earphones : Computer Hardware Buyers’ Glossary

2008-05-12 by Roedy Green ©1997-2008 Canadian Mind Products
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For the same dollars, you can get much higher sound quality with headphones or earphones than with speakers. With earphones you can block out the noise surrounding you and the sound you are listening to will not bother others. Some have sound-cancelling logic to filter out background sound. Some earphones/headphones let you hear background sound. Some seal it out. You might use earphones on your computer sound output or on your mp3 player. The current state of the art is the Sononmax Soundcage. It can be programmed to let through only certain outside frequencies or volumes.

Most stores now won't let you try out headphones or earphones before you buy. There are several problems with this:

You can't judge sound quality.
You can't judge comfort.
You can't judge durability. What might look durable through the packaging make turn out to be silver painted cheap plastic.

One way around this is to buy only products you have tried out belonging to a friend.

recommend Amazon⇒Klipsch Image Earphones

Very expensive. Very light and comfortable. Noise Isolating. Do not have a built-in microphone. Weak on high frequencies for such as expensive model.

amazon.com

Check out microphones for combined headphone/microphones.

iPod
microphone
sound card

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