[Premium-Rx] Headphones

[Steve]

Hi,

I belong in general to the second school you identified. I like 
headphones with some mass that seal out the rest of the world. I often 
use something like a Datong FL-3 or occasionally a Timewave 599 to clear 
hets and some of the (soon to increased by Powell) QRM.

Koss started making Pro-4AAs again a few years ago. While maybe not as 
pure as Stax or Grado or some other AFtweak cans, they have a pleasant 
full spectrum response and are fairly rugged. Also cost about $65 USD.

Full spectrum cans can be very useful when listening way off the center 
of the pass-band; sometimes useful in order to increase intelligibility 
at the expense of comfort. And I still love listening to real low zero 
beats.

Besides, the physiological reality is that most ears fall off in freq 
response with age. Full spectrum for many adults probably ends at about 
10kc.

73,
Steve
KL7JT



Blair Batty wrote:

> If this is off-topic, please reply privately.
>
> I'd like to get a pair of headphones, comfortable and
> lightweight so I can enjoy my Harris 590 privately, and also
> not be bothered by ambient sound. I want real headphones,
> not the lightweight "ear-bud" or "walkman" phones. I'm very
> eclectic in my listening: ham, SW broadcast, commercial,
> air, etc. I'm comfortable with spending several hundred dollars,
> if necessary. I've been given two contradictory bits of advice:
>
> A) Buy communications headphones with limited frequency
> response, to filter out non-voice noise.
>
> B) Buy high-fidelity, full frequency response headphones so
> you hear everything. Sound-process out (tone controls) the noise.
>
> Suggestions or advice? Good brands and models?
>
> Sincerely
> Blair Batty, Canada
>
>
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