Thursday, April 7, 2011

Know your types of Headphones

Headphones were once a thing meant to be used for home listening of the audio without disturbing the others. That has changed now. Though their use is still meant to listen to the audio without disturbing others, these are now the source of anywhere anytime entertainment. Name any manufacturer, be it Sennheiser or Bowers & Wilkins
every organizations is innovating in the making of the accessories fast enough to meet the accessory product requirements of the new audio-video systems.

Some of the common types of headphones that are available in the market are the following:

1.Ear Buds: These small Sennheiser headphones which are often offered free of cost with portable players, mobile phones and other devices. These sit on the outer ear and can even be having the clips to help them cling on to the ears. These are small but some of the high performance ones can deliver a performance comparable with the full headphones.

2.Sports or Fashion: These are also small but a lot trendier than the simple buds. These are the ones which are available in two styles: Verticle and horizontal. The vertical ones have strap which will come from over your head while the horizontal ones will be having the strap coming from behind the head or neck. These are lightweight. These are of good use during jogging or walking since these won’t come out of the ears all of a sudden.

3.Ear-pads: These Sennheiser headphones sit on your outer ear and have closed designs but these are not completely sealed as the full-size headphones. These are also called the semi-open headphones.

4.Full-size ones: These are also placed on the outer ear but these can seal your ears totally giving you an isolated listening experience. For this reason, these are even considered to be better than many others.

5.Wireless: This refers to the wireless ones, which do not make use of any connecting wire for listening to the music. These are the ones which make use of the radio waves or infra-red waves for transmitting the audio signal from base station to the headphone as the latter converts the signals back to sound again. These enable you to get freedom from wires, get free from being confined to one location or keep on doing activities even as you carry out the daily chores.

6.Noise canceling: The Sennheiser headphones give you the best quality music by forbidding the interference of the outside noise to the ears. These cancel the noise coming from the outside world giving you better listening quality.

Using these wireless headphones with the wireless Bowers And Wilkins Speakers can make your dream of wireless home theatre come true. Using the radio waves or the infra-red waves, these systems can be easily interconnected and configured to give you a wonderful audio-visual experience. Due attention shall be paid to acoustics and noise canceling attributes of headphones for a really good listening experience.

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  3. Nice Post! and i Agree with you because headphone is the Biggest Source of Entertainment now

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