I have a few sets of headphones. I am also in a relentless search for a pair that will satisfy my more recent criteria… I know, it sounds bonkers, but I don’t yet have a pair of cans that will enable me to pause/play/shuffle music on my phone, but also allow me to take calls. The heavyweight search starts today…
I’d not really migrated to using my phone to listen to music. I have fully embraced many aspects of the completely brilliant Smart Phone, from Galaxy S thru HTC One M8, I’m in! But I have always had a niggle about using up the battery, and also the faff involved in moving music around devices (I’m not fully Apple….yet…just love dem ‘droid devices!), so stuck with an iPod. My consumption of music has changed in the last few months. I’m now a fairly heavy Spotify user, and as a delightful consequence, find myself plugged into headphones wherever I go on my tod.
It’s fantastic! Almost a fully soundtracked life (NB: This is my choice of superpower – to always be playing out loud the most appropriate music as I go about my daily life!), and the ability to share playlists with other folks. I can also listen to tracks I hear about/hear on the radio straight away, then buy the CD for ‘proper’ HiFi consumption at home. And I’m doing this on my phone…
From a sonic perspective however, the current format is less than ideal. Essentially, and in deference to their adequate form so far, my headphones sound like tin cans with a piece of wet string, and I find this irksome.
1st World Problem? Yes.
Still need to change headphones? Yes.
I’m not proud, but it’s going to bug the shit out of me, which means additional ‘Grump’ where additional ‘Grump’ can be avoided. But truth be told, I adore music and to lose any avoidable note or expression from the experience is sacrilegious.
So alongside a new car, headphones!
It was a stunning day today, and for once I actually spent some time appreciating the vibrancy and colour of Autumn. I bimbled around a park in Southampton for a while this afternoon, it looked like this;
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A walk in the park Kazanski…
Worth a moment if you get a chance tomorrow. Be outside, and stop… Take a moment to enjoy the atmosphere of The Fall, slightly chilly, bright but cold sunlight, that scent of Winter on the edge of the day… Yeah, heady stuff :)