Or so it seems……
Popped in to the Apple store at Touchwood early on Sunday, not expecting to find them. But I did 🙂
The thought of spending £54 on headphones does bother me, however compared to other comparable brands they are in a similar price region. Plus these phones have a remote, which is handy (only for 4th Gen Nano, 120gb Classic and my new iPod Touch), however sound wise they are fine on my old nano. Odd thing is, although it has a microphone it doesn’t work on the iPhone. Not that it bothers me at present.
They take a while to get used to, I guess for years I’ve been used to external noise. I’m sure these wont block all external noises, but at least the train journeys may be better and I might be able to listen fully to a podcast without hearing the day’s excuse for non/late running trains.
A test listen to an acoustic classic guitar album gets a thumbs up from me. Also listening to Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas looks to be possible now. Which is a bigger thumbs up for me. I might even boost my classic collection now 🙂
One possible downside is I can now hear how bad compilation CDs are. With regards to the classical especially.
Though if they turn out shit I’ll let you know…..
btw I am an Applewhore now