Massive headphones - WTF?

[sunnygym]

What's the deal with the massive headphones everyone seems to be wearing lately like they are some top Ibiza club DJ??

My opinion - they look like fkking idiots or am I just being a miserable old git? M

[Studio117]

If it downs out the voice of whiney old melters like yourself then I'm all for it.

[danjama]

I've always worn big headphones when I'm walking or travelling with my music. What's it got to do with you?? I don't care what people think of what I'm doing, but it's amusing that you care enough to post about it. Do you have self confidence issues?

[V8OW]

It's fashionable now apparently!

[sunnygym]

danjama said:

I've always worn big headphones when I'm walking or travelling with my music. What's it got to do with you?? I don't care what people think of what I'm doing, but it's amusing that you care enough to post about it. Do you have self confidence issues?

fk it,you got me, guess I just wish I was cool enough to copy everyone else and buy £200 professional DJ headphones with a 3m cord so I can listen to now 97 m my iPhone while sitting on the training work! Ha

[RemaL]

Well I'me happy with my little in the ear Bowers & Wilkins headphones.

I'm happy with small in the ear headphones, I don't wish to look like a tosser or keep up with the hipsters.

I could not really give a fk personally

[Digger]

I do cringe a little when I see over 30's wearing Beats on their bonce.

Otherwise, crack on.

[GrumpyTwig]

£600 iphone with £200 beats and then they're all listening to MP3s

Disclaimer: Monetary values are not accurate and just there to make a point that MP3s are not great.

[Mastodon2]

Big headphones that properly enclose the ear and have decently sized speakers in them tend to sound better than even top headphone like Bose noise-cancelling ones. I always think you look a bit of a knob wearing massive headphones in public, but the truth is that if you're out and about there is no clearer way to hear your music.

[D4ve820]

Do you think I give a st what you think?

[Ekona]

I automatically place anyone wearing Beats headphones into the same category as folks who don't indicate at roundabouts, and those who swear a Big Mac is better than a Whopper.


No. Just no.

[Studio117]

I've got my eye on some beyerdynamic dt990's.

Sadly I hate carrying anything be it bag, jacket, iPad etc.

Stuck with in ear ones.

:/

Beats are like an Audi diesel. Overpriced and lacking in dynamics. Just bass innit

[Impasse]

Studio117 said:

Beats are like an Audi diesel. Overpriced and lacking in dynamics. Just bass innit

I'm all about that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble.

[Studio117]

Impasse said:

Studio117 said:

Beats are like an Audi diesel. Overpriced and lacking in dynamics. Just bass innit

I'm all about that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble.

Cut the midrange drop the bass.

[sparkythecat]

Big phones are so 1960s

[King Herald]

I spend up to 350 hours, or more (Daily Wail speak) a year on long haul plane flights, and personal ear phones are a godsend I discovered ten years or more ago.

I started with some $50 noise reducing 'over ear' JVC units, which were good, but after 8 hours they squish your ear to the point of pain, and become unwearable.

The choice then was either giant over-ear headphones, or in-ear buds.

I'm glad I chose the buds now, and didn't become an object of ridicule.

[J4CKO]

twenty odd years ago I used to be really self concious of my Sennheisers, I loved them as they made my Walkman sound awesome but they looked weird with all the small headphones, I only wore them on planes, trains, coaches or in private but now everyone has massive headphones, mine werent all that big.

[davepoth]

I saw someone earlier today who was using their iPhone, holding it in that stupid way where they hold the microphone close to their mouth but the rest of the phone pointing away from them, but she was also wearing Beats headphones. I thought to myself "That's the stupidest thing I've seen all week."

[GroundEffect]

GrumpyTwig said:

£600 iphone with £200 beats and then they're all listening to MP3s

Disclaimer: Monetary values are not accurate and just there to make a point that MP3s are not great.

320kbps cannot be distinguished from FLAC or any other lossless media. It's all hype.

I've tried on my Shure earphones and my Denon hifi -> not worth the extra disc space. Plenty of studies out there too.

And OP, headphones (i.e. Beats etc) are in vogue. I use in-ear Sennheiser most of the time.

[Studio117]

I find it quite odd the amount of commuters in London sans Headphones. Surely any music/podcast/audiobook is better than silence and the general noise of the tube or train.