Whew, this post starts out sounding like spam.  Sorry bout that.  But damn, this is cool.

I wrote that I had an MP3 player – my first.  Okay, so I’m a decade behind all the cool kids, what can I say?  This isn’t about the player.  This is about headphones.

Headphones?  I can hear you say.  WTF?  Read on…

Yes!  They just arrived today and I’m pretty stinking excited.  And they are probably dorky, but what the hell.

I bought a pair of Sennheiser PMX-70’s.  Go ahead and click, it just goes to Amazon so you can visualize what I’m talking about.

Dorky?  Because they are bright green and wrap around the back of your head?  Perhaps.  But damn they fit nice.

My biggest gripe with normal headphones, the little plugs that just fit in your ear?  On me (probably not on YOU, because you are special), they fall out.  Or they feel like they will fall out any second.  And I spend a lot of time cramming them back in.  Now, this is probably due to user error, which is why I say it is for ME that they do that.  But still.  I don’t like cramming them back in my ear every five seconds.

With my new headphones – that doesn’t happen.  The little wire-thingy that goes around the back of your neck and probably has an official sounding name keeps the plugs in place.  I wear glasses and (so far) no interference.  The sound is good, to me (these are my first real headphones for my first MP3 player, if you are an audiophile, feel free to jump in here anytime).

Green?  Is because I will wear them walking and running.  Not to church or anyplace where green would just be gauche.  So that’s ok, too.

One note is the packaging – these folks know how to wrap a product in plastic.  I’ll try and take pictures.  They came in one of those clear plastic things (like so many other products nowadays) and I was ready to reach for the kitchen shears to open it.  But no, you don’t need to.  Pull out a nifty plug (which is where they would hang up on a store display) and it opens like a little shell.  Everything inside is perfectly placed so you can see what you are buying and it’s also protected.  I was just reading the box and it says “designed and engineered in Germany, made in China.”  So I’m probably enabling some slave labor in China by buying these, but I bet the German engineered slave labor does better than the Wal-mart engineered slave labor.

(okay, that was supposed to be a joke.  Come back, please!  And put down the brick.)

Also, reading the box, I find that the ‘wire-thingy that goes around the back of your neck and probably has an official sounding name’ is called a neckband.  And now you know, too.

So lets review:
I bought them.  They are well made, near as I can tell.  They sound good.  They fit me.  Oh, I forgot – water resistant.  They say to wash the sweat off of them after you exercise.  If you’ve ever seen me exercise, you know that is a good feature.  And packaged well.

Pictures to come, along with field reports of whether or not they stay on my head when I run / jump / leap tall buildings.

One last note: I purchased mine at Chief Value, because they had them in stock and $5 shipping.  They also usually have them at New Egg (which I suspect is the same company) and Amazon and, well, if you need help finding sources, lemme know.

Bohemian Rhapsody just came on.  Time for my air guitar solo, so I gotta split.  I know my headphones won’t slip…