Do you use ear buds or headphones?

[Jason314]

I typically find ear buds to have inferior sound quality to certain headphones, and yet it's a lot easier to carry ear buds around while walking on the street.

 

[Keithy]

I don't do any street walking, so headphones are my thing. I have some regular headphones for normal use, and then a noise canceling headset with a mic for gaming.

 

[AmberCutie]

It depends what I am doing. If I'm using my phone for music, ear buds. If I am gaming, or using any of my computers for music, sometimes I use regular headphones. I like big cooshy ones that go around my ear, since I wear glasses I am picky.

 

[Sevrin]

I don't do any street walking

Right... *snicker*

 

[Mitchie Lynn]

I usually use ear buds for when I'm out and about and occasionally when I'm at my PC. I'm looking into getting headphones though. It it okay to ask for recommendations in this thread?

 

[Jebbaz]

I'm an editor so I use high quality $70 head phones for editing and pc use, but I use high quality ear buds for ipod and all mobile usage.

 

[morment]

I have a pair of cheap earbuds. I should probably invest in a better pair at some point, but it's not a high priority and the cheap ones work well enough.

 

[pyrite1965]

I usually use ear buds for when I'm out and about and occasionally when I'm at my PC. I'm looking into getting headphones though. It it okay to ask for recommendations in this thread?

For gaming or just listening to music?

I personally like Plantronics, they make overall good headsets (they are the only headsets to make it to the moon and back). Audio quality I can't really speak of as I'm half tone deaf, but they sound good to me. I also prefer over ear headphones (vs on ear) as they don't squish my ears and crush them into the arms of my glasses.

Oh and I also have a pair of decent earbuds for when I'm out listening to my Zune.

 

[LadyLuna]

To me- earbuds are for when I don't want anyone to notice that they're there. That includes on camera and on the street. Headphones are for when I don't care if people see them, I just want to hear what I'm listening to.

HOWEVER- at the moment, the only comfortable thing I have is a cheap pair of $5 earbuds that I bought to try out that form they came out with a few years back. The headphones I have, the band hurts my head after an hour or two.

 

[Eva_ChangeN]

I have extremely small openings to my ear, so earbuds are out of the question, cant even use a blue tooth as they NEVER stay in place to hear a damn thing. I actually prefer Sony headphones for cheap and I used to have some old Bose headphones my Dad had, but the dogs ate em a few years back LOL