Vistula Design Blog: Headphones: design of sound

16 January, 2013

Headphones: design of sound

As a musician headphones are to me like a toothbrush for average human.
I wear them everywhere (even when it's a formal meeting) and no matter of weather conditions.

I don't believe in earbuds, they have poor quality of sound (which is the first thing I'm looking at when I have to buy new pair). Second is obviously design. They have to be simple and elegant (sic! elegant headphones)

My first ones were Pioneer SE-CE10-XK. I loved them because they were better than the average ones that my school mates had and they were cheap (about 35 PLN).

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They also had a funky case. I guess they wanted it to look like it's a DJ's mixer. I have to say that it was also useful and really small.

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After I got my Pioneer SE-MJ21 everything changed. I said I would never go back to earbuds.

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This time design was important. The reason was - you can hide them with hair.
Sound was lovely, bass was great too (for a bass player it's most important thing)

I'm thinking about replacing them, they are quite old now, the second thing I want to get sth more stylish.
For example Marshall headphones, there're so beautiful. It's kind of a hybrid between vintage and modernity.
Also I have to admit that I like the idea of the box. (Lately I used old cardboard to make little boxes)
The box is really cute and cheap but the headphones costs 700 PLN which is something that average Polish student can't afford.