Headphones

One of the most integral aspects of a college student's life is music. Specifically, ones own individual music and the ability to listen to it without interruption from everyone else around. If it means blasting your music at full volume, then so be it.

With that in mind, I wanted to check out what it would take for people to truly enjoy their music in peace, without any interference from the outside world. Believe it or not, there is a lot of technology associated with it, most of which is hard to understand unless you're in engineering.

Who would have ever thought Dolby Surround Sound Technology would be available in headphones, but they do exist. Somewhat pricey, however, Dolby Headphones create the effect of 5.1 surround sound with advanced signal processing. The headphones accomplish this by creating a virtual room with virtual sound that is extremely fine tuned to simulate the feeling of surround sound.

By using a special decoder (that you can see in the picture to the right) the signal coming in can be processed into Dolby Surround Sound Technology and then sent to the headphones. Nowadays, more units are becoming available with this technology built in so that any good pair of headphones can produce this rich surround sound experience.

So now you have some great sounding music or whatever you listen to...but the cord is in the way. Whether you go to the gym or you want to be discrete about your listening habits in class, for some reason or the other, you hate the cord. Then get rid of it! Okay, don't cut it off, get yourself a pair of discrete wireless headphones that you thought only existed in the movies. Introducing the Sennheiser MXW1 (who comes up with those model names?) wireless headphones. You simply pop these bad boys into your ears and you're set to listen to hours of music discretely, while you're in a boring class or listening to a lecture from your significant other....they will never know.

Best of all, they come with a rechargeable carry case and also an ipod shuffle-sized wireless transmitter that transmits audio signals at hi-fi stereo sound quality a.k.a its pretty damn good! So go on your way you champion of the lectures, with these, you can sit through almost anything and still enjoy your music.

The bad man notice: I do not work for or endorse any of the products or technologies shown in this post and all brand names are respective of their owners.