I have had a pair of Bose AE2 cans for a few years now and am very happy with them. I know a lot of people have strong opinions on Bose and I am not a Bose fanboy by any means. I am suggesting these mainly because of the comfort level. The sound is decent (a bit lacking in bass), but they shine in how amazingly comfortable they are for a long session (think coast to coast and international flights). I have tried Sennheiser, Shure, Koss and AKG and I can’t keep any of them on for any significant length of time before they are uncomfortable or are giving me a headache.
Raccoon - you are lucky - I’ve had headphones before where the cable is too short - I’ve wrecked a few when the cable jerked and stretched and pulled out of the earpiece. You can always tie a few loops in the cable to shorten it.
I now only buy headphones with plug in jack type cables.
I bought my Wife a set of the Bose quiet comfort noise canceling headphones. She travels overseas fairly often with work. She says “I don’t know what I’d do without them”. They really are amazing inside a noisy airliner. The music and movie sound comes forward, and all the racket and jet noise moves to the distant background. She finds them extremely comfortable wearing them for long periods of time as well.
Hi new user here. I have the Brainwavz HM5 (better built version of XPT100) and have owned them for a few months. If anyone has any questions about them or wants impressions I would be glad to answer
“” I had few headphones displayed at that time, actually we were not into it really, and sorry to say this in this thread, headphones are considered an ‘unnatural’ way to listen to sound and specifically, Hi-Fi music!“”.
YES. Proper speakers ARE the best. No arguments. My KEF Columns were magnificent.
Pure not clinical.
BUT. When you sitting in lounge with wife and 2-3 kids .
The last thing they want to listen to is Tubular Bells. ANY Mahler or Sibelius, even Stravinsky.
Or Gillespie on half notes. Satch etc.
They are an “acceptable” alternative to “nothing, or else”.
If anybody is looking for a ‘value for money’ budget headphone, I would suggest a pair of these:
Bluedio is one of the up and coming Chinese audio companies and are theses are widely available in various online stores.
I was curious as to the quality, and bought a pair last week on eBay for about $US 28 (Cheaper than Banggood or Amazon).
For the price, the sound, comfort and build are excellent.
I mainly use them to watch movies or tv shows at home so I don’t disturb other people in the house.
They are also good to listen to music on the move, especially if you have expensive headphones that you don’t want to risk taking out with you.
They are bluetooth, but not noise cancelling. They even include FM radio, and a slot for micro SD card from which you can play music.
There are more expensive Bluedio models which have noise cancelling.
I’m not suggesting to you audiophiles that these are as good as your expensive brand name headphones, but as a back-up they are not bad at all,
I bought a Neoteck earmuff amplifier and was soaking up the… BossHiFi? Whatever ones you recommended, brown woodgrain ones.
Pretty nice, lots of oomf. Just for s&g, cranked up The Eminem’s “Lose Yourself”. Damn, the surrounds were even vibrating against my cheeks, giving me a nice facial massage. Aquatica’s “Deep And Wild” actually caused the critter to cut back for a few seconds. Guess when it hits a certain threshold and/or peak value, it folds back to prevent damage. Listening to Rammstein’s live version of “Links-2-3-4”, I wanted to get up and go invade Poland or something. I also now want a flamethrowing guitar…
The earmuffs were holding up pretty well, too. Definitely got some exercise with the cranked-up bass.
Anyhoo, they don’t seem too efficient, certainly not when using a laptop or cellphone to supply the audio, so the amp is a must-have. And unlike the Bose QC15s (really nice clean sound, I have to admit!), the amp doesn’t cut back abruptly when it hits too high a peak value. It’ll go to 11, just not 12.