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Can't tell if these are on-ear or over the ear- please advise. Thanks!

pawhite524, on 03 May 2012 - 02:21 PM, said:

They're on-ear—they don't completely surround the ears.

It might appeal to the 'cost-conscious crowd' but the vegans among us appreciate it for being non-leather.

Edit - nvm, I scanned too quickly

This post has been edited by susedan: 03 May 2012 - 08:11 PM

I was recently looking at various cables to upgrade our microphones and came across an incredibly thin cable which was almost unbreakable -- the outer sheath was very strong yet flexible enough to use on a pair of headphones. The building committee turned them down due to cost -- cheaper to replace the standard cables three or four times than use something which is expensive yet almost indestructible.

The point I want to make is that headphones this costly need to come with better cabling. My Sennheisers ended up with one broken cable so I only got sound from one earpiece. So I went out and bought some nice strong 2-yards long phono patch cable, and hard wired the cable to the headphones. The phones now sound even better and they have double-shielded cabling, thick but flexible. My kids now want me to do the modification on the home headphones.

This post has been edited by LeTap: 04 May 2012 - 01:27 AM

Yes!