iPod bog standard plugs

I have spent my fair share of money on headphones.

In face it has occurred to me recently that headphones, in my case are like shoes and jackets. You can never have too many different kinds.

What also occurred to me recently that I have mistakenly been tricking myself into headphone complacency. Not only do I not give a shit anymore, I will put up with such utter crap performance that I deserve to have fallen off the face of the music scene and retire into a comfy chair with my slippers one, listening to my over priced ridiculously kitch B&O home stereo. After a spot of croquet.

The Apple standard headphones that come with any iPod and now iPhone are just ok.They aren’t shit, but they aren’t fucking fantastic either. And this is my land of complacency. I had been telling myself it was a decent enough sacrifice on sound quality and form over function. You can turn the music or phone on and off. Yippee.

Sennheiser CX 300

But they get ripped out by anything coming with in a bees dick of a whisper near your cord and in actual fact mine just fall out by themselves all the time.

And there is no such thing as bass response unless you are jamming the dam things so far into your canal with your thumbs that it really isnt safe or healthy.

Another $100 later, there come the Sennheiser CX-300, widely touted and written about as great little headphones.

But do you really want to shove these things into the pits of your canals?

Sony MDR 7506

If you do, can you actually really honestly tell me, that that feels Comfortable. Yes with a capital C. Comfortable?

I don’t bloody think so, these things really squish into your ear with their plush plastic whatever polymer surround, and the bass is vastly better than the iPod standards but comfortable? No.

And the cable becomes some sort of trasnporter for every vibration and jiggle of it, so that sounds like those made in the Star Wars movies are constantly interrupting my sweet tunes. No thanks. We want silent operating cables that glue to our head and plugs that dont fall out but don’t feel like too much ear wax.

Bose overear Headphones

So at some stage I thought it must be time to get serious. Serious fucking headphones. Those ones that you see in all the film clips in studios. Big mofo cans that cup over your whole dam ear and immerse in studio quality sound. For a lot of money. That’s right, when it comes to the big daddy of earphones in the music industry many a professional that the industry standard with the best lows and highest highs are the Sony MDY 7506 Studio Monitor headphones. So I bought some. They sound amazing. Period.

But do I really want to walk the streets of my inner western suburb with doof doof domes advertising that I truly am worth rolling for more than just my sneakers?

No, not really and that is how I feel when I am wearing them anywhere but in the comfort of my own home now and then, like a bulls-eye I wear them over each ear.

But just to be sure I am not convinced yet and so I have to go and spend another exorbitant absurb amount on a set of the best Bose headphones you can find. And they are somewhat smaller than the Sony versions and the sound quality is quite excellent, different and not as honest as the Sony, but deep and sweet and worthy of your favourite tracks to be sure, but do I need to wear these down the road either? I would roll me for a pair of these fuckers.

No & Olufsen. Just no.

So what do I want? I just want to whinge that I have spent an enormous amount of money on ridiculous headphones from all across the world and apart from the ridiculous Bang & Olufsen attachments that I haven’t tried, I am at a complete loss for a decent set of headphones to wear at most of the times.

Do the perfect headphones exist?

Can I have some please?