[Premium-Rx] Headphones

[ken chattenton]

HI Blair,
----- Original Message -----
From: "Blair Batty" <Blair at OntarioRocks.ca>
To: <premium-rx at ml.skirrow.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 8:58 PM
Subject: [Premium-Rx] Headphones


> 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
>
> You may care to take a look at these new head phones just released by
'Sennheiser',
the model No is, PXC250.
They are a strange arrangement in so much as the have two miniature
microphone elements that record the low frequency and thanks to the small
tube shape unit in which these elements are installed, "remove this low
frequency noise and then create an, 'anti-sound wave' that cancels out any
ambient
sound " ( Sennheisers words, not mine ).
They can be viewed in the latest release of the, 'Computer Active' magazine,
( issue No166 ) or you can go direct to the WEB site of  'Sennheiser' at,
www.sennheiser.co.uk .The price in the UK is £90.00
They really look the part and from the photo in the magazine seem as though
you could wear them all day and suffer no discomfort
Hope this helps..................cheers all, Ken, G4KIR.