Are we talking about the Pro 35 headphones, successor to the Pro 25
headphones?  If so, they have foam pads that rest on the ears but do not
surround the ears.

At 09:05 AM 1/4/02 -0800, you wrote:
>MMM ... the phones to which I am referring are high-end phones with a
>quarter-inch plug and go around your ears.  They're superb.  I had a said
>of the type you describe also; I'm using it right now for my speech
>synthesizer, else my job co-workers would lynch me!
>
>Mike Freeman <[log in to unmask]>
>Amateur Radio: < K 7 U I J >
>
>On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Donald L. Roberts wrote:
>
> >         Hello,
> >
> > I am wondering if these phones are the same model which was on sale
> last New Year's?  I ask as I bought some sale phones last New Year's for
> $20.  These
> > are light weight stereo phones with the chord terminating in a one
> eighth inch stereo male plug with an in-line volume control.  If this
> year's sale phones are the
> > same as mine, I like them but wish that the highs could be accentuated
> and the mid-range sounds minimized.
> >
> > Don Roberts
> >