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New Headphones

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In search of new headphones and armed with the suggestions that I got in comments to my last post, I spent some time on the exercise page at Headphones.com. After reading that page, and doing a bit more research, I decided to learn more about what Koss and Sennheiser had to offer.

I spent a little time on the Koss site first. Or, to be more precise, I tried to spend time on the Koss site, but they decided that their main page should just launch a popup. Which my software blocked. I worked around that, and finally got their non-resizable popup with all-white scroll bars to come up, drawing from their painfully-slow web server. After a little browsing and reading, I moved over to the Sennheiser site.

What a relief. It's reasonably fast, and they display their headphones in product lines, so you can see (for example) that the PX line has the PX100, PX200, and PX250. If you go to the detail page, you get all the information you want.

So, I ended up buying the Sennheiser PX100 merely because they had a website that was better than their competitor. And I don't think I'm alone in making that sort of choice - online experience matters.

Anyway, I got the PX100's through the always-excellent NewEgg for $43.99 including shipping. They come with an interesting hard-shell case that I will likely never use because it takes at least a minute to get the headphones in it, and I'm a bit too lazy for that. The sound is really nice - the response is flat, and extends a bunch farther into the bass range than my earbuds did. They also pass my quality test for audio equipment, which is whether, after listening for a few minutes, I find myself wanting to turn up the volume.

Nice phones, and they certainly stayed in place better than the earbuds...

Comments

  • Anonymous
    February 15, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    February 15, 2005
    PX ?? Never heard of such, the HD series are the ones to look for. I have http://www.sennheiser.com/sennheiser/icm_eng.nsf/root/04486 - You can find this for measly 130 with some luck. This model is good because unlike the higher price models, it will sound well enough without separate headphone amplifier. However the drawback is that this is not really a carry-around-alot model, but hardly big drawback as most of the time I am at the computer :-)
  • Anonymous
    February 15, 2005
    Ah you were looking them for workout. Should have read the prev. post, well grats on your purchase, the review for them looked good indeed.
  • Anonymous
    February 15, 2005
    If your popup blocker wouldn't let you into their site, it's too restrictive. Both IE and Mozilla allow you to enter the site by clicking on the "Enter Site" link on the front page. The only site I've seen that IE blocks improperly is Microsoft's own CRM product. (It opens up a no nav, no toolbar window with no direction from the user.)

    The rest of your site comments were pretty accurate though.
  • Anonymous
    February 17, 2005
    Have you worked out with these? Guess what I am getting at is how well do they stay on if you are out on a 5 mile run??
  • Anonymous
    February 17, 2005
    Homer,

    I don't run, so it's hard to be sure, but they stayed on pretty well on the exercise machines and while I was lifting and doing floor work, so my guess is that they'd be fine.
  • Anonymous
    February 17, 2005
    I am thinking about buying PX100 or PX200 from the NewEgg too. :)
  • Anonymous
    February 21, 2005
    Just got thr px100 and they are unbelievable for the ipod,to think it took me this long to upgrade to a better set of headphones...honestly this set is unbelievable for the price.
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    March 01, 2005
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    June 08, 2009
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