juillet 19, 2004

music for my ears

it's happened again.

after a couple months of relative peace and general goodness, and after a weekend spent having quality time feeding the pod, which hadn't had any such glorious attention for WEEKS, i have murdered another set of headphones. after the last debacle, i had the good fortune to be allowed to shanghai a spare pair of dom's, which were very exciting--covering the entire ear, they allowed me the feeling of total immersion in the music on those long early spring commutes--complete with only the dimmest sense of my fellow commuters. (and to those who cluck their tongues at the commuter essentially isolating herself from her fellow straphangers (inexcusable, really, choosing not to interact with strangers from time to time), i have but one question: exactly how much do you want to interact with the woman who elbows your head mercilessly, or the smarmy man in the middle of the night who sits precisely next to you, despite the fact that the rest of the train is empty?)

but i digress.

let us return to the matter at hand: the fact that in less than half a year, i managed to pull the same trick on dom's headphones as i had on mine: total loss of sound out of the left earpiece. o tragic, o sad sad madness! and so now the decision and task is upon me: replace, or go without music for the foreseeable future. and that, my poppets, is entirely too horrible a fate to consider.

so back to the drawing board. i'm thinking going for those over-the-ear clippy types--your thoughts?

Posted by shivery at juillet 19, 2004 10:49 AM
Comments

here's my problem. with the cover-up-the-whole-ear headphones, after awhile it's kind of suffocating and flattening. but with the clip-on-your-ear-clippy ones, after awhile you're keenly sensitive of your ears being pulled oh so slightly away from your head.

how 'bout you just bring a boombox on the subway.

Posted by: kate at juillet 19, 2004 11:21 AM

i have the clip on the ear clippy ones and they're better than my normal sony in the ear ones since those have a tendancy to get loose, losing the total music emersion feeling. but you can't listen for hours cause they hurt your ears after a while.

Posted by: dahl at juillet 19, 2004 11:54 AM

What IS it with you? Do you exude a dangerous electromagnetic field? Hmmm, that sounds like a good band name...

Posted by: Jason at juillet 19, 2004 04:04 PM

ZAP!

behold the mighty power of my electrifying personality and megawatt smile! bwa ha ha !

what, you thought it was all for show?

Posted by: shivery at juillet 19, 2004 05:47 PM

you know my thoughts on giant headphones and isolating myself from commuters. haha. Really, that was the best part of my days usually. I loved not being able to hear anything except my music. Having my own private soundtrack to NYC was amazing, especially when the music hit my mood, or the city's just right.

Posted by: Josh at juillet 20, 2004 12:01 AM

I go through headphones so much my friends make fun of me. I like the sony over the ear thingees. They take up less room than the big ones and stay on better. But they can get caught on your pants and break. Then you need headphones again.

Posted by: Li at juillet 20, 2004 10:05 AM

i've used the one set of sony over the ear ones for 5 years now. no problems with the sound, the bass is good; the only damage i've experienced is that the sponges fall apart eventually. (the ones off airplane headphones are a sufficient substitute, heh.) also, when they're practically surgically attached to your head as mine are, your ears really ache after awhile. especially if i'm wearing specs/sunnies.
sorry is that way more than you wanted to know?

Posted by: estee at juillet 20, 2004 12:27 PM

estee, i totally have the same problem, on both counts!

Posted by: shivery at juillet 20, 2004 12:30 PM