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weelzSA

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I'm also looking for one for work to for around R1k. Any suggestions?
 
I would go for in ear as the whole day they could get rather heavy on the head, and look at noise canceling in ear headphones.
 
xodosman123 said:
I would go for in ear as the whole day they could get rather heavy on the head, and look at noise canceling in ear headphones.
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In not the biggest fan of in ear unfortunately.

I work from home so they won't be on my head "all day" - it will be a mix between playing through speakers and through headphones.

I really want great sound and I'm pretty positive headphones will give better sound than in-ear?
 
weelzSA said:
In not the biggest fan of in ear unfortunately.

I work from home so they won't be on my head "all day" - it will be a mix between playing through speakers and through headphones.

I really want great sound and I'm pretty positive headphones will give better sound than in-ear?
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I bought Skullcandy Hesh 2 from iStore recently. Excellent sound with great noise cancelling. Use them at work for phone calls, music, uTube etc. They have built in mic.
 
I read somewhere if you want quality always stick with cords as wireless downgrades the kbps to below 320kbps or something to that effect?
 
xodosman123 said:
I would go for in ear as the whole day they could get rather heavy on the head, and look at noise canceling in ear headphones.
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Depends really. I don't have that issue with my SteelSeries 9H, its light and snug.
Problem is though that if someone phones to your office phone then you might miss an important call.
 
Hemps said:
I read somewhere if you want quality always stick with cords as wireless downgrades the kbps to below 320kbps or something to that effect?
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128kbps is the quality that you can find on an original CD from an artist.
I don't think you can hear much of a difference the higher you go with the bit rate when using headphones.
You will only hear the difference in a studio?
 
CamiKaze said:
128kbps is the quality that you can find on an original CD from an artist.
I don't think you can hear much of a difference the higher you go with the bit rate when using headphones.
You will only hear the difference in a studio?
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CD's are usually 900kbps upwards, 128kbps is terrible quality.
256 upwards and 320 I agree it is difficult to hear the difference BUT on songs you know really well I take tell the difference on my Sennheisers.

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Hemps said:
CD's are usually 900kbps upwards, 128kbps is terrible quality.
256 upwards and 320 I agree it is difficult to hear the difference BUT on songs you know really well I take tell the difference on my Sennheisers.

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Maybe that's what the CD's are capable of, but if you look into the actual track details, they're always 128.
 

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weelzSA said:
Great thanks for the link.

How are they with music and sound quality? As mentioned will mainly be used for music incl hip hop, rock etc. looking for the best and cleanest sound.
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Best sound stage I've heard...
 
MightyQuin said:
I bought Skullcandy Hesh 2 from iStore recently. Excellent sound with great noise cancelling. Use them at work for phone calls, music, uTube etc. They have built in mic.
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OP, had the JBL E50BT's.

Bought them from a daily deal on takealot, lasted a few months and eventually sound only came out the one side.

Sent them back to takealot and got credit.

Bought the above (Skullcandy Hesh 2) and tbh for the extra 1500 its not worth it.

Only downside if you compare the two is my Hesh headphones are not wireless and have no mic. But Bass wise they are better.
 
I have taken CD's and converted them to Flac and alac but have never seen 128

Some ripping software will claim that 128kbps is "CD Quality" (maybe that is where you are getting this idea from?), but it most certainly is not. Think of it this way: if you put a CD into your computer and look at the individual song files, you'll find that a 4 minute song will be about 50 megabytes; the same song with a 128kbps bit rate would be about 5 megabytes. That means there is 10x more data on the CD file. A FLAC rip of the file on the CD would be pretty near the 50 megabytes on the CD, because it loses no data, is not compressed, hence "lossless." MP3 files DO lose data, they ARE compressed, they are "lossy."

Now, if you are listening to music through entry-level earphones or small computer speakers you probably won't be able to tell the difference either way...

MP3 files are very high quality for the size of the files and perfectly practical when you are on-the-go. If you want to get the best quality MP3s from your CDs, you should rip them at 320kbps - the file sizes will still be drastically smaller than lossless files, so you'll be able to fit much more music on your mp3 player.
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http://www.head-fi.org/t/628762/flac-vs-cd-quality-difference
 
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