{"id":171,"date":"2004-05-01T15:15:28","date_gmt":"2004-05-01T20:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/?p=171"},"modified":"2004-05-01T15:15:28","modified_gmt":"2004-05-01T20:15:28","slug":"ipod-mini-headphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/2004\/05\/01\/ipod-mini-headphones\/","title":{"rendered":"iPod mini headphones"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve heard some complaints<\/a> about the standard iPod headphones, but really, I don’t think they’re that bad.
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\nMy theory is that my ears are just the right shape, or something. Here’s how Apple describes the iPod headphones:<\/p>\n

The earbud-style headphones rely on Neodymium transducers, a rare earth magnet that significantly enhances frequency response and overall sound quality […]<\/em><\/p>\n

I should point out that I own a Rio 600; anyone who complains about the iPod headphones as “dreadful” really doesn’t have perspective, as provided by the pair of earhook-equipped earbuds included with that unit. I also own a pretty nice set of headphones. My Sony MDR-V900<\/a> studio monitor headphones use the same material for their transducers, and of course they’re an over-the-ear design, rather than earbuds. Differences in price and design notwithstanding, the iPod headphones hold up reasonably well.<\/p>\n

Of course, some think that the V900 headphones aren’t really faithful to the original material. These folks often recommend Grado or Sennheiser, but honestly, I don’t care for either of them, in general. The only point I’d like to make here is that recording, mixing, and producing music is a highly subjective thing, as everyone perceives a “correct” sound at least a little bit differently. It follows that listening to music is just as subjective.<\/p>\n

One thing I’ve heard maligned several times is the bass response of the iPod headphones. This is where I wonder if the size or shape of the listener’s ears varies enough to make this particular design perform poorly in some cases. Or, perhaps it’s just a matter of inserting them correctly. Either way, I find it rather easy to get a decent listening experience from them. The low frequencies are audible and balanced.<\/p>\n

I realize that I’m not going into great detail. My aim is not to do a full review of the headphones. Rather, I simply wish to offer my subjective opinion that the current generation of iPod headphones is well more than adequate, and is likely to be so for most people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve heard some complaints about the standard iPod headphones, but really, I don’t think they’re that bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-itunesipod"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p706FA-2L","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}