Victor Company of Japan to take "in-ear" to next level
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Mark Brezinski
Published on July 22, 2008
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 You know, it's been a while since a good newspiece demonized in-ear headphones as sawed-off, soundwave shotguns, which perforated innocent victims' ear drums at point blank range. Thankfully, Victor Company of Japan will soon add fuel to that fire with their new headphones, the HP-FXC50s. No longer content with the driver being located outside your ear, VCoJ has placed the HP-FXC50s' sound driver in the nozzle / sound channel / part of the headphone you shove into your filthy ear canal.
Of course, in order to better ensure deafness, the HP-FXC50s' driver unit will be longer and thinner than the typical, more benign in-ear. By keeping the driver to be as close as possible to the user's ear drum, the user will be better isolated from external sound and will also leak less sound.
Here's some HP-FXC50 facts: they have a frequency range of 10 Hz to 24 kHz and will be capable of tearing through your membrane at 103 decibels (fearmongering journalists take note: 103 decibels is about as loud as a chainsaw). There's no retail price or US release date for this latest attempt to deafen America's children, but the expected price is about $40.
[Via Tech-On!] |
