jeffw_00
New Head-Fier
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Hi - I want a pair of good sounding headphones as follows:
1) efficient - so I can hear well while biking with my iRiver with volume only 3/4 of the way up (I find that any headphones with an in-line volume control fail this test and need max gain, plus, from the player to be heard)
2) classic (old-fashioned) walkman phones design (full but open air cups)
3) very light
4) inexpensive (<= $20 ish?)
I'm funding, unfortunately, that headphones near the high end of the dollar range sound ok but require more volume. By contrast the $7 radioshack model has no volume control, is quite efficient, comfortable, but sounds bad. I'm almost temped to just cut the volume control off my older, better-sounding radio shack phones and see if that makes them more efficient...
any suggestions?
/j
1) efficient - so I can hear well while biking with my iRiver with volume only 3/4 of the way up (I find that any headphones with an in-line volume control fail this test and need max gain, plus, from the player to be heard)
2) classic (old-fashioned) walkman phones design (full but open air cups)
3) very light
4) inexpensive (<= $20 ish?)
I'm funding, unfortunately, that headphones near the high end of the dollar range sound ok but require more volume. By contrast the $7 radioshack model has no volume control, is quite efficient, comfortable, but sounds bad. I'm almost temped to just cut the volume control off my older, better-sounding radio shack phones and see if that makes them more efficient...
any suggestions?
/j