Headphones. For walking around in.

Check out www.head-fi.org for quality headphone suggestions. But if you're not careful, your budget will triple and you will find yourself with a new addiction.

(For the record, I don't think that the current head-fi portable fave [the Sony D66 Eggos, available only in Japan, and selling for $85-100] sound significant better than the PortaPros.)

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I found those Koss one's for £40, which is a bit more than I wanted to spend, but I'll look into it.

Folks, I think my mind's starting to go.

I have a feeling I'm going to be using my walkman a hell of a lot more than I have been.

However the thing that blew me away was testing out a few pairs of noise-cancelling headphones. Damn they're good. I'm just going to wait for the price to go down, though...

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ok so my portapros are busted and will probably take 3-4 weeks to get back if experience is any indicator. but i am going away next week and would like some travel-friendly (ie sturdy, possibly foldable) cans. earbuds just do not work for me, my body rejects them like a bad transplant. they literally get spit out of my earholes. recommend me something??

Just buy another pair of Portapros. They're cheap, and nothing else on the market comes close.

ha

i was going to ask if anyone had any experience trying to use the koss warranty in the uk but i guess a response of "just buy another pair!" would indicate not

They're £16 on Amazon - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Koss-PortaPro-Quality-Sound-Stereophone/dp/B00001P4ZH/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1254235656&sr=8-1

It may cost less to send them abroad, but what's the point? The time saved is the issue I think.

kind of hard to find them in montreal, the one store i know that sells them sells 'em for like $80 - bastards

£20 (with postage) is kind of a lot to replace something that shouldn't have broken in the first place, you know?

well it would cost me $7 to get them fixed but i dont have the tiiiiime

just want a cheapish replacement

I can't remember if I've mentioned it on one of these threads before or not, but if you want a really cheap pair of buds that you don't have to worry too much about losing - the Skullcandy buds are the best for their price I've managed to find yet.

ya if my ears could handle buds i'd get something liek that.

I got Sennheiser PX100's 2 years back and I have never, never looked back since. When these die, I'm replacing them with the exact same model. Love these to death, the sound is SO good.

they wreck portapros imo

Portapros have a lifetime warranty though, don't they? Sennheiser is just two year. That said Sennheiser is to my ears a million times more comfy.

PX100s X100!

I'm on my second pair, first one got plenty of abuse.

I love my PortaPros. Tried the Sennheisers but I didn't like the fit nor sound as much.

Has anyone tried the Sennheiser HD201 or 202s? They look kind of robust, and I feel like having some with proper big bulgy pads, though it will make crossing the road rather more arduous

I'm in the US but I've used Koss's warranty many times to replace my KSC-35's (essentially Portapro's without the headband). $6 for shippinh & handling. I've tried lots of headphones but always come back to Koss.

yeah, mark - there's nothing cheaper than the Kosses that's worth picking up, really.

£20 (with postage) is kind of a lot to replace something that shouldn't have broken in the first place, you know?

but we should remember that in this scenario 20 is a made up number.
PORTAPROS FOREVER.

ps headphones just break all the time, they are only headphones.

Has anyone tried the Sennheiser HD201 or 202s

I have a pair of 201s in the office which get used to block out the background noise a couple of times a day; for the price you really cannot go wrong (about £10 when I bought 'em) - v comfortable, decent sound and super sturdy. If you'll be using them out and about bear in mind that they take a bit more to drive them than earbuds, so you might want to check that yr mp3 player or whatever goes loud enough (or get a cheap portable headphone amp).

Another aye for the Portapros here too, stupidly good vfm for the sound alone.

"bear in mind that they take a bit more to drive them than earbuds"

bah, that was my fear. i don't know, i will probably end up rebuying portapros again even though it is throwing money away /:

actually i have had to start actually turning my cd player down lately, particularly with buds. but i think it's just stuff with over-loud snares. not sure.

but, like:

8/10 volume x larger resistance > 6/10 volume x smaller resistance,

probably, right?

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