Tuesday, February 19, 2008

The best headphones ever

"Wow, these wireless headphones are fantastic. They sound exactly as if I were playing my music out loud."

They were watching the hockey game - loudly - and had set me up with earphones so I could continue to listen to music instead of feigning interest in the hockey game while actually planning out what I wanted to do after the hockey game is over.

5 minutes later, the game had quieted down for a commercial and I thought, these headphones are too good to be true. As I took them off, I realized everyone was looking at me, and sure enough, I had my earphones plugged into the wrong port.

Now they are connected properly but, you know, the sound just isn't the same.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

In 1995 I first tried on a pair of Sony MDR-V6 headphones. I was working as a full-time Unix sysadmin (for co-op credit) in the Department of Computer Science at BGSU and my supervisor had a pair that he loaned me for a day. I was so impressed that I bought a pair the next day and it's still the only model of full-sized headphones that I buy.

The price has come down quite a bit since then. They can be had on Yahoo Shopping for less than $75 in a few stores. If you try Amazon, you'll find that they're currently not in stock (and seem not to be most of the time).

A few weeks ago I ordered two more of these. I wanted a newer pair for work and a pair for home as well. The ones I had at work were showing their nearly 10 years of age but still sounded excellent.

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