Headphones

Headphones (in-ear) are as much about fashion as they are about sound replay. One of the reasons, besides the shipping, that we took up purchasing (and the price) in-ear (and on-ear) headphones for review over Hi Fi speakers, was the marketing.

We thought that the marketing of Hi Fi Headphones could be improved. One advertisement, by KEF, particularly stood out.



Who wants to be that guy? He's European. Particularly not well shaved. Look at that scruff on the neck. Perhaps that hair is supposed to lead the lady down to that man's chest. Like the hair on the stomach, to below.

Regardless, he's poorly dressed. A poor white shirt. A thin, inexpensive rain coat with cheap buttons.

A concert conductor, at best.

Either he's good looking, or the headphone's are. If you decide he is, then the headphones look wrong on him. Although they look small, there's nothing wrong looking with the KEF.

KEF make some wonderful sounding Hi Fi speakers, and some so nice headphones, as well. Really, they're cheaply constructed and made in the PSB kind of way. Both are oval, in a cycling velodrome kind of way. They both came out about the same time.

PSB's headphone is called "M4U" which we obliterate into "Money For You."

So PSB and your retailer (and KEF) want's to take your money from you.

But of course! "Je ne sais quois." Zut. D'accord. Zero Dollar.

We'll give them zero dollar, we mean.

But lately we discovered a headphone brand that doesn't quite respectfully require a lot of money. KZ.

If you want these sort of things, you want them to look good, in your ears. You don't want anything dangling out of them.

It's for this reason that we haven't gone with the Cardas EM-5813 Ear Monitor. Only $500.