Headphones and Headphonic

I got myself a new mp3 player, so it was time I replace my old head­phones with a bet­ter pair. Head­phones make a big dif­fer­ence, even to someone who suf­fers from mild hear­ing prob­lems, like me. I do not trust the cheap pair included in the box with any music player.

A quick search of the web turned up a few recom­mend­a­tions, then it was a quick google of “head­phones perth” to see what was avail­able loc­ally. I found Head­phonic, a local com­pany selling head­phones by both mail order and over the counter. (Warn­ing JS they are just over a five minute walk from your office and their range will have you drool­ing). In addi­tion to e-commerce side of the site, there is a forum for advice on head­phones. After read­ing a few posts, I had refined my list to two mod­els of head­phones. A quick trip to Leed­erville later and I am the proud own­ers of a pair of Sen­nhe­iser CX300 and Koss KSC-75 headphones.

Why two pairs of good head­phones instead of one great pair. Well some­body whose hear­ing has been dam­aged by 15 years of live music is not cap­able of appre­ci­at­ing the dif­fer­ence between good and great head­phones (unlike the dif­fer­ence between aver­age and good pair), should stick to good head­phones. Espe­cially when they des­troys head­phones, the life expect­ancy of head­phones in my hands and ears is little over a year.

More import­antly, the two head­phones are quite dif­fer­ent in style and will be used in dif­fer­ent situ­ations. The CX300 are canal earphones, which are good for isol­at­ing you from back­ground noise, par­tic­u­larly on bus and plane rides. Unfor­tu­nately, I don’t like wear­ing canal head­phones for long peri­ods, which will make the upcom­ing flights to and from Sydney a little uncom­fort­able, but for the 45 minute trip to and from work more than accept­able. The KSC-75 head­phones are open, over the ear head­phones, because there is no con­nect­ing head­band, the head­phones work well under a hel­met ( a big plus for me) and because they are open they can be worn at work and you can still hear the phone ring and col­leagues ask­ing ques­tions, as long as the volume is not too loud.

A proper review will have to wait, but so far so good, I can not fault the sound qual­ity. The KSC-75 are very com­fort­able and I spend­ing a lot of time listen­ing to music while work­ing, while the CX300 have done their job and isol­ated me from the sounds of noisy bus ride as I write this.

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