Which is your headphone?

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Which is your headphone?

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The "what are you listening to" question, leads me to another question. Which headphones do you use? I've been trying to get a list of the best headphones used for music. I wonder which headphones are used the most.
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This may turn into a battle between Bose and Beats. Beats is getting a lot of press since Apple bought them. The only thing I've tried is my daughters Hesh headphones and they work for me and cost somewhere around Baht 2,500. Bose and Beats would have to be awful good for someone to spend around Baht 10,000+, and for someone who is more than just a casual user. Pete :cheers:
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This may turn into spam! :roll:
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buksida wrote:This may turn into spam! :roll:
Don't wait then, dump the thread. Pete :cheers:
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I've had a pair of high end Shure noise cancelling in ear headphones for over a decade and they still do a great job. Cost $175 originally but well worth the money.

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My brain is like an Internet browser; 12 tabs are open and 5 of them are not responding, there's a GIF playing in an endless loop,... and where is that annoying music coming from?
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Big over-ear cordless Sennheisers. Can still hear the dog barking (which is what I want), and great sound quality. This for the PC when I'm watching TV - got Beats for the phone.

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Sennheiser HD540 Reference Gold over ear open design. 30 yrs old and now a collectors item - simply brilliant
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hhfarang wrote:I've had a pair of high end Shure noise cancelling in ear headphones for over a decade and they still do a great job. Cost $175 originally but well worth the money.

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Likewise I have a pair of Shure in-ear phones similar to these and they are the only things I can cope with more than 30 minutes of before they get painful. To be clear, they are noise isolating and not noise cancelling as they have a fairly tight seal around the ear canal to block external noise as opposed to active circuitry that feeds sound waves out of phase from the ambient noise into your ear to reduce it. I use these on my daily train commute.

I also have a pair of Bose QC15 noise-cancelling headphones that I use on long-haul flights. While they are bulky and eat batteries, for me they are worth every penny.
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Admin edit: banned - spam removed, why even bother.
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