On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 00:37 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 13 January 2008, Tim wrote: > >On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 21:14 -0700, Craig White wrote: > >> using a professional headset to listen to compressed/lossy music is > >> sort of absurd to begin with isn't it? > > > >Yes and no. > > > >Merely what I have, some comfy headphones, and some robust headphones > >(those Beyers can have a thirty year life span, even with hamfisted > >users). > > That wasn't my experience, even with heavy duty maintenance, maybe 18 months > average for the Beyer intercom headsets ($395 ea at the time) at wdtv. > People get up to go rescue a miss-behaving tape and forget to peel it and the > cable clip off before they run around the console, ripping out the cords by > the roots, repeat as required till there is nothing left to fix. One TD > ripped the mouthpiece boom out by the roots trying to use it as a handle to > take it off as he got up cuz the cord was under the casters of his chair. > Took about 4 sq inches of plastic out of the back of the earmuff pad. It was > a week old, I blew up as only I can do. Not a pretty sight. He got the > message though when his dept manager made him buy another unless he wanted to > quit. ---- well, Dr. Dre has some headphones that likely emphasize the bottom end and may be perfect for those whose high end hearing is already gone... http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14630 Craig
