Any decent headphones on sale today for black friday? Looking at the $100ish dollar bose worth of quality, but on sale for the day. If anyone knows any sites/has any links, they'd be appreciated.
Any decent headphones on sale today for black friday? Looking at the $100ish dollar bose worth of quality, but on sale for the day. If anyone knows any sites/has any links, they'd be appreciated.
Necro-ish bump, but what type of headphones are you looking for? Is portability important?
Sennheiser HD238's are on sale for 79~ at Amazon, they are quite portable and have very satisfying sound quality. I'd take them over 150$~ Bose's at any day.
Good quality, durable (I ride my bike an average of 60-70 miles per week). As for portability, I have some cheap 10 dollar ear buds if I am worried about space.
I have Skull Candy Ink'd earbuds and they are amazing. They easily rival Bose headphones in terms of bass. The frequency ranges from 20 to 20,000 Hz, so you truly hear everything that audible by the human ear.
The earbuds I have now have a piece that goes behind the ears to hold them on, regular earbuds ALWAYS fall out of my ear w/o fail. Do the earbuds you speak up have the ear thingie?
No, but they form fit your ear once you put them in.
I wouldn't risk it, personally, but thanks for the suggestion. Like I said, I bike 60-70 miles in a week, lots of bumps and other goodies to get the earbuds dying to pop outta the ear.
Grados stay on your head pretty well. They aren't the most comfortable but you can't beat the quality of the sound.
I think you'll be somewhat hard pressed to get bike-riding durability out of a quality piece, but Sennheiser is probably going to be one of your better bets. I think they even make some that go behind the head in a sport style rather than over top, if that's your thing. They're also affordable so in the event you wreck them (one good tumble will wreck anything you buy, I'm fairly certain of this much) they can be replaced without much difficulty.
In other matters...Skullcandy is overpriced garbage. They attenuate the bass response at the expense of all else, resulting in a muddy funk. Accurate drivers can do just as good a job at producing bass response without wrecking your mids and highs. You show me a skullcandy that sounds good (if it even exists) and I'll show you another product that sounds identical or better for 2/3 the price, guaranteed.
I have Sennheiser PMX60s and they sound -great-. They're also comfy and easy to wear.
The online stores always seem to list them as way cheap.. maybe its a Canadian thing. I paid $80 for them a few years ago and they're $50 instore now, but showing as a mere $25 online.
The only problem is that I wear them pretty much everywhere, and occassionally the cord gets caught on things... and then I wreck them. T_T This time they're under warranty though.
Taken from a certain popular private torrent site's forums...
Also look at http://www.head-fi.org/I'm rather cheap but I want good headphones. ($0-25)
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JVC HA-FX 33/34 "Marshmallow"
JVC HA-FX 66 "Air Cushion"
JVC HA-FX 55
These ones are about $25
ear-clip
Koss KSC-75
This one can usually be found for between $5 and $20
earbud
JVC gumy Usually around $10
Yuin PK3 Usually around $50
I'm not that cheap, I just want something value ($50-100)
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Denon C351
Creative EP630
Sennheiser CX300
Westone 1 (about $100 for these ones)
j-jays
Etymotic ER6i
Shure SE115
Denon C551
Full-Size
iGrado
Grado SR60 One HELL of a good deal.
Grado SR80
Alessandro MS1
Denon D1000/D1001
Ranges from $50-100, ascending in price
Earbuds
Yuin PK2 Usually around $80
I have some money to spend on headphones and I want something great ($100-200)
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Westone 1
D-Jays
Etymotic ER4p
Shure SE210
Denon C700/750/751
Ultimate Ears Super.Fi 5 pro
All these are closer to $150, give or take a bit
Full Size
Audiotechnica AD700
Grado SR125
Grado SR225Beyerdynamic DT770
Shure SRH 840
I have more than $200 to spend.
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UE Triple Fi 10
Shure SE420
Shure SE530
Westone 2
Westone 3
Sennheiser IE8
Livewires
FreQ Shows
These range from about $250 to $350 (Triple.Fi, SE530, Westone 3, IE8 are generally considered four of the best universals you can purchase)
Full Size
Grado SR325is (Do note, these are very love/hate; Extremely agressive compared to regular grados. Try them before you buy them, for sure)
Alessandro MS2/MS2i
Audiotechnica AD900
Sennheiser HD600
Sennheiser HD650
AKG K701
Denon D2000
These are all between $200 and $300 .
I have so much money, if I don't spend as much as I can I will not be happy. I also like to make people jealous.
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Westone ES3X
UE 10pro
UE 11pro
These range from $600 (ES3X) to well over $1000 (UE11)
full size
Denon D5000
Denon D7000
Sennheiser HD800
Sony SA5000
Grado RS2
Grado RS1
Alessandro MS Pro
Grado PS1000
Grado GS1000
Audiotechnica W5000
Audiotechnica AD2000
Stax Omega II
These range from about $350 (AD2000) to about $2000 (Omega II, no amp) for the current production headphones. The discountinued headphones (marked [d]) on this range from about $1000 (AKG K1000) to about $15,000 (Orpheus), market price.