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Easy back story. My son is looking for a comfortable, good sounding pair of headphones. He has glasses with pretty thick earpieces and complains that most "over the ear" phones are too 'clampy' feeling on his head.
He's home for the holidays and so we did a little headphone taste-test with the very motley assortment of phones here.
He liked my (purchased-new) Yamaha HP-2s. They are (still) comfortable and do (still) sound good -- but they're kind of fragile as they approach the age of forty (weren't we all?). Indeed, they've suffered the same degradation of the cloth-and-plastic-banded headband that most if not all 1970s Yamaha headphones have developed.
Two questions for you all.
1) any suggestions for relatively comfortable, relatively good-sounding, relatively inexpensive (say $200 USD or less) currently-available headphones that he might like? (he's not very fashion conscious; e.g., he shoots photographic film more than he does digital -- and he's an avid photographer)
2) does anyone know of a good rehab/repair/restoration for the old Yamaha headbands? :-)
Thanks for your consideration.
all the best,
mrh
Follow Ups:
1) less than a hunnert smackers
2) seem to be legit Sennheisers and not knock-offs
3) he says they are comfortable & sound good.
Mission accomplished? :-)
Thanks, all, for input & suggesions!
all the best,
mrh
Senn HD 598 on sale on Amazon for around $100.00 today. I wear glasses and have a set....very comfprtable
Seems like virtually a no-brainer for the price, and Amazon is said to have very good customer service if it turns out that he doesn't like 'em.
Thanks!
all the best,
mrh
I really like mine. I also wear glasses, but the frames aren't very thick. Often enough, I forget I am wearing them.
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"A fool and his money are soon parted." --- Thomas Tusser
Y'er welcome
I wear glasses as well, and have used many iterations of Sennheiser headphones and they felt fine. The ones I use now, the HD 650's I wear a few hours in the morning and at least three hours at a time each night and are quiet comfortable. Fully adjustable and fairly light. Sound is the best I have used under $600. Used market is fairly stable, prices hold up well.
you haven't actually FLOWN a Connie, have you? If you have, you're either impressively old and/or impressively lucky!
Probably both.
all the best,
mrh
Since you asked. Actually both. 71 years young (who am I fooling). I flew Ec121K's with Aewbarronpac from 1963-65. I was an electronics tech, aps-20 radar, ecm gear and nav equipment. We flew the Pacific barrier between Midway Island over Alaska and back, to track airborne targets from Russia. Usually 14 hour trips, we carried no flight engineers at that time and if the autopilot (crude anyways) went down, they would have crew that were not busy, sit in co-pilots seat and hang on to the control column, to spell the pilot. Co-pilot would be back in the ready bunk. Did not happen often but I had a few hours over the course of about 1800 hours flight time. Loved flying the Connie, the engines weren't the best, and it was not unusual to lose one in flight. If we were close to Alaska we would put in there, or Midway, which ever was closer. It got to be routine, so no one really got upset. Only once did we lose two close to Midway, that time I sweated a little. So yes, incredibly old
Edits: 11/26/15
Silly me!
That is very cool.
I do have a fairly nice book on the Constellations here.
Never got to fly in one nor (to date) even set foot in one; but there was a (fairly brief) time that they set the standard for luxury air travel.
Plus, there's that cool Sinatra album cover (just to be sort of, almost on-topic for AA); we have an origianl "promo" copy of same in the collection here, from my father's broadcast radio days.
(just a borrowed copy of the album cover art, though)
all the best,
mrh
There were several times I was on Connies flying home on leave. Amazing what the stewardess would let you get away with when they saw the aircrew wings, swapped out a few pair with the stews. Got "extra" libations access to cockpit on a couple of occasions, now they would shoot you when you get close to it. Understandable, world has certainly changed in fifty years
last about 5 weeks. We flew from Washington DC to Gander, to Ireland, to the Azores and finally arrived at Ben Guerir Morocco. All those stops were for fuel.
I have Sennheiser HD600's, which fit the head the same as the 650s (I used to own them). How comfortably they work with eyeglasses will depend on the size of your head and the temple pieces of your eyeglass frames. I do notice a small difference in the character of the sound when I remove the eyeglasses, because the "seal" of the headphone pads to my face is unbroken when glasses are off.
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