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RRSTDV8
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Apple love to charge for their stuff, but how about £549 for a pair of headphones? 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55230656
Knowing how popular Apple is hereabouts, is anyone going to be buying a set of these? Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
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"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
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 8th Dec 2020 8:38 pm |
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kajtzu
Member Since: 10 Aug 2017
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I’m personally not going to but they wouldn’t make a product unless the demand was there. 
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| 8th Dec 2020 8:41 pm |
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darrind
Member Since: 04 Jul 2008
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Well there's always a pair of these - https://www.audiovisualonline.co.uk/product/64214? if you think the Apple ones are expensive... Must stop buying shiny toys....
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| 8th Dec 2020 8:57 pm |
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Moo
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I've been looking at options to replace my Bose and I will have a look at them as a possible option. 
Not sure 54 year old blokes are the target market though.  D4 HSE EU6 (Known as Jeeves)
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| 8th Dec 2020 8:58 pm |
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Froogle-Yorkshireman
Member Since: 28 Oct 2010
Location: Yorkshire
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Blimey!!
I'm a big Apple fan, but no chance!
I will stick my neck out and say that they are having a giraffe 
The sony wh-1000xm4 are amazing and a much better purchase IMHO.
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| 8th Dec 2020 10:17 pm |
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DG
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I'll stick with my Sony wh-1000xm3's thanks 21 year LR veteran > D2 GS 2003 > D3 S 2006 > D3 HSE 2009 > D4 HSE 2013 > D4 HSE 2015 > D5 HSE 2018 > DS HSE R-Dynamic P300e 2021
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| 8th Dec 2020 10:41 pm |
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jjvd21
Member Since: 16 Jul 2007
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At $549 they better sound so good they make my ears bleed. What a crock! 16 D4 Landmark
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| 9th Dec 2020 4:28 am |
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astonbuilder
Member Since: 29 Sep 2006
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I don’t wear over-ear headphones so wouldn’t. I did spend £250 on AirPod Pro in-ear headphones after thinking long and and hard but don’t regret that. The way they link and ‘work’ with iPhone tech is added value to me.
As said, if there’s a demand companies will supply, even if it is the ‘kings new clothes’
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| 9th Dec 2020 9:37 am |
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Navigator
Member Since: 17 Mar 2010
Location: Stay at Home. One of the lives you save could be your own.
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A few years ago an audiologist showed me two charts. One was the purported sound profile of an expensive set of headphones, the other was a typical sound profile of a middle aged male. The point was that the patient was not going to be able to hear all of the fancy (costly) sound response. Whilst the typical profile of a female was slightly better overall, they would decline with age anyway.
We spoke of producing a chart of the same type that mapped out the characteristics of some kit into which one might plug the headphones, but realised what the answer was going to be anyway. A vaccine does not stop you catching a virus, or passing it on, or getting ill from it, really ill. It does reduce the likelyhood of you dying when really, really ill. Stay Alive - KEEP AWAY FROM PEOPLE.
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| 9th Dec 2020 9:51 am |
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RRSTDV8
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
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Having had a lifetime of ear issues, I know what my hearing profile looks like and it certainly isn't going to benefit from expensive headphones. I see they do active noise control which would probably help but it's not going to give the clarity they suggest. For me, anyway.
Now, if Apple etc., made a set of headphones that could be programmed, in the way that my hearing aid is, to boost some frequencies then that would actually be a useful bit of kit.
What's interesting is the rubbish spouted by some headphone suppliers. The even more ridiculously expensive item linked by darrind earlier in the thread, claim to have a frequency range of 5Hz to 40kHz. Why 40kHz? Are they designed to be worn by dogs and bats? Human hearing is commonly stated as about 20Hz - 20kHZ, although for many adults the top end is really 15-17kHz or even less.
I guess it's the current equivalent of the old directional, oxygen-free, hifi cables sold at several hundred pounds a pop. Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
2012 RRS SDV6
2008 RRS TDV8
"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
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| 9th Dec 2020 10:59 am |
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RogB
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I remember watching a program a few years back where they interviewed a bloke who was in early 20's. He had massively modified car (worth about £1000) that he had spend several thousand modifying including a sound system 'that would blow the clothes off Kelly Brook' (Italian Job 2003 )
they tested his hearing and found he was already deaf between certain mid-high frequencies, but his only response was that he would tweak his system so he could hear those frequencies. He point blank refused to/fail to understand that he had made himself deaf for good. 2011 D4 XS 305 MY12 - gone but not forgotten
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| 9th Dec 2020 11:25 am |
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RRSTDV8
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It's amazing how you get used to the loss, presumably because it's often a deterioration over time, and how you cope with it.
I remember how, before my hearing aid, I would turn my head so my good (relative term) ear would be towards the person speaking to me. Funnily enough, in noisy conditions, I still do it as I guess it became quite an ingrained response.
When I had my most recent operation a few years ago, my "good" ear was bundled up with dressings and it was at that point that I found out how bad my "bad" ear actually was. I was effectively deaf. The consultant tried to talk to me about the operation and I couldn't hear him. As a result, I was given a hearing aid by the NHS. Whilst the dressings were in place, crossing the road where I couldn't see both ways became a scary lottery. Unable to hear approaching vehicles was very unnerving. I was very happy on the day they removed the dressing from my ear so that I could hear again. Even happier when the hearing aid was given to me. It was the audible equivalent of being in a dimly lit room where you can make out some shapes but no idea what they are. Then the light goes on (hearing aid goes in) and suddenly you can see all the furniture clearly.
I still struggle in some noisy environments, a band playing in a pub for example, but it's way better than it had been for much of my 30s and 40s. Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
2012 RRS SDV6
2008 RRS TDV8
"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
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| 9th Dec 2020 11:48 am |
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Paul J.
Member Since: 09 Dec 2005
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RRSTDV8 wrote:I guess it's the current equivalent of the old directional, oxygen-free, hifi cables sold at several hundred pounds a pop.
It still amuses me to see discussions over the best quality HDMI leads to use, when as a carrier of digital signals they either work or they don't. An ex-Disco3 / FFRR owner ......
..... now on the JLR electric highway.
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| 9th Dec 2020 12:40 pm |
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RRSTDV8
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
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HWN wrote:RRSTDV8 wrote:Now, if Apple etc., made a set of headphones that could be programmed, in the way that my hearing aid is, to boost some frequencies then that would actually be a useful bit of kit.
And if they had a portable battery-powered device with a sensitive microphone, usable interface, lots of computing power and the ability to link to in-ear speakers over some sort of wireless link they might be able to help some people with partial hearing loss. Sounds like a winner to me!
Some hearing aids have Bluetooth so it can be done quite easily assuming a suitable app with a user-uploaded hearing profile. And thus it can work without having to change in-ear devices Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
2012 RRS SDV6
2008 RRS TDV8
"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
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