Headphones..

Well, they are either all lying or you are wrong. I would go with the latter on past experience. (You wouldn't necessarily see custom made canal earplugs so superficially in photos anyway)

I asked around FB/twitter and the current DJs I know and those that replied so far all say they wear earplugs and that only a fool wouldn't if they are working in a club regularly. Their words not mine.

And your last point is something that we said already, yet goes against the very argument you created in the first place. :)
 
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Castiel said:
Well, they are either all lying or you are wrong. I would go with the latter on past experience. (You wouldn't necessarily see custom made canal earplugs so superficially in photos anyway)
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But again you are showing your ignorance over top quality headphones, they are already excellent noise cancellers. Using ear plugs when you have headphones that already cancel all nearly all outside noise would be like wearing a condom whilst practicing abstinence to prevent getting AIDs (i.e. pointless).

As for your final point this really does go against all medical advice. No doctor worth his PHD would say you should even put cotton buds actually in your ears, I've heard the expression "You should never put anything smaller than your elbow inside your ear" from at least two ear specialists, yet you are claiming they are wrong and people should be putting discrete canal plugs actually inside their heads? Really??
 
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But again you are showing your ignorance over top quality headphones, they are already excellent noise cancellers. Using ear plugs when you have headphones that already cancel all nearly all outside noise would be like wearing a condom whilst practicing abstinence to prevent getting AIDs (i.e. pointless).
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I'm not showing anything of the sort, I already stated that they have local volume control (as in their monitors and phones)....you are trying to cover yourself now, you made a daft comment, so admit it and move on.

Pete Tongs own words talking to deaf DJ for the NY Voice.

?...PETE TONG, showed up to spin, and I found myself in the role of nagging schoolmarm. Me: "I e-mailed you questions." Tong: "Yes, I'll do them tomorrow?" "Just make them funny." "OK, I'll do them at the end of the night, then." (See, I told you this is what e-mail is for.) Nice guy, he wrote back the next day. I wanted to know what it was like for him to have his good name used as slang that equates it with "wrong." Tong said he was never bothered by it ("I always saw it as publicity, and it made me a bit notorious") and admitted to using it himself sometimes ("when I'm sending myself up"). He has no plans to go deaf like the Wilde character: "Many of my contemporaries—JOHN DIGWEED, CARL COX—wear earplugs. I got some high-tech ones fitted recently but they haven't arrived yet. If I went deaf I'd be lost, I love music so much." Thanks, Pete. You get an A-plus.
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http://www.villagevoice.com/2005-04-12/nyc-life/def-jams/full/
 
In a similar vein, I often wonder what a good next step up from the legendary Koss KSC-75 would be. For a £13 pair of 'phones, they are (literally) amazing.

But in the back of my mind I can't help but wonder how much I'd need to spend to get something even more amazing... £100, £200?
 
Castiel said:
I'm not showing anything of the sort, I already stated that they have local volume control (as in their monitors and phones)....you are trying to cover yourself now, you made a daft comment, so admit it and move on.
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LOL, says the man who is promoting placing objects inside the ear canal against all medical advice to the contrary.

You are far more likely to damage your ear drums by sticking foreign objects inside your ears than by using good quality headphones.

Castiel said:
Pete Tongs own words talking to deaf DJ for the NY Voice.
http://www.villagevoice.com/2005-04-12/nyc-life/def-jams/full/
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Yeah and Whitney Huston swore she wasn't on crack to the press. I prefer actual video/pictorial evidence. None of which shows Tong commonly using ear plugs when he plays. In fact if you've ever seen him you'd know he is a very much in-ear DJ (he prefers to mix in his headphones) which brings us back to the point about them already being excellent ear defenders making any use of ear plugs pointless.
 
estebanrey said:
LOL, says the man who is promoting placing objects inside the ear canal against all medical advice to the contrary.

You are far more likely to damage your ear drums by sticking foreign objects inside your ears than by using good quality headphones.

Yeah and Whitney Huston swore she wasn't on crack to the press. I prefer actual video/pictorial evidence. None of which shows Tong commonly using ear plugs when he plays. In fact if you've ever seen him you'd know he is a very much in-ear DJ (he prefers to mix in his headphones) which bring us back to the point about them already being excellent ear defenders making any use of ear plugs pointless.
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Well, Pete Tong himself said differently, but then again you know better...

You made a daft statement and can't face up to it, that's the truth of the matter regardless of how you try to twist and turn and try to alter what you actually said..which was that loud music doesn't damage your ears...just to remind everyone:

estebanrey said:
Bulls Hit. I was a DJ from 1999-2004 regularly using Sony MDR-V700DJs which I could use as mini speakers that were that loud and clear. I'd even go up to professional speaker and subwoofers and place my head against them (usually when drunk) for a while.

I'm now 33 and not a single hearing problem. Listening to loud music doesn't damage your ears anymore than the myth that sitting too close to the TV damages your eyes.
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People can make up their own mind, I'm going to bed. :)
 
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They weren't born in the fire of consumerism, their quality is astounding and have been around long before headphones became a fashion accessory.
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hardly - they are over priced plastic crap with poor sound quality.
for the price there is much better.
 
estebanrey said:
Bulls Hit. I was a DJ from 1999-2004 regularly using Sony MDR-V700DJs which I could use as mini speakers that were that loud and clear. I'd even go up to professional speaker and subwoofers and place my head against them (usually when drunk) for a while.

I'm now 33 and not a single hearing problem. Listening to loud music doesn't damage your ears anymore than the myth that sitting too close to the TV damages your eyes.
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Haha this has cheered me up this morning, biggest load of **** I've read in a while. It's almost as if you worded your original post solely to spark up a debate on LOUD NOISES.
 
BOSE sie2i's? Good in ear headphones, iphone compatible, Not sure if there just outside your price range though. If not the ie2's are good too and a bit cheaper too. Iv always stuck with Bose, and sennheiser (Even though I have some shures at the minute haha).
 
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