one family?

Note that I've excluded IEMs/in-ear (Shure, ....)headphones.

What are other headphones - like AKG K-1000 - which are neither circumaural nor supra-aural (Not counting IEMs)?

P.S.
I am not interested in ear buds, street style cans and similar cheapies.

 

[xkRoWx]

How do you get circumaural and supra-aural together in one headphone? It either sits in your ears, on your ears, around your ears, or in the K1000 case, on your head danglin'..

K1000 is not a headphone, but dynamic ear speakers (with or without the space, it doesn't matter). It needs a speaker power amp to be driven well.

 

[rhythmdevils]

George Bush?

 

[AdamCalifornia]

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Originally Posted by rhythmdevils /img/forum/go_quote.gif George Bush?

Upon a time during a Town Hall Meeting I asked him the following question:

Quote:

Sir, how to call a family of headphones consisting of a family of circumaural cans plus a family of supra-aural cans?

... and this was his reaction!

 

[The Monkey]

Taken together, I would call them "headphones."

 

[AdamCalifornia]

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Originally Posted by The Monkey /img/forum/go_quote.gif Taken together, I would call them "headphones."

Dear Monkey, why don't you want to see?

Headphones means also IEMs, which I don't want to consider.
I think that there is no name fo such a class.
One should use a 'complement' approach,
ie. the whole class of dynamic headphones minus (less) IMEs:

" .... hi-fi dynamic headphones (except IMEs) ..."

But what about the AKG K1000?
Would they be included in the above description?
Or should one say:

" .... hi-fi dynamic headphones (except IMEs) and earphones ..."

It means that I want: circumaural and supra-aural and earphones!



Am I right, brothers?

 

[The Monkey]

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Originally Posted by AdamCalifornia /img/forum/go_quote.gif Am I right, brothers?

No. They're called "headphones."

 

[boomana]

uh......

Adam, they're all called headphones just like all dogs are called dogs, even though you can have a Beagle, a German Shepard, or one of those horrid little ratlike yapping things people like to carry around in purses. Dogs, all of 'em. You can call different types of headphones anything you choose, but it won't mean they're not headphones, all of 'em.

 

[rhythmdevils]

I still vote for naming them George Bush

 

[Punnisher]

I don't see why full-size headphones only means circumaural. Where is that written?

 

[suicidal_orange]

Aren't IEM's and earbuds earphones while anything with a headband are headphones? That's what I've always thought...

 

[Joelby]

What is the point of this?

Are you ever going to be in such a rush that, when referring to headphones and K-1000s, you cannot string the words together to differentiate them and must group them into one "family" ?

I'm sorry but this is as silly a thread as they come!

 

[KONAKONA]

Postin' in a troll thread.

If it sits on your head and makes noise aimed more or less for your personal listening, then they are headphones. You can classify them as much as you want but they will always be headphones.

 

[454Casull]

I am genuinely interested in how much sleep you lose over this.

 

[limpidglitch]

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