[Chickensoup]

FreeRepublic is like having a really good techie friend who is funny.

[Ribeye]

I use headphones sometimes because my hearing is not so great at certain frequencies and I can’t hear dialog very well. And I don’t want the TV up so loud. I just use a $35 pair of full size Sony MDR-ZX300’s. I use the remote to control volume through my receiver. The sound is very good. Binaural, good bottom end and I can hear everything. I worked in Pro-Audio for 15 years, including a very high end ADC/DAC manufacturer. While there is technically a difference between a $300.00 set and a $35.00 set, for the causal listener the difference is negligible IMO.

[boomop1]

This is hugh....

[tomkat]

My current pair of Sennheiser RS110s are going on 8yrs of heavy use .. they're often worn to bed for dozing off to an audiobook, and end up on the floor by morning, but are still going strong.

Tho some are still available, I see that the RS110 model has been discontinued, while the RS120s are a bit more $-wise but have an integral rechargeable battery.

My RS110s run on 2 AAA batts, but with rechargeables there's always fresh power handy.
There's a volume control and a tuning wheel on one ear, and the on/off switch on the other ear.
I can get good reception up to about 50' away, and that's thru a couple concrete block walls.

If this were an actual review, they'd get 5 stars.