I’m holding in my hand a pair of blue and white headphones so flashy that to many it may look as though they have been birthed by Bappi Lahiri himself (How long has he been gestating anyway?). But first look flashiness aside, its mildly interesting how I ended up with these:
The Lo-ing Part
I rather liked Skullcandy because of good audio quality, and loud but good looks for OK prices. My first Skullcandies were Lowriders and I decided to give a certain pair of w/ Mic Heshes a pop that had caught my eye last month. I know a pair of, say Sennheiser’s would do slightly better justice soundwise but I just don’t see me buying those, especially the lower range models.
My Original Purchase
The order was placed on 30th April at Infibeam.com, with a promised delivered by date of 10th May. 11th May passed and I had heard zilch: my order had not even been dispatched yet. There was an understandably angry phone call to the website’s helpine as I was going out of town on the 16th for a week. It was on 15th May that they called up and told me that the cups I selected were not available and they were offering me a different product at the same price.
So I Firefoxed up the attached link and the sight greeting me was… hideous. The band at the top looked like it had an abdominal hernia, the white on blue pattern was patchily gay and even worse — they were christened after none other than Snoop Dogg. I have never heard a Snoop Dogg song and never plan to, as this hideous cover was enough:
[Blackboards screech better, at least they don't insult Metallica]
Also, the review was shit. But try as I might, I couldn’t move my eyes away from the cover feature. The headphones had in-built subwoofers and I am a sucker for bass. I somehow felt audio quality wasn’t going to be an issue. So after much indecision I placed the order.
I came back to Delhi yesterday and these were waiting for me.
What I Got
The Beholding Part
Much of the beholding has already been done but I will.. er.. feel them a little more and post a review soon. Till then, let the hate comments begin.
Sennheiser man here. Don’t give a rat’s ass about looks, but look forward to a review about the sound.
As I said, its the subwoofers that reeled me in. And they are good.
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