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Is why I buy cheapos, but the ones I have actually sound pretty good for what I paid for them ($12 because discontinued :D and I got em in purple! )
Some of the better earbuds I have used were the $12 ones at Target, I think Phillips was the brand, it was like the middle price ranged ones but they were cheap.and sounded pretty good.


Is why I don't trust myself with bluetooth earbuds, I notice when a wired one falls out. And I know there's over-the-ear clips, but those tend to annoy.
Yeah, I saw it go and tumble down off the rider mower and "chunk" it was gone. I found some of it but I can only assume the larger chunk was rifled off to the neighbor's yard or something.

The main consolation-ish, was at least I hadn't bought them for the $100 or so they cost, they had been my 10th anniversary work gift item.
 

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Some of the better earbuds I have used were the $12 ones at Target, I think Phillips was the brand, it was like the middle price ranged ones but they were cheap.and sounded pretty good.
Earbuds I use the $8 Panasonic ones. They fit my particular ears better because the post is offset. And sound good. I don't claim to be an audiophile, but I want some actual range to my music -- it's hard to get halfway decent bass out of buds.

I think Philips and Panasonic are underrated. Philips makes headphones all the way from $10 take-on-an-airplane folding ones to expensive studio grade stuff with less "OUR BRAND, LET ME SELL YOU IT" pricing.





Yeah, I saw it go and tumble down off the rider mower and "chunk" it was gone. I found some of it but I can only assume the larger chunk was rifled off to the neighbor's yard or something.

The main consolation-ish, was at least I hadn't bought them for the $100 or so they cost, they had been my 10th anniversary work gift item.
Decent but odd work gift XD
 
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I only pretend to be an audiophile, but if I really want to listen to something that "sounds closer to perfect" or whatever I have a nice set of noise cancelling headphones on my PC. I don't usually use speakers but I also have a pair of Studio style JBL speakers on my PC as well, that my old job was getting rid of so I was offered them. They are an older version of this.


Though I could probably use a better DAC/Amp set up for them.
 

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But will it pull in the ladies like a dab of 90W gear oil on the neck?
I'll try it next time at my amateur mechanics meetup.
 
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I only pretend to be an audiophile, but if I really want to listen to something that "sounds closer to perfect" or whatever I have a nice set of noise cancelling headphones on my PC. I don't usually use speakers but I also have a pair of Studio style JBL speakers on my PC as well, that my old job was getting rid of so I was offered them. They are an older version of this.


Though I could probably use a better DAC/Amp set up for them.
I'm not using speakers due to roomie situation, but the best PC speakers I've owned were a no-name 30w satellite + subwoofer thing I got at Tucson Computer back in 96 (I still have them and they still work fine). They sound awesome compared to a lot of "computer speakers' out there. Subwoofer makes all the difference.
 
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It's important to point out that this is happening because Microsoft asked on social media if this was something people would want to see happen and they got an overwhelmingly positive public response.
There's a poo emoji :poop:

The response was overwhelming, but positive? Hmm. (Also, nostalgia is a heck of a drug.)
 

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At least it's just an emoji and not something that's all HELLO IT LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE DOING A THING WOULD YOU LIKE HELP WITH THAT?
 
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It's important to point out that this is happening because Microsoft asked on social media if this was something people would want to see happen and they got an overwhelmingly positive public response.
Poe's Law is a cruel master.
 

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There's a poo emoji :poop:
Well, that's a Japanese thing though (as it's been explained to me)

The response was overwhelming, but positive? Hmm. (Also, nostalgia is a heck of a drug.)
It really actually was, lol. Not only are the reply comments positive overall, but the Office team set an fixed condition of 20k Likes to their tweet - a number already higher than the engagement Microsoft's various social media accounts usually tend to get by like a couple orders of magnitude - but they ended up getting over 170k Likes.
 
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