Polk audio Earphones?

torotot
torotot Posts: 16
edited September 2004 in Electronics
Portable media players are getting more and more popular these days. Is Polk Audio planning to come out with its own line of Earphones? Would be awesome to have earphones with the RTi sound quality.
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  • Mjr7531
    Mjr7531 Posts: 856
    edited September 2004
    Perhaps, but I doubt they would want to divert their R&D for headphones, headphones do take a lot to do right, and I know polk audio would, but the only problem is, the only people who would want to shell out the money for them would be people like us on the forum and DJs.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,761
    edited September 2004
    Portable media players aren't worthy of quality anything.
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  • Mjr7531
    Mjr7531 Posts: 856
    edited September 2004
    Originally posted by F1nut
    Portable media players aren't worthy of quality anything.

    Amen.
    while we're on quality, can anybody here hear the difference between Burned CDs and Factory CDs with a high quality rig?
    Once I got my AKGs I finally had another excuse for being against Music Piracy, "Quality Issues" ;)
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited September 2004
    Originally posted by F1nut
    Portable media players aren't worthy of quality anything.

    I take it you have one laying around the house?
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,793
    edited September 2004
    Originally posted by Mjr7531
    Amen.
    while we're on quality, can anybody here hear the difference between Burned CDs and Factory CDs with a high quality rig?
    Once I got my AKGs I finally had another excuse for being against Music Piracy, "Quality Issues" ;)

    I burn/copy factory CDs all the time. There are no differences between the factory release and their clone...

    However, MP3's, like from Kazaa, etc - Sound like dog crap unless you found some special user that cares about quality...

    So yes and no, depends on what you mean
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  • Danny Tse
    Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
    edited September 2004
    But they are still those of us who use quality headphones on portable CD players. This year's PCDP's have been quite good....the Sony and Aiwa models sounded great, with Panasonic offering digital headphone amps. I am using either Sennheiser PX100, PX200, or MX500 as my commute headphones, with a pair of Grado SR60 running off of a Sony SCD-CE595 SACD changer. So if Polk Audio does come up with headphones, I will be all ears....
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,793
    edited September 2004
    I do not see Polk making headphones....

    Unless they stick some 6.5" woofers in there, then maybe :D
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited September 2004
    I know I'm probably gonna get kicked all across the world for sayin' this, but I really like my headphones. They sound as good as anything I've ever heard (I've only ever shopped at BB & CC for headphones, so I haven't heard really nice stuff), and they are amazingly comfortable. They're light, squeeze your head just the right amount; they seem perfect. Here's the thing: they're the Bose Tri-Port headphones.

    Ok, stomp on me; but I still love 'em.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,761
    edited September 2004
    Originally posted by dorokusai
    I take it you have one laying around the house?

    Hell no, why should I? No fruit bats in this house. :D
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,060
    edited September 2004
    I have been wanteing Ear Phones for a while only to use at the gym to plug into the treadmill and watch/listen to TV
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  • bknauss
    bknauss Posts: 1,441
    edited September 2004
    Originally posted by torotot
    Portable media players are getting more and more popular these days. Is Polk Audio planning to come out with its own line of Earphones? Would be awesome to have earphones with the RTi sound quality.

    Nothing is slated... but if you get enough people saying they want a pair, you never know what might happen.
    Brian Knauss
    ex-Electrical Engineer for Polk
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  • fireshoes
    fireshoes Posts: 3,167
    edited September 2004
    Originally posted by Vr3MxStyler2k3
    I burn/copy factory CDs all the time. There are no differences between the factory release and their clone...

    I completely disagree. But it doesn't stop me from using burned cd's for my demo music at work. No way I'm going to lose originals or get them scratched up.
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited September 2004
    Originally posted by F1nut
    Hell no, why should I? No fruit bats in this house. :D

    None of that SDA needed when you have headphones. I like to have all bases covered.
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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