Poll: In ear headphones

[TehCookie]

I use the in ear headphones when I'm at school because they're a lot less noticeable and I can still enjoy my favorite tunes when the teacher is talk but I prefer the out of ear ones any other time.

 

[Pipotchi]

I use a pair of £200 massive sennheiser ones, they make me look like a fool when I walk about but I dont care.

You know why because I cant hear you one bit, all I can hear is Pink Floyd har har

I am not happy unless I have big, cushy, over-the-ear headphones.
I have delicate ears.

Aww I feel the sudden urge to protect you and your delicate ears from all thats bad in the world

 

[skcseth]

I have small ears so the in ear headphones never fit right. I like the over the head ones.

 

[DoctorWhat]

I use in ears. iPod style ones fall out of my ears, and I had to annoy the crap out of everyone on my bus to be able to kinda hear anything coming out of them, and the out of ear ones make me look like an idiot.

Furthermore, I use

Spoiler: these:

which make listening to things on vehicles (especially aeroplanes btw) a helluva lot easier, because it actively cancels out the noise of the engine, meaning that I can turn the volume waaaaay down, not annoy anyone else, and still have a great listening experience.

EDIT: I used to have some of those iPod style ones with the over-ear hooks, but I have absolutely no idea what happened to them...

 

[Soxafloppin]

I dont like things being inside my ears. i find it uncomfortable.

The ones that wrap around your ear are annoying

Normal FTW

 

[Drink Just Six]

The in ear headphone get very annoying they fall out alot and may cause damage for you're ears if they're sensitive since you have to shive them deep in you're ear to keep them from falling out. I usually use the hesh Headphones from skull candies

Yeah, I used to have a green pair of Hesh, but I fell down some stairs with them on and they broke. I sent in for the 50% off warranty coupon and got the SKPro's from skullcandy. Those headphones are DROP-DEAD AMAZING. Better than Bose IMO.
Here's a picture...

Mine's yellow and blue, though.

 

[Siegreich]

Same here the hesh are really nice, very comfortable, and quite affordable

 

[Woem]

Surely the standard iPod ones count as in ear headphones?

Absolutely, and those are my favorites as well.

 

[antipunt]

Out of ear, the ones that go in your ear get annoying over time (it feels like they burn).

^This. Although I really do need to get better ones, cause the out-of-ear ones get pretty bad sometimes too

 

[my dog said quack]

being a dj...out of ear is the only way you can hear the datails in the music. Excercising...I would use in ear because they dont fall off so easy

 

[gRiM_rEaPeRsco]

Big chunky 5.1 headphones

 

[Nadlice]

Because I have a bass fetish, skullcandy skullcrusher over ear are my headphone of choice. Also I hate the bass on any in ear headphone. Plus I like my hearing.

Toasty Bass.

http://www.skullcandy.com/shop/sk-pro-p-13.html

 

[Lukeydoodly]

I like my in-ear ones as they have great sound quality.

Thinking of getting some headphones though.

 

[Clirck]

In ear, don't come off every 5 seconds, have great sound, compact fit to pocket, don't have any problems with pain in the ears, it's your ears not the headphones. Defenetly in-ear.

 

[Mackinator]

The in-ear ones are pretty good. I like 'em best. Ooh yeah. They tickle my ears.

 

[Nutcase]

With a portable music player, in-ear buds. No question. Normal buds are conducive to damaging your hearing in noisy environments, while in-ears save it. With normal buds, not only do you get all the environment noise you used to get, but you also have to crank music up higher if you want to hear it properly over the noise. With in-ears, more environmental isolation, less need to crank up the volume. Plus, normal buds restrict your movement in the sense that the buds drop out. That can be highly distracting in traffic, for instance.

If I have to hear the environment for whatever reason, then I won't listen to anything else or have buds in ears, so that's a non-issue.

For FPS gaming at home I use external headset.

 

[Seventeen]

Rubber seal In-ear buds with preferably an over-ear design, 20Hz-20KHz frequency response, nothing with a driver smaller than 0.5, hopefully good exterior noise cancellation but not so much that I wouldn't be able to hear a car beside me whilst out and about. Its good to hear tunes easily without having to turn everything up but not so much cutoff where your aural awareness of the outside world becomes nill :S

Im currently using a high end sports set of sonys that give amazing bass response. I have used skullcandy buds but they're a bit fragile and two pairs have broke. They did sound good while they lasted though.



The skullcandy G.I and HESH models are Shhhhheeeeeiiiittteeeeee. Feel like they're made from fisherprice plastic and they really are just show headphones. They may look pretty but they sound like a bag of ass. Almost as bad as Wesc headphones You need to be paying at least £80-90 before you enter the decent sounding zone and up to £200 before you get to the professional, audio sounding level for headset headphones.

Because I have a bass fetish, skullcandy skullcrusher over ear are my headphone of choice. Also I hate the bass on any in ear headphone. Plus I like my hearing.

Toasty Bass.

http://www.skullcandy.com/shop/sk-pro-p-13.html

Decent In-ear bud phones form a seal in your ear so the speaker is suspended like the cone in a speakier cabinet. When it moves it not only sends audio signals to your ear but the bass frequencys actually resonate round your head and create an illusion of more bass being there than there really is. Plus if they noise cancel well then you don't have to have them dead loud and the bass levels stay the same.