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You might benefit JUST A BIT from improving reading comprehension and I shouldnt probably recommend headphones I havent listened to. Ive discovered that when you read from good reviewers, the definition of sound reproduction can be quite consistent and easy to understand, and is apart and differs from personal tastes. That is why, even without having listened to many headphones, I know what to expect from them and they dont surprise positive or negatively.
There are a lot of sad/hostile people around the forums lately... why?
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I'm neither sad nor hostile, though you've launched into the latter, I see. The point is that I value this website as a community and as a resource. The op asked a great question. Why not let others who can help him answer it? From your post, it's obvious that you haven't owned or even heard the D2000s or you would never have recommended them as a headphone for biking...but you recommend them anyway. Why? Why do you feel the need to throw in your two cents when it only interferes with other, genuinely helpful recommendations? It's really a question of how you value head-fi as a community, and as a helpful resource for people wanting answers. You can help dumb it down, as your two posts in this thread have done, or participate in a more respectful way.
You claim you should be able to post recommendations to others after only having read reviews. How the heck can you determine the value of those reviews if you have no base by which to judge their value? How the heck do you know which reviewers are inexperienced enthusiasts caught up in FOTMdom and which ones might actually know something. In the case of the D2000s, many (not all) fall into the former category. Tell me how you know which is which, who is who, and what is what? I wouldn't want a recommendation from someone who couldn't answer all those questions and also tell me why. And, if you'd actually really read a range of D2000 reviews yourself, you still wouldn't have recommended them for biking, especially when the op asked for portable recommendations. I can just see one of the cups falling off three kilometers down the road. So, your argument is crap. You're double-crap posting. Stop it.
So, to change this around....what quality portable headphones have you heard that you can recommend to the op? That's the question. What comparisons have you made between different portable headphones, maybe even some iems or full-sized ones, so that you can tell him about the differences in build, comfort, sq. That's what the op is looking for before putting good money down. Why not make those recommendations? If you don't have experience with closed portable headphones, no biggy, but for gawd sake stop posting for the sake of posting, which is what you've done. Head-fi has more than enough members who know what they're talking about here. Why not let them help, and stay out of the way if you don't have experience with the answers the op wants? And please don't get in a big ole bratty-snit for being called out on making recommendations on gear you haven't heard, when the recommendations are both ridiculous and potentially harmful. You deserve being called out for dumbing down the thread and adding more noise to the forum. That's on you, not on people who object to it.
Back on topic: op, the one thing about closed headphones and any kind of exercise is the sweat factor. I don't know about you, but I don't like it much. If you're not interested in iems, and are willing to consider open, I like the PX100s a lot for working out. No, they don't isolate all that well, but they don't get hot on your ears, can handle sweat, are lightweight and comfy, have decent sq, and are under $50, so you don't have worry too much if something happens to them. Just another thing to consider.
). I'm pretty happy with all three of these though I seem to prefer the SJ5 over the K81.
