Big Urbanears Headphones Good for Sharing, Traveling
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At first glance, Urbanears Plattan headphones appear to me just another me-too copy of Panasonic’s super-successful RP-HTX7 retro-cans. They have the requisite big, padded ear-cups, thick headband and garish colors, and even come in at a similar $60.
Look closer, though, and you see some extras that put them way ahead. The stylish headphones have a microphone and inline remote that will control or at least let you talk to most phones, including the iPhone. They also have something I’ve never seen before: a headphone jack socket high up on one earpiece, so you can let a friend jack-in and share your tunes, or listen as you watch a movie together. They also fold flat (ish) so, unlike the Panasonics, they’re actually good to travel with.
The only thing we can’t tell without a test is how they sound, but the numbers are promising. The 40mm driver has a frequency response of 20Hz-20KHz and a sensitivity of 112dB. On sale now.
Plattan [Urbanears. Thanks, Valerie!]
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