I’m cloth eared so happy to make do with £30 in ear thingies. Like the last comment though.
Saw this and thought of (some of) you.
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I love my headphones but my preference is for speakers. Headphones are very useful though for those of us who have neighbours so out of consideration any listening I indulge in after 9:00 pm I do via headphones.
I use IEMs when I’m out and about mainly so I don’t get my tender sensibilities assaulted by the Muzak in my local supermarket. I forgot them on my once a week grocery foray last Monday and had to listen to Mumford & Sons whilst ambling in a socially distanced manner around Morrisons. It was bloody traumatic. It took me a couple of days of intense Sun Ra immersion before I felt cleansed in body & soul once more.
So yeah I love my headphones.
Really sorry to hear that @pencilsqueezer – I hope you are okay now.
We live in a cruel world.
It was horrible. I felt soiled. Don’t know what the world is coming to etc.
I spent much of last week clearing out junk. The number of broken headphones was upsetting, usually broken cables.
I also have two – count ’em, two broken vacuum cleaners in the shed. Why on earth did I keep the first one?
Son is very careful with gear. Daughter has broken one side of 3 pairs of decent headphones in 2 years. “They all do that. Everyone says so.” Hmm
My Beyers, bought in a Frankfurt department store about 25 years ago, have gigged with me and suffered all kinds of abuse. They haven’t been used by my kids, though, both of whom regard such items as mere consumables.
DT100s?
DT831
I suspect there are lots of ‘dead’ Numatic ‘Henry’ vacuums in the nation’s sheds.
How could you throw it out when its looking up and smiling?
There’s probably a German word for the ‘sense of loss when a faithful item of white goods stops working forever, and has to go the tip’.
Come on @Salwarpe! Help GCU out, please.
That word just has to exist! And angst must be part of it. It is probably the name of an album on ECM!
Here it is:
Gefühldesverlusteswenneintreuesweißesgutfürimmernichtmehrfunktioniertunddastrinkgeldgebenmuss
Ho-ho, your trinkgeld bit is a tip for the waitress and not the place old appliances go to. C- for effort.
Nobody likes a klugerarsch, Declan.
Klugscheisser, in fact. Both guilty, nicht die Rede wert.
😉
I’m inventing one:
Dienstquittiertenhaushaltsguternachtrauern
Bislangproblemlosesgeliebteszeughinterherjammern
Dienstgetanwegdamitungerechteweltschade
The real mistake is looking for a translation for “tip” when the word you want is “recycling”..
No.
Oh, go on then – Sperrmüllschmerz
That was about the length I had in my mind, Sal, rather than something schützengrabenvernichtungspanzerkraftwagen or longer.
Henry says thank you. . .
If anyone would like a lucky-dip from my big bag of selected – ahem – crevice tools, PM me.
If that don’t bring Moosey back, nothing will. . .
If you’re anything like my wife, you keep them “just in case,”
I have a pair of Bose phones bought in Bangkok. The exact same phones were available with JBL, Sennheiser, and other branding. So I took the Bose, because nice green colour. Thirty quid, BrooToot / caben. They’re absolutely swell. No trouble for five years..
So there’s an eel market for headphones too?
By the way, saw this on Twatter and thought of you.
Hmm. “19 people are Tweeting about this”
Seems a lot.
20 now. Niche.
Does that count as “viral”? Or earn a hamper?
Frankenstein? Wow