No... some are specially made for noise cancelling, not the normal ones. For example Shure e2c, Senn cx300 and sony ex71s are nice noise cancelling canals.

i want to ask,
how to differentiate whether an earphone is good or not by looking at the output or voltage or watt or something stated at the package without testing it?

No it doesnt tells anything. I only look at the frequency range... However, it also doesnt tells much.

huh...
anyway, thanks

noob question ::

How to burn in your headphone??

edited : question answered. just read from the 1st post..from your personal experiemce, any tips on burning in? what type of song good for burn in?

This post has been edited by skod: Nov 27 2006, 11:12 PM

There's one edifier speaker tool that would make the burn in fast. I think so... But my friend experienced the program makes the burn in with his edifier speaker spoiled, has some noise after that, thus I suggest you play music 24hrs/7days with slightly louder than your listening volume.

is that possible? pink noise will spoil speaker ?
i dun have problem with that and i'm also using edifier speaker with edifier burn-in tools..

I dunno, it's just my friend's experience and my suggestion.

i think that's due to manufacturer defect, more than the program spoil the speaker.
perhaps the amp design is not good / defect in that unit, and they on it for relatively long time for burn in, and viola, the chip really burned out then.

Referring to headphone specifications, what is this Nominal Impedance?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominal_impedance
Is it same with impedance? Related with whether the phone is hard or easy to drive.

So is it,

Low nominal impedance = easy to drive
High nominal impedance = hard to drive

or the other way round ?

This post has been edited by goliath: Jan 9 2007, 04:26 PM

That's what I understand too. I would like to add more; low impedance phone will do well in unamped but when you need to amp it, finding the suitable one will be quite choosy.

If I would to get a high impedance (hundreds ohms) haedphones, I need a better source of output (music player), am I right? I can't just get those and plug it straight to my iPod and listen, can I?

@goliath
u dont NEED a better source.... just get a decent amp for ur source should be enough.

Yes, high impedence phones tend to sound weak without amps

wanted to ask u guys abt philips SHP2700.. what u guys think?? do anyone here own 1??

yeah...anyone hav it??

Hi frenz.. newbiew here...
I'm using Behringer HPM1000.. for me the sound is not bad vs price (cost only hundred puls).. Anyone here ever used any Behringer headphone??? How is the sound quality...?? Any comment/s??

Behringer HPM1000 link: http://www.behringer.com/HPM1000/index.cfm?lang=ENG

THanks

This post has been edited by arifwan: Mar 6 2007, 01:39 PM

Noise cancelling and noise isolating are different things just so you know.

Noise cancelling headphones are headphones that produces a "antinoise" soundwave in response to outside noise. One famous pair of headphones that ultilises this noise cancelling technology is the Bose Quiet Comfort 2 (Bose QC2).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise-cancelling_headphone

Noise isolating are what we are familiar with, with the likes of Shure ES530 and Etymotic ER-4