01.07.05
Headphone, singular
Okay, I’m looking for the perfect ‘headphone’ and hoping that maybe if I suggest it enough you guys will make it.
Anyone with an iPod who wants to use it all day long has to have headphones. That’s a given. But I don’t want to block out the rest of the world; when I’m on my bike, or walking, or driving, or at work, I don’t want to have headphones in both of my ears. I just want one.
That’s the key for me. I want to get a single ‘headphone’ that will allow me to listen to my iPod, though i’d like to still listen to both the left and right channels, with having them cancel out.
Right now, I’ve taken a cellphone ear piece, attached a 3.5 mm to 2.5 mm adapter to it and have ended up find out that “Sgt. Pepper’s” has a very distinct use of the stereo channels, since the right channel ends up playing out of the little microphone.
I want a headphone that will have the following:
1) A single headphone that can play both stereo channels mixed together.
2) An inline cord management device, like those Zip-Linq cords or something that will keep the wires cleaned up when I take the the iPod out of my jacket when I get to work.
3) Some sort of small pass-thru jack so that I don’t have to plug and unplug cables into my iPod to get to play through speakers at work. Those headphone jacks always get loose and flaky, rendering the music portion of the iPod worthless. Or make it wireless. That would work too.