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# Ask The Readers: What Headphones Do You Use?
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/ask-the-readers-what-headphones-do-you-use/
- Published: 2010-10-01T13:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2010-10-01T13:30:00.000Z
- Description: As you may have heard, Jimmy Iovine has been advocating for better headphones for MP3 players and better sounding music files in general. Thus, he's looking to put some high-end. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2010/10/ask-the-readers-what-headphones-do-you-use.html]
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As you may have heard, **Jimmy Iovine** has been advocating for better headphones for MP3 players and better sounding music files in general. Thus, he's looking to put some high-end headphones on the market that capture the full-range of sound and deliver a richer audio experience to music fans. In a [line of dialog](http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/30/why-music-sounds-lousy-in-2010/?ref=hypebot.com) with the *NYT*, Iovine critiqued Apple, saying that, “Those headphones that come with the iPod are only there to see if the iPod works.” I have a feeling that most of us are aware of this to some extent.

Through, it still makes me wince when I see people unknowingly buying those bright pink and blue earbuds at the checkout for 10$—those aren't headphones.

They play sound through them, but that's about all.

Personally, I've settled on some Koss PortaPro's for now. Had a pair of Sennheiser PX 100's before that, but I stepped on them and they broke.

**What headphones do you use? Are low-end headphones — and MP3s — part of a wider problem that's damaging how fans experience music?**