22 Jul
2004
22 Jul
'04
10:40 p.m.
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 02:59:33PM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
Excellent phones in the $50-$100 range. No, they
don't compare with the
$300+ superstars, but then you get what you pay for and, in the case of
SR60, a bit more than what you pay.
Yeah, I paid about US$60 for each of two pairs.
I don't recall whether they have as sturdy a cable
as the SR125 with
which i'm more familiar, but if they do, then that's another plus for
wearing them in difficult places (outdoors, or in an unruly studio):
that solid piece of copper rope
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I don't think it is the same cord. This one is just a pretty standard
plastic/rubber headphone cord. A rather sturdy one, but definitely not
a "rope"... :)
the rack (or rip your head apart from your shoulders)
if you trip on it
rather than giving up and breaking apart.
That, sadly, is not the case with high-end cans such as Sennheiser
HD580/600. On the flip side, the HD's thin cable does not abuse a slim
device such as an iPod (especially a mini iPod which is known to have
issues with the output connector), while the Grado will do that with a
vengeance.
Yes, when I trip over my headphone cord, I find myself instead of
worrying about the headphones, worrying far more about whatever they
happened to be plugged into at the time!
phones. But if i were to buy phones in that price
range, i'd rather eat
plain bread and drink plain water for a while and save money for the
SR80
Have you used both ? Do you have an anecdotal comparison? I don't
really know much of the differences between them, except for the "holes"
in the can covers... I'm not sure how that would feel compared to the
SR60's solid covers.
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Ryan Underwood, <nemesis(a)icequake.net>