Headphones! 2

Tue, 17 Jan 2017 00:11:44 GMT

Ari, one of my hosts, said the other night that my (Panasonic) phones must be really good, that he'd been yelling at me from the kitchen and I didn't hear them. I don't know if he could have been yelling that loudly, but they certainly obscured something. And they're working pretty well now, there are Fanw and two kids six feet in front of me, and a bunch of gamers 10 feet away, but mostly I hear Christopher Franke.

If nothing's playing then there's some attenuation but not much blockage, not as much as earplugs, maybe. But with sounds, I mostly hear the sound.

Maybe I'm playing it too loudly. But that seems unlikely, I've never been a high volume guy. One of those people cursed with sensitivity to faint sounds, physical flinching from loud ones, but impairment in understanding speech...

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Headphones!

Sat, 14 Jan 2017 00:36:00 GMT

Have I talked about this before? Feels like I might have, but don't see anything in the past few months. I use earbuds a lot, to play music at home, or of course out and about. I've gone through a lot too, as they kept failing in one ear or the other, especially after being carried in my pocket for a while.

I remembered Panasonic as being a solid brand for electronics, looked up online and saw that they do make earphones -- though none sold in local stores -- and ordered three, figuring even Panasonic couldn't prevent thin wires from breaking. $10 each, supposedly good performance, certainly fine by me.

Aaaand I may have outsmarted myself, I'm still on the first set. Granted I was protecting it more, putting it in a ziploc bag before pocketing it, largely to reduce tanglement but presumably also reducing friction. But I lost the bag at some point, and it's still working.

I actually have five sets. One I'd bought earlier, the three Panasonics, and one we found on the floor of Grendel's one night and no one claimed. I also had 3 $1 sets I got from Dollar Tree, but they smelled so strongly once I opened the packets that I got paranoid about touching ultra-cheap Chinese products, and I think I threw them out.

Technically all the ones I have are in-ear, so they stay in better and there's more noise isolation, especially from the Panasonics.

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Rich and Strange Aeons

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