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I am quite annoyed at the recent advertising trend of cheap headphones. often the packaging contains something along the lines of: digital digital audio for use with digital music players for use with MP3 audio
like as if they are some sort of digital, plug and play, DRM thingy device.......... and like they will not function in a 10 year old analogue radio or something! I wonder what they think people think? what's next, digital power cords for computers?
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hehe... you haven't heard about some of the audiophile "superconductor shielded cables" that retail for $2500 a metre (!) and are nothing more than ordinary silver wrapped oxygen free copper in a fancy wrapper
then there's the $5000 mains cable (no kidding) and the £40,000 amp where every component is individually selected (or so they say) for the correct parameters. Well thats one way to justify maybe $1000 cost.. LOL!
I am clearly in the wrong business, should be making "Advanced Organic Polymeric Superconducting Phase Cancelling Cables (tm) (AOPSPPC)" RRP $3,899.95 and making a packet...
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Actually, the 'digital audio' might have some meaning in the context; meaning that they were designed to have a crap frequency response etc, so that it masks the all of the compression noise from your audio player. It is amazing how much worse a 64kbit vs 256kbit mp3 sounds with a decent pair of headphones over like the ones that come with an ipod.
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Steve McConner wrote ...
They're digital in that they're optimized for listeners with either 1, or better still 0 ears.
LOL. I was going to say that they're digital because sound is either coming out of them or it's not. Simple buzzers would work. "Digital" headphones would therefore be a great way to listen to digital signals like Morse code. Not sure about music, though. I suppose you could create music that consisted only of monotonic beeping. Few people would regard it as music, though; it would have to be classified as some variant of rap.
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'digital' headphones
I was going to say that they're digital because sound is either coming out of them or it's not. Simple buzzers would work. "Digital" headphones would therefore be a great way to listen to digital signals like Morse code. Not sure about music, though. I suppose you could create music that consisted only of monotonic beeping. Few people would regard it as music, though; it would have to be classified as some variant of rap.
