Ever since my Bose earbuds died on me [note to readers: Bose doesn't make good earbuds], I've been half-heartedly looking for a new set of either earphones or on-ear headphones. While there's way too much information on the web, I scoured head-fi.org and decided I was either going to cop the Klipsche or Sennheiser earbuds. They tested the best, had the most bang for the buck and most importantly, were available at the Apple Store since I had credit there. If you've seen the Beats By Dre buds, they're obviously an upgrade, but we all know how overpriced Monster products are and you could get equal if not better quality for a fraction of the price. Being a financially shrewd person, these were definitely not an option. Besides, I only had $40 store credit, while the buds I wanted ran around $80 for a total OOP cost of around $40 for the math impaired.
So I perused to the Union Square location and I mess around with the various headphones on display. I checked out the Sennheisers, and yeah they sounded clean. The overpriced Beats By Dre Solos were right next to them, and almost had a certain glow to them, so I just peeped them too - I had to ensure my due diligence was complete. It should be noted when Norm visited last week, I tried on his BBD Studio editions, but those were too heavy and fragile for my sake. Plus they were $300! Anyway the Solos had recently came out at a much more modest $180 [it sounds a lot by itself, hence the comparison to the studio editions lol] and once I put them on, I felt like this dude here:
They sounded clean. I primarily listen to Hip-Hop, R&B and Glee V1 and V2 so these are optimal for those genres. However I told myself I wouldn't fall for the hype. Cons included sound leakage [but for real, I would be the ones wearing them, so that's almost moot. I remember when I got Sen-Dog, and a con was rear seating. I'm not gonna be sitting back there ya heard.] My OOP budget was like $50, and these would run an additional $150, so the Klipsches are looking more promising. I probably spent more time at peeping how I looked in them rather than the actual acoustics, but it only took me one song [Cudi/Ye/Common's 'Make Em Say' - the selections were limited] to know that I wanted them. If I were to cop the Sennheisers, I would've settled. And Reeg doesn't settle. And Reeg gets what he wants. And these were what I wanted, so I got them. It seems like I need to justify my purchases, but the bottom line is that I dig it. Once a hypebeast, always a hypebeast.
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