Koss TD-80 Studio Quality Home Stereophone

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Summary: Great value for the money.
Review: These are a decent pair of headphones for the money. I like the bulky padding. I think they help you enjoy a richer sound than you would get from the earpiece type. So what if they make you look like Princes Leah on a leash? To enjoy music at home, it should be about comfort and sound, not looks.

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Summary: hate two volume controls
Review: these are nice headphones. they sound great. i was also pleased to note that they had volume controls on the ear pieces. this is great if you are not sitting too close to the computer with the volume controls. it is also good if your computer only has software volume controls, so you need a mouse or keyboard or something to change the volume.

however after using them only a short while, i became baffled by the need to have one volume control on each earpiece. i am not interested in changing the balance, and even if i were, it should be a seperate dial. because the left and right volume dials are seperate, it essentially makes the volumes controls useless. if you want balanced volume, unless you want to precisely fiddle with the dials, you have to have them all the way up, or else all the way down. it is the only way to know that you have balanced sound. it is OK to turn one down, and then the other, playing it by ear, but it is a nuisance i would rather not deal with. i am returning them because of this flaw.

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Summary: Outstanding headphones in this price range
Review: With the Koss TD80 headphones, you get your monies worth and more. They are well constructed, have very good sound, and are light weight to wear. The closed cup does an excellent job of keeping external noise out. Given the quality of these headphones and Koss's lifetime warranty, you can't go wrong.