Headphone random conversation

[mjs warlord]

This is the headset i use

Amazon.co.uk

They are openback which means even if i have them turned up high and somebody in the room talks to me i can still hear them. I had to turn windows speaker tab down to 67% because at 100% when i plugged in the headset they were booming out on number 2 and uncontrollable.

Its only when i go back to speakers that i realise they need replacing , they are creative 2.1 and around 20 years old.

The same thing happened when i got a new hifi set up , my old speakers were about 27 years old and without realising it my ears had become accustomed to the poor sound quality. When i got the new speakers i began to notice instruments on tracks that i had not heard before

 

[Colif]

I don't listen loud. Its a long time (over 10 years) since anyone complained about the volume of my music. Dad isn't around to complain anymore, and I rarely go above 5 on the volume knob, since I also use the software controls in windows.

Mum did ask recently if I could just use headphones while listening to music and not my speakers, and I said... I am... she not heard Open back headphones before. They are like speakers, only thing that is lacking when they not on your head is bass. But you can understand what song is playing if you take them off.

I know my speakers sound bad, they don't have tweeters. They lack a lot of high end, but they okay for bass and treble. I don't use them for listening to music, just for watching YouTube videos mostly and sound on them is compressed already. I have better options for music.

A PC without speakers just seems wrong to me. I remember when my last set died, I had to replace them as soon as possible as PC felt useless without them. Perhaps had I known to use a headset then I never would have bought them.

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