Giant, Garish Retro Headphones Work Great With Cellphones
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The retro-styled Chopper2 headphones from Aerial7 may look familiar. Anyone who has seen the wonderful (and hugely popular, if my local high street is anything to go by) Panasonic RP HTX7-K1 will instantly recognize the large earpieces, the adjustable steel-wire sliders, the leather-covered pads and headband and the single-exit cable. Even the recommended price is almost the same, at $70 to the Panasonic’s $60.
Apart from the dubious color schemes, the Chopper2 has one important addition: an in-line mic, for use with compatible cellphones (the iPhone and BlackBerry both work, for example). They don’t have the inline remote to control an iPod, as that requires Apple’s magic chip to work, but for yakking on the phone you’re good.
In fact, on paper at least, the Chopper2s compare well to the Panasonics. The driver is 4mm bigger, at 44mm, the sensitivity is 108dB (vs. 99dB) and the impedance is 32 ohms against 40 ohms. The frequency response is a little narrower in range, giving 5-20 KHz vs. 7-22KHz. Without actually listening, it looks like the main decider is going to be the microphone and the garish color schemes of the Chopper2s. That and the fact that the Panasonics have been around for so long now that they can be had for as little as $30 online.
Chopper2 Headphones [Aeriel7. Thanks, Greg!]
RP-HTX7-K1 headphones [Panasonic]
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