portable Headphone choice suggestions

[goraman]

well,having had a good search I found the Koss porta pro headphones on Play.com for £20.98...but thats not all....I got a second pair for £5.98!!

Heres what to do: Register with Play.com....when your registration is confirmed...find Koss Porta pro for £20.98,they are sold on Play.com by a company called MyMemory...click on buy which will take you to the MyMemory site..along the way you will be offered a £15 discount on next Play.com purchase from "shopper discounts and rewards"....sign up for that,(but be aware the first month is free,afterwards its £10 per month)
Buy the first pair at £20.98.....
When you get the confirmation email from "shopper discounts and rewards"
Then get back to Play.com....sign in and buy the second pair for £20.98(make sure to do it through play.com)...send a copy of your second purchase to shopper discounts and rewards,link,or cut and paste receipt and order number and send it to them.....you will then get the £15 back in a few weeks...at least thats the theory,I was happy to buy 2 sets anyway.
Be sure to cancel your shopper discounts and rewards membership before the month is out or you will be paying a monthly fee of £10...but there again you may want to keep it as they have some good deals there.
Having read all the wisdom about fake porta pro's,I was ready for when they arrived..just in case.
They were posted from Switzerland,both came together in seperate packs,they both came with a nice pouch to store them in and best of all,they are genuine and carry all the hallmarks of the real deal..they fold up so easily too for travel.As a test myself and the wife downloaded a program from bbc iplayer on the ipad and watched it using an adapter so both sets of phones could be used together.....great! no more boring flights,armed with an ipad full of free iplayer downloads,music,etc.lots of viewing.....sorry about the long post....but its a no brainer...2 sets of genuine Koss porta Pro for £27...
Downside?...no adapter to use in a standard headphone socket,but I dont listen to h/phones at home,but adapters are cheap so no prob there.

Koss portapros come with a 1/4 adapter, always have.

[seoirse2002]

Hi Jeff,
Maybe the latests ones dont?....Ive checked the Koss website and no mention of an adapter,nor is it mentioned on Play.com.....I have,of course, emailed both and hope to get a satisfactory reply

[seoirse2002]

Hi Jeff,
Follow up to the Koss Porta Pro headphones not having an adapter..
I have contacted Koss in the US through their online support chat and they have told me that the porta pro no longer come with a headphone adapter....They offered to send me 2 adapters free of charge if I was in the US or Canada though....when I said I was in the UK they directed me to their international customer services.
So all is OK... I had previously contacted play.com who told me exactly the same.
but just to be sure I contacted Koss as well.
luckily I have a couple of adapters lying around(if I can find them!)

All well that ends well....I was worried there for a while

[nat8808]

Don't be afraid of secondhand in-ear phones if they have removable squidgy bits.

Here's a pair of Shure SE530s that went for just £100, lightly used. Was a £450 rrp in-ear monitor when current. The current SE535 is about £350 odd new.

I got mine for about £150 or so 2 years ago and could easily still sell them on for that - i.e. no real cost, I'm just borrowing them unless they break.

Sound fantastic - detail and punchy bass that sometimes goes surprisingly deep. Probably a testament to their accuracy is that bass appears and disappears as it comes and goes with the music whereas many others have constant bass, like it's been boosted too much. And being proper in-ear types (I use the buds that are made of ear-protector material - where you squash it before putting in your ear and let it expand to fill the canal) they also help cut out outside noise.

Can be slightly hissy though as they're sensitive - need a very quiet headamp ideally.

I can recommend proper in-ear types if you can stand them (some hate having things in their ears). Before I tried them, I found myself wanting to squash the normal, rest-in-your-outer-ear types, closer just to get full bass or more treble detail.

[nat8808]

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In ears though, was looking to go over ear.

oh.....

[goraman]

Hi Jeff,
Follow up to the Koss Porta Pro headphones not having an adapter..
I have contacted Koss in the US through their online support chat and they have told me that the porta pro no longer come with a headphone adapter....They offered to send me 2 adapters free of charge if I was in the US or Canada though....when I said I was in the UK they directed me to their international customer services.
So all is OK... I had previously contacted play.com who told me exactly the same.
but just to be sure I contacted Koss as well.
luckily I have a couple of adapters lying around(if I can find them!)

All well that ends well....I was worried there for a while

Thats good news, I think some day the 1/4 inch jack will go the way of the 8 track tape deck for home audio but I hope not in my life time.