Great headphones are great. No argument there. But it is possible that you also need a pair of janky earbuds like your life depends on it.
Something of a follow-up to the P5 headphones, the $US200 P3 headphones are Bowers and Wilkins’s first on-ear headphones designed for a mainstream, smartphone-toting crowd.
If you wear headphones often, you don’t just care about how they sound, you also care about how they look. These tortoise shell earbuds ($US60) from Nixon are seriously cool.
This chart seems about right. I mean, when I found it in my RSS, I was wearing my Denon AH-D5000 cans and they weren’t doing anything but making me look like Princess Leia. [Poor Drawn Lines via Makeuseof via Geeks Are Sexy]
So Beats By Dre headphones sound kind of terrible. Minus “kind of”. But they sure are pretty. Film maker and Renaissance man Casey Neistat took it upon himself to turn an actually decent set of cans into beautiful black and red doppelgangers. And he made a how to video.
Do you break every gadget you buy, no matter how beautiful or expensive or great, or how careful you pretend to be? Yeah, same here. But that doesn’t mean you’ve got to be relegated to a life of broken everything and empty bank accounts. Here’s some gear that’ll stand the test of your crippling irresponsibility.
Earbud style headphones let you enjoy your music without the distraction of what’s going on around you. But for safety’s sake, hearing distractions, like a honking horn, isn’t always a bad thing. So the earHeros use a compact design that doesn’t completely block your ears.