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October 28, 2005
Boys and misshapen ears
According to Dr. Sax, boys don't hear as well as girls. That's perhaps why the default volume level on my MP3 player is too soft. But the original headphone wire inevitably broke next to the plug, so I bought a pair that clips onto the ears.
Two problems:
- Whoever's ears served as a model do not correspond to mine. Although the phones fit to some extent, I lose everything below about speaking frequencies, and I the max volume on the MP3 player is barely enough.
- The phones I bought tend to lose the capacity to play lower frequencies when filled with sweat, making the first problem worse still.
That said, the design of having headphones clip over the ears is the right one. Run with phones that wedge in the ear and you'll start to lose them if you sweat much. But which pair should I have bought?
Posted by Mark at October 28, 2005 07:50 AM
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