This was left as a comment on a
post about behind-the-head headphones by Chicago blogger lay-c.
Thanks for that post! Buying headphones has always been a crapshoot for me. Lately I've just tried to buy the most expensive pair that I can afford which tends to work fairly well but not always.
I wonder what hi-tech audiophiles think of my advice.
Does anyone has a different experience with the 20/20 rule? That's something that I just made up. Maybe it should be something else. But 20/20 sounds so spiffy, and I found those specific numbers to be a good guideline. Not 10/30. 10 is way too low for the bass... to find a 10 bass would be incredible.
i own these headphones from BestBuy. They were $15.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=5335657&type=product&productCategoryId=cat08352&id=1051826204520
I'm pretty happy with them. They are 20/20.
I'm not a sound expert by any means, nor am I a sound junkie. But i do like sound.
This "20/20 rule" would be great, only problem is that makers of cheap headphones always lie on their product boxes. Sure, there might be some bass at 20 hz, but there will be so little that you wouldn't be able to hear it. Most cheap headphones wont have any appreciable bass below 50 hz, not much of any treble above 15k.
