Hey, that's a great idea, I think I'll patent that along with 
those speakers you wrote about maybe last week! You been playing 
any gigs lately? 73, Jim

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Colin McDonald <[log in to unmask]
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Date sent: Fri, 17 May 2013 14:57:40 -0600
Subject: Re: Interesting headphones!

lol.  can double as elevated antenna anchor points too when not 
using the
aftershocks.

73
Colin, V A6BKX
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Gammon" <[log in to unmask]
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Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: Interesting headphones!


 Hi Colin, one suggestion might be to use a couple of good long
 lag boalts to fix each side of the headphone firmly to your 
face.
 You may want to sterilize the lag boalts before you install 
them,
 Smile! Jim WA6EKS


 ----- Original Message -----
 From: Colin McDonald <[log in to unmask]
 To: [log in to unmask]
 Date sent: Fri, 17 May 2013 14:39:49 -0600
 Subject: Re: Interesting headphones!

 there is nothing unpleasant about these after shocks at all.
 Like I said,
 they're very clear and crisp and great for speech audio like 
your
 phone, or
 whatever random talking device all of us seem to carry about 
with
 us these
 days.
 However, they do sound rather different than a dynamic driver in
 a set of
 headphones up against your ears.  First to be noticed is the
 lacking low end
 response that a moving speaker cone gives to the human ear.  If
 you press
 the aftershock pieces against the bones of your face, you can 
get
 all that
 and more bass back, and it's actually stronger than with head
 phones...however, pressing that hard will be uncomfortable after
 a couple
 minutes.
 They do have a tension adjustment, but it's not like it can be
 made to press
 hard into the side of your face or anything.  They more or less
 sit on the
 surface of your skin.  And yep, if you have a little bit extra
 flesh around
 your cheek bones they won't work as well as if your skinny as a
 post lol.
 The high end response is good up to probably 5K and then rolls
 off unless
 again, you press the things hard into your skin.
 When people say they have allot of bass, yes, they do, but most
 of that is
 vibrations on your skin or flesh of your face, not actual energy
 transfering
 into the bones.  If someone bangs a sledge hammer on the floor 
of
 your car
 in time with your music, then it can appear as though there is
 allot of bass
 happening, in fact, years ago, there were some car audio gismo's
 that did
 this very thing...but it's impact, rather than actual frequency
 energy being
 passed into the ear or the bones around your ears.
 When I was researchhing these, almost all the stuff I found 
about
 them on
 the internet was promotional marketting stuff.  There was no 
real
 world user
 reviews of them to give a person a true understanding of how 
they
 sound and
 where they work best
 I borrowed a set from a friend and tried them for a few days 
like
 I said.
 While I was impressed at what they did, and the novelty of it a
 little bit,
 I didn't really think they were the best thing since sliced
 bread.  I didn't
 really think they were as cutting edge a product as the
 marketting and
 promotional vidios and write ups say.
 I guess at the end of the day I liked them well enough for what
 they work
 best at, but there was a bit of a let down after reading and
 listening to
 others go on and on about how great and wonderful they were.
 The price isn't bad since a good quality set of headphones is
 over 100 bucks
 anyway.

 I couldn't justify buying these over say the headphones I get 
for
 4 bucks at
 a discount electronics retailer.
 However, they do free up your ears for listening, they aren't
 distracting to
 wear or to listen to while doing other things.  They don't look
 odd because
 lots of people wear various types of headsets now and it's
 completely
 socially and cosmetically acceptible.
 And they get the job done.

 Sorry if this comes across negative or like I'm bashing the
 product, neither
 is the case.  I'm just cautioning those who might be sucked in 
by
 the promo
 stuff into thinking these are an alternative to, or upgrade
 replacement for
 standard dynamic headphones.
 If I used things like trekker, or my phone's gps, or used a
 portible audio
 book reader while travelling allot I would probably have a set 
of
 these.
 Also, I would imagine they are very good on plains and in other
 high noise
 environments.  The audio is sort of a direct path into your ear
 bones, so
 noise doesn't get in the way or fill up the air between the
 speaker and your
 ear canal like with normal headphones on a plain or train or bus
 or
 whatever.

 73
 Colin, V A6BKX