Ben Bradley wrote:

> In comp.dsp, Jerry Avins <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>>I think you're on the right track. First make it work, then make it
>>pretty. If I wanted to do that -- and one of these days I might -- I'd
>>start with a low-power stereo board and headphones that look like
>>gun-range ear protectors (and act like them when unpowered), with
>>microphones mounted right on them.
>
>
> I'd go with the new Shure in-ear phones, starting at $99. These
> claim even better isolation than traditional closed-back headphones,
> and are a lot smaller and lighter, and you don't look like the monkey
> in that Napster logo. For more info, click on the E2c link at
> shure.com.
...

For final use, I agree. (It's hard to mount the microphones on the
in-ear 'phones, though!) It seems to me that, during the course of
experimenting to get the best configuration, ease on getting them
on and off outweighs appearance and maybe even comfort.

Jerry
.... there is always a well known solution to every human problem
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