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Difference between stereo headphones and computer/notebook headphones?

post #1 of 6
1/13/05 at 12:33am
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What is the difference (if any) between "stereo headphones" and "computer headphones"? I use "stereo headphones" for my notebook. I mean, is there any difference between the two? Can stereo headphones damage notebooks..? Do we really need computer headphones for our notebooks?

Hope to get some answers, thank you.
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post #2 of 6
1/13/05 at 12:53am
???

Headphones are headphones. Dynamic headphones (not electro-static- very expensive, different technology) all take the same signal. I've never heard of "computer headphones," must be some kind of marketing thing. It's probably a dynamic headphone. All the same.
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post #3 of 6
1/13/05 at 3:37am
computer headphones are just a marketing term. unless they're using it to describe some sort of headphones+microphone headset. but usually they call those computer headsets.
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post #4 of 6
1/13/05 at 4:19am
They might also mean a USB headphone, one with it's own DAC. In that case, still no problems. But probably requires batteries. And they're pretty uncommon.
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post #5 of 6
1/13/05 at 8:55am
My headphones say "Dynamic Stereo Headphones." Never heard of computer headphones before. Perhaps they are just worse versions of regular headphones, like "computer speakers."
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post #6 of 6
1/13/05 at 6:16pm
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Originally Posted by themessenger500
They might also mean a USB headphone, one with it's own DAC. In that case, still no problems. But probably requires batteries. And they're pretty uncommon.
There are few headsets/headphones that themselves are USB and have a DAC.

Almost all of them are regular headphones that ship with a USB to audio converter. For example the Plantronics DSP-500s are simply Plantronic Audio.90 headphones with a USB->audio adapter. And three times the price.

In fact, I'm not entirely convinced what the point of USB headphones are, short of computers that don't have soundcards. Soundcard or USB headphones, it gets turned into an analog signal eventually, and I'm not convinced the DAC for these USB headphones is any better than the DAC on soundcards. Not to mention giving up the soundcard means giving up hardware accelerated sound, if I'm not mistaken.
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