robm321 says,
"Who wears their headphones out in public to look good? No one I know - it's usually behind closed doors and no non audio enthusiast is going to be impressed by how good someones (sic) headphones look - speakers maybe, but headphones - are you serious?"
I'm very serious.
I don't wear my headphones out in public. Not to look good, not to look bad. Indeed, I wear them behind closed doors. Absolutely no one except my wife sees me wear them, and then not often.
And yet the Sennheiser HD800's looks displease me. Me. They offend my aesthetic sensibilities. I do not like the way that they look. Putting them on will be off-putting, so to speak. I wish that they could have had better, cleaner styling. The way that they look makes me feel bad. They look like old Sonys, the SA5000. Since when is copying a loser, and an antiquated one at that, a good idea?
Why are you talking "fashion" here, or about how other people might perceive them, or about "impressing"? The real issue is, for many of us, whether or not they have an artistic, classy design, as perceived by us, the wearers and end users, and us alone, in the privacy of our own rooms.
Wearers of headphones are not androids devoid of feeling. We want something that both sounds good and looks good. For us. Alone. As sentient, complete packages, as whole human beings.
BTW, I've pre-ordered the HD800 and look forward to the sound. I wish that I could look forward to looking at them and having them in my home, sound aside!
((It's at this point that people say that the HD800 "look better in person," which is like saying, "Yes, she's a dog, but she cooks well and has money and doesn't smell too bad up close." It's also at this point that people say that the HD800 probably look the way that they do because they "have to" in order to sound good, which I sincerely doubt, but is slightly more plausible, since you can't argue with an engineer.
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