N9NEO wrote:
I've been using walmart or cheap radio shack phones that my kids give
me. I don't think more expensive phones would do me any good cause I
just listen to talk radio and never music.
I've been using the kind with foam puffys. Maybe I will spend 25bucks
for a pair of the Sennheiser HD201. They are full sized. Check out
the expensive ones at the bottom of the page.

http://www.headphone.com/products/headphones/full-size/

So do you have a favorite headphone? Bose? Koss? Sennheiser?

regards,
NEO

Sennheiser HD424
Beyer DT100
Sennheiser ?? Folding set desiged for use with an MP3 player,
they work well with the DX398 and my Rio Chiba I use during PT.

Sony Active Noise Canceling Sony(R) MDR-NC5 Noise-Canceling.
A friend loaned me a pair and it is an odd feeling to turn on the
earphones
and the background noise simply vanishes, or goes down by at least 20
to 30dB. I am still trying to decide if I like these. Time will tell I
guess.

It has been my expereince better earphones can help by not adding
unwanted coloration to the audio. Cheap ones "smear" the sound.

And yea, I know this sounds like I am pushing some sort of audio snake
oil. I still have a big problem with even thinking about "clean" audio
in a
SWL context. After all, the signal is pretty well mangled by the time
it
gets to our radios. For humour I like to browse some of the "high end"
audio
pages and laugh at the nonesense that people push. Burn in your CD,
amp,
speakers and Oxy free wire with a "white noise" source. They are almost
as funny as the TV series Jericho.

Terry