Originally Posted by
sr20det
As for hearing damage, I don't think any of these setups would be particularly bad for you. no idea. I find I use a much lower vol. setting using in ear headphones, but thats simply because all ambient noise is blocked off.
Yeah, I find the same thing. Because all the ambient noise is blocked, you don't need as high a volume.
Originally Posted by
operator
I have a pair of grado sr60's that I really want to sell. They sound real nice but it's extremely uncomfortable, especially if I wear glasses. It's been broken in/headband molded for a year now.
That's how I feel about the Grados as well. I don't care how good they sound if I find them physically uncomfortable. Plus, as I said before the flat frequency response thing is what all the audiophiles jack-off to, but I don't think there's anything wrong with having coloration, as long as it's coloration that YOU LIKE. People always talking about that for speaker cabinets for bass (guitar) as well. However, try playing one of those totally flat response cabinets in a live setting and you realize how much of your presence comes from that speaker coloration when you get totally lost in the mix.
Not to mention the fact that you're likely using them to listen to mp3's anyway. You hardly need audiophile quality headphones to listen to a lossy file format. That'd be like putting carbon zipps and campy record on my urbanite!
(see what I did there? brought it ON TOPIC!)