Marco writes about headphones, I link to it
Marco mostly talkes about advantages/disadvantages of closed versus open headphones, which is an important distinction to consider when buying full-size headphones, and a distinction that Marco feels this New York Times piece on headphones doesn’t draw starkly enough.
Marco also points out that the article doesn’t actually recommend specific models, which is an excellent point. Marco provides his recommendations, and of course, Macworld has some great headphone recommendations.
The biggest criticism of the Times article I would like to add is that Mr. Grobart implies that in-ear headphones1 are somehow inferior to on-ear versions. There’s a case to be made that high-end in-ears are every bit as good (or potentially better) than high-end full-size headphones.
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Some people distinguish between “headphones” and “earphones”, but I don’t think the distinction is particularly useful since there’s lots of variation within these two categories. So I just stick to “headphones” to keep it simple. ↩
