A thought or two on headphones

 

Well,
it has been a long journey. Looking for the right headphones has spanned a
couple years’ worth of trips to Best Buy and a couple days of internet
searching. After several purchase and return moves at Best Buy I first went
with some Sony MDR-EX300's. (About $80) The bass was deeper and the sound was
great compared to the stock buds that come with the Zune 80 GB I was
using.  When the ZuneHD came out I
upgraded my Zune. For a short time believed that this was as good as it could
get.

Nagging
at me was the idea that I could get better headphones. I wanted my music
experience to be even more rich with tonal range and louder than I could get
stock so I even tried to purchase a portable amplification unit for use with
MP3 Players. I did some research. The amp didn’t help. GIGO was definitely in
full effect. The Amp took poorly compressed audio files and made them loud. It
was returned.

I
started to look around at different industry websites related to Pro-Audio
equipment and sound reproduction and compression. How could I differentiate
between the different products if I didn’t really even understand what was on
the box right?

Well
after some additional “taste tests” I settled on the Monster Turbines. “Man, it
cannot get any better than these things.”  Small amount of sound leakage from the driver
units. Nice cord holding them all together. Great power response; they are
plenty loud on my MP3 Player. The Sony ear buds were great and still are in use
when traveling.

Hey
what’s better than those Monster Turbines? How about my recently acquired Dre
Beats Studio’s. Ok, these things leak sound like you wouldn’t believe. People
next to me tap me on the shoulder and when I lift the headphones off my head
they say, “I love that song.” But with that in mind, I don’t care. They are
awesome. The bulk of the Studio’s makes use while traveling burdensome. I would
hate to break them, so they typically get used at home.  When I travel I use the Turbines.  Whether it is with my COWON x7 or V5HD, The
Turbines and the Studios are amazing.

COWON, Love and Hate. Naw...Still all LOVE!

Well, it was a great day last week. I received the factory refurbished COWON V5HD that I ordered the week prior on Amazon.com. I remember taking it out of the package and holding it in my hands. I sent out this tweet to let the world, and more immediately my followers know, just how I felt.

Well, that was short lived. Soon I realized that this particular refurbished unit was more RE and less furbished. Parts of the screen were gray and the audio sounded like a flat unamplified EQ was set, even when it wasn't.

The silver lining to the story here is that through the STERLING CUSTOMER SERVICE of JetAudio, Inc (COWON USA) the product price is going to be refunded to me.

The question now becomes, what COWON will I buy to replace it?

 

I guess I am doing something right....

Today when I logged in to my RexRaveR Blog I had a couple more comments then usual. They were spam but all the same. Looks like I showed up on some new radars. Even if they are internet spam bot radars. :)

My OLD Samsung YP-T9J Sounds Better then my iPod Touch 4th Gen.

Just found and plugged up my old Samsung YP-T9J and after a few minutes of charging I loaded some tracks. Expecting to hear a MAJOR fall off in sound quality from what I have become accustomed to, being that I have all the Zunes, an iPod Touch 4th Gen and the Cowon X7, I was blown away. It sounds better then all my other players with exception to the Cowon x7. It has an EQ, 3D Settings and Bass Boost. The Audio is great! There is no fall out from the other frequencies as the bass and treble are adjusted.

Nice Job Samsung.

The headphones I am using for this comparison are the Monster Turbines and also the Dre Beats Studios. The new Baby Anne CD is killing my ear drums while I move about.

New Baby Anne Album

Just downloaded the new Baby Anne (@Octanebaby)Album, Bottom Heavy. Did the preview thing before I hit purchase, and after a couple tracks I knew I had to get it. Huge fan of Icey (@DJ_Icey)and this stuff is very similar in style.
You can get it from iTunes.

Awesome!

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Just a thought...

When did it become so popular to bash the US?