All 3 pairs from my family's assortment of iPods, as well as the 20 replacement pairs I got from Apple since they broke
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iPod Who uses the headphones that come with your ipod?
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What is everyone doing with the headphones to make them break? It took my original pair of iPod headphones about two and a half years to break (November 2005 to May 2008).
I usually fall asleep with them on, and that's how quite a few died. Some hit pavement pretty hard (It took 8 drops for my iPod Video Headphone input to stop working, which was good that it didn't go much sooner), and a couple were in other.
I really liek them though, and I got all my replacements for free since they were all under the 1 year warrenty (So I saved myself about $700 dollars). I really like them though, even better than the pair of Bose In-Ear Headphones that I broke twice
How the fetch did you save 700 bucks in a year? You telling me you went through 23 sets of headphones in a year? 2 a month!
Thats some kind of record.
I still have the headphones that came with my 3G iPod.
But for real listening, I use the Sennheiser CX500 in-ear monitor (IEM) headphones, with a JVC HA-FX66-W as a spare.
But for real listening, I use the Sennheiser CX500 in-ear monitor (IEM) headphones, with a JVC HA-FX66-W as a spare.
Moreso over 2. Since my family got 3 iPods, once the warrenty expired I used the reciept for a different iPod. Actually, I think the current one I have expires in January, so I might have to buy a new iPod by then..
I've used mine until they die, then I get some different cheap earbuds, like some Sony or Skullcandy earbuds. I usually wrap my earbuds around my iPod and throw it in my pocket, so they don't get babied.
Me too-I use MDR-EX082 (came with my Walkman MP3 player) ,MDR-E10LP,MDR-AS20J and MDR-ED12 headphones with my iPods
This is pretty much my story, also. Except I've only had 11 replacements.
I like them cause they are small and decent enough quality for my music.
Kinda funny in a way how people like the original poster can pretend to be audiophiles caring about quality of sound while listening to an inferior product like mp3's. I mean, yes the trade off of quality for convenience certainly makes mp3's and their players a very useful toy and convenience, but not something to champion if your REALLY care about quality of sound. Yes, better headphones undoubtedly will give you better quality of sound, but it's still going to be inferior to what people were listening to 10 years ago...interesting times.
No one ever claimed to be an audiophile.
Although i am thoroughly engulfed in music probably 90% of most of my days. Between theory classes, multiple bands and their practices, sitting in my home studio writing a new song, or just listening to my music traveling between these activities, i would say i know enough about music. My mom a concert pianist, 40 years strong on the piano, and my dad in a rock band. My sisters play piano and violin, my brother the piano all from them the age of 6 or so. I would say i have enough experience to say whatever i want about music.
So shove it. You can walk around with your record player.
Wakakanada,
The iPod (amongst other players) does uncompressed PCM and lossless besides MP3 (and MP4/AAC).
elmateo,
No need to diss proper recorders ;-)
Wakakanada does have a point about listening to lossy files, especially MP3 (MP4 is better for music, MP2 is better for voice, if it HAS to be in a lossy format).
There's no need to defend your use of DAP/MUSIC player (I won't call it an MP3-player, as that is just one of the formats).
The iPod (amongst other players) does uncompressed PCM and lossless besides MP3 (and MP4/AAC).
elmateo,
No need to diss proper recorders ;-)
Wakakanada does have a point about listening to lossy files, especially MP3 (MP4 is better for music, MP2 is better for voice, if it HAS to be in a lossy format).
There's no need to defend your use of DAP/MUSIC player (I won't call it an MP3-player, as that is just one of the formats).
You forget that 10 years ago people were listening on pretty skippy CD players (and those which didn't skip mangled the sound using on-the-fly compression to max out use of the small RAM cache) on earphones with no isolation - and many players would measure worse with PCM data in comparison to lossy data on a current DAP.