How to Ruin Your Headphones but Feel Good About It Afterward

Graham: Earbuds? Eww!

Actually, it might be my ear-pressure problem that makes earbuds such a horrible experience for me. Still, though, everything's so tinny and compressed on them ... and they're so uncomfortable!

Graham: Earbuds? Eww! Actually, it might be my ear-pressure problem that makes earbuds such a horrible experience for me. Still, though, everything's so tinny and compressed on them ... and they're so uncomfortable!

Ah, but the earbuds that Graham mentions (the EX-70LPs) sit someway into yr ear canal (which may not be any more good news on the comfort front), and come with three different-sized attachments (i.e. experiment and choose one pair) to provide the bass-enhancing world- excluding seal. Get 'em right and they need no bass boost from the playback device. Like a cheaper version of those fancy Etymotics things.

I use Grado SR-125s at home. Being supra-aural, they're not all that comfortable, but they do sound the business.

I've got Philips Horizontal ones. They look nice and are dead comfy but because they have a plastic part that goes behind your ear my hair always gets caught in them. Still.......