Comment by larrik
13 hours ago
As someone who has never seen these or paid attention to them I was thinking "how heavy could they possibly be?" Then I saw 13.6 oz and I was blown away. That's actually really heavy for headphones!
13 hours ago
As someone who has never seen these or paid attention to them I was thinking "how heavy could they possibly be?" Then I saw 13.6 oz and I was blown away. That's actually really heavy for headphones!
Lots of people equate weight with quality. Good for selling them in store, bad for actual use.
I remember a teardown where weights were taped inside. I think it was a beats headphone.
It was Beats. At first it was found in counterfeit Beats, but later the same was found in genuine Beats. And then guess who bought Beats for their exquisite metal weight technology? That's right, it was Apple.
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Beats.
But my favourite hack was a Sennheiser model which had foam inserts to dampen the sound. 555 - foam = 595
The weight is sign of reliability
-Boris the bullet dodger
People wear them at work daily and it doesn’t seem to be a problem. One guy looks likes he’s Tier 3 support and uses them 8 hours a day 5 days a week for years.
People compliment my Jabra’s voice quality otherwise I would’ve switched already.
Sure, plenty of people also wear a 14 oz hard hat strapped to their head all day with no negative health impacts. Doesn't mean it's enjoyable or comfortable for everyone.
I used to wear them daily and I didn't like it. Noise cancellation was important for me, but they were really heavy.
That’s 385g vs Bose QC45’s 240g (8.5oz).
It's heavy but not unheard of; my headphones weigh 14.8 oz and some of the heaviest I know of are something like 1.3 lbs!
Still though, I think this is just a case of Apple making them heavier purely for a premium feel.
Can you name the models? I'd be curious to know.
I know my way around premium wireless headphones and I'd wager most of them within that price range are somewhere between 250 and 320 grams (like 8.8 oz to 11 oz).
Did those headphones have a band over the top?