(1) Headphones are made for listening not nodding your head to someone who is talking to you.

(2) You don’t talk about actual sound quality anywhere in your post at all, which is the most important part of a pair of headphones IMO.

(3) Those headphones look cheap and made of plastic. Fuck Denon. Check out Grados. I only recommend them because I’ve tried them and I own the sr325i. But I’ve also tried rs-1, sr-80, and the super are hp2. i’ve also tried the ra-1 amp

(4) This is personal preference but the pic is of closed headphones, which I think suck. I prefer open headphones.

(4) You should be more worried about hearing damage than picking up bacteria or viruses. Invest in a very high quality pair of Grados and they will last prob the rest of your life.

(5) Most Grados are designed to be listened to in a 100% silent room, with the volume at the lowest level possible needed. Anytime you have to raise headphone volume to compensate for ANY outside noise they become very dangerous. I also don’t listen to headphones for more than 30 minutes str8 anymore.

Cheers and good luck finding a pair you like.

It’s one thing to be able to try something out before buying (although I’d still want a full refund if it wasn’t right after a reasonable time period at home had passed) but to be sold something in one of those awful sealed packages and then told you’d lose out by 10% if you brought it back – well they’re having a laugh.

And £69 ?? They’re ‘only’ £39.95 on their web site !!! Sounds like yet another reason to complain.
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