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need advice to buy heaphone for my ipod touch

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dtmaniac
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whats is the best headphone for ipod touch   i have 2 choice

 the B&W P5 OR

THE BOSE QUIETCOMFORT15

WHAT IS THE BEST  I LISTEN  MP3 320, WAVE AND APPLE LOSSESLES

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR HELP

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Re: need advice to buy heaphone for my ipod touch

In part, it depends what you are after. The Bose are active noise-cancelling. If that is important to you, go for them. On the other hand, the P5 are clearly the better looking headphones IMHO.

I've not heard the Bose - a friend has them and really rates them. I have the P5 and think they're superb. Also designed to be powered by an MP3 player and have inline iPod / iPhone control. They do also isolate sound in and out very well.

At that sort of money I would audition - you only need to take your iPod along.

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Re: need advice to buy heaphone for my ipod touch

Yep - i've seen both sets avaiable for demo in several Apple stores. Just take along your Touch and have a good listen. Both are great headphones that deserve a hearing.

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Re: need advice to buy heaphone for my ipod touch

One difference is that the Bose need batteries to work and if you run out at an inconvenient time, no more sound. The P5s provide good isolation (as opposed to NR) and do not rely on batteries.

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