Let Your Favourite Music Go To Your Head With The Right Headphones

By Author: Sunil Punjabi
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Many of us enjoy music. It soothes us. It helps us distress and rejuvenate. It helps us as we are jogging or working out at the gym. But increasingly, we need the ability to carry our choice of music with us so we can listen to it while on the move. Thanks to huge improvements in the technology to capture, store and reproduce audio, this is now easily possible. Convergence between the computer, mobile phone and portable audio and video systems means that most of these devices also function as an audio player. It is thus not surprising that we see more and more people around us with headphones on them. They may be listening to music or a podcast from some web site or perhaps just their voicemail.

Amidst all this change, it is easy to forget an often unheralded piece of audio equipment. Spare a thought for how your headphones have evolved over the past decade. It would probably not be untrue to claim that a middle-of-the road model today is as good as a top-of-the-line set was a few years ago. Today, you get them in various sizes, shapes and output capacity. They vary based on how they plug into your auditory ...
... system. Some are "on ear", others are "around the ear", while yet others are "in ear". Each type offers a different level of physical comfort. Select a model that is right for you, based on considerations such as shape of your ear, likely frequency and purpose of usage. Price is undeniably an important factor in choosing what kind you plan to buy. But also pay attention to where and how you intend to use them. That way, you can get a set that has the features relevant to your context and you don't pay for features that you may hardly use.

headphones too come with bells and whistles. Apart from shape, colour, material of manufacture, there are special features that add to choice. You have those that reduce ambient "noise" and are useful if you are trying to listen to music at an airport or subway station or even inside an airplane. Noise reduction is also handy if you’re on an important call and there is lots of noise around you that can prevent you from hearing the conversation clearly. Then there are models are meant for use while listening to music (or the news!) when you are jogging. These are more rugged and hence better for outdoorsy use.

There are high-end professional headphones meant for DJs, sound recording specialists and singers. Many of us plug them into our laptops or "Tablet PCs" and use them while chatting, listening to music or podcasts or participating in a video call over the web. Prices are determined by features such as how effectively they "cancel" noise, whether they are wireless, stereophonic etc. Of course, the "brand" does play a major role in the price. But as most companies these days tend to design the electronics and outsource only the manufacturing, there's a good chance that a set carrying a less-known brand name may be just as good as one that has the label of a top brand.

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