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Old 30th March 2021, 08:09 PM
bob orbell bob orbell is offline
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Default Headphones or Cans?

Please reframe from calling HEAD PHONES cans its just stupid. Bob
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Old 30th March 2021, 08:48 PM
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OK Robert, on this forum and just for you I shall refrain from using that word and IŽll call them headphones but to me that conjures up visions of Spitfires and Lancasters that are only good for speech. To me, cans are bigger than that and related to music just as earphones are smaller.
Still, perhaps youŽre right. We should choose our vocabulary as a function of who we are talking to. After all we do simplify our language when we speak to people whose mother tongue is not English so why not complicate it when it is. After living so long away from home, maybe I consider English as a tool to communicate with the World and not as an heirloom.

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Old 31st March 2021, 08:53 AM
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Default Re: Air core coil for the wd25tex coil anyone.

There's an interesting thread on headphones/cans here,

https://www.blue-room.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=59094
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Old 31st March 2021, 09:03 AM
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I have to admit that I have done worse things, I sometimes mistakenly call ear defenders headphones..I would never dream of using my Focal headphones when using a kangoo.

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Old 31st March 2021, 12:48 PM
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Default Re: Air core coil for the wd25tex coil anyone.

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There's an interesting thread on headphones/cans here,

https://www.blue-room.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=59094
Ah, very BBC English then.
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Old 31st March 2021, 05:22 PM
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Default Re: Air core coil for the wd25tex coil anyone.

Ah yes, Headphones I think the term Cans came mostly from Recording Studio terms back in the day when engineers thought they were cool and know what there were doing and smoking things in the studio

Even the term cans is used today in my local community Radio studio where I was putting to gather a weekly one-hour Blues show before covid 19 stopped it dead in its tracks no pun intended I hope to be back in the studio this year. as it's great fun in there.
Anyway, as it happens I am now looking at replacing my aging Sennheiser HD650s CANS Sorry Headphone any thoughts on a replacement for them with today's models
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Old 31st March 2021, 06:21 PM
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Hi Colin, the Sennheiser headphones are very good you could try something like the hd800s which would be a good improvement and still remain with the Senniheiser sound, I had back in the 70's the light weight ones with the bright yellow foam pads.

I am using the Focal Elear at the moment, a really great sounding headphone, one friend who tried them remarked that they sound like speakers, not closed in at all.

I would like to try out the Stax and Audeze headphones sometime. Many headphones are not perfect and many users will use an equalisers to adjust the sound to suit.

On some of the headphone forums which there are many now, users will have a whole collection of headphones as they have found that certain headphones suit different styles of music and also they enjoy the different element of sound that each one brings.

Another requirement is to find one that fits to your head and feels comfortable to you as a badly fitting headphone can feel very tiring after a while. Like all audio kit it's not always a good idea to buy without an audition, but that is not always easy in this lock down.

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Old 31st March 2021, 08:27 PM
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Aha, Chris, STAX, , the very best, I love mine and could never return to cans :rolleyes Stax are referred to as, ear speakers, and please don't call me Robert, OK, I can here everyone calling me Robert now, if you do I shall just simply ignore you . Bob.
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Old 1st April 2021, 07:21 AM
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I have Beyerdynamic DT770 but only ever use them at the caravan with my DAP. Speakers are preferable, but then I have nicely sorted KLS3’s and spent years having to use headphones at work, which was more than enough.
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Old 1st April 2021, 07:43 AM
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Caravan ! . Bob
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