[geeks] Audio Recording

[gsm at mendelson.com]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:35:06PM -0500, Dan Sikorski wrote:
>I have a pair of ultimate ears that i often use on my laptop.  A good 
>quality of the headphones is their sensitivity, 10% volume on the 
>laptop is about the loudest i have ever listened to music with them.  
>Unfortunately, because of that sensitivity, i hear a lot of noise 
>from the laptop as well.  It's fine for when i put the earbuds in to 
>drown out the noise around me in the office, but for real listening, 
>i get annoyed by the noise pretty quickly.

I was very surpised by a pair of "Everyman" headphones I bought from SKYPE.

They really are designed for talking on your computer (complete with a
condenser mic on a boom), but for general listening to music they are pretty
good. 

They connect via USB, but the earphones have a plug that can be removed and
put into an MP3 player, etc. 

The bass is almost as good as my Nakacmici (sp?) headphones. If the Nakamichi
are a 10 on bass these are a 5, and 99% of the others, IMHO, are a 1. 

N.B. I can't wear closed heaphones nor earbuds. YMMV.

Geoff.

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