Bang & Olufsen Form 2 Headphones
- Design: Over the Head
- Usage: Consumer
- Sound Mode: Stereo
- Connectivity: Cable
- Compatibility: Home Audio
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Laptop headphones, twenty years no improvement in sight.
Pros
Sound, looks, cord length. Great set for Laptops and ipods.
Cons
Unsubstantiated advertising claims about sound spillage.
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
Form-2 Headphones designed, on the market and winning awards, the most complementary product from before laptops and ipods were invented. They sound as great as anything today.
Summary: There is one way, and only one way to test headphones for sound. That is to try them in whatever system you are going to make them a part of, with a variety of source material that you are very familiar with. This defiantly means using your own ipod/laptop on your oldest most played tracks on your own ears. Test them thoroughly, headphones seem sturdy enough that you may have them a long time.
__The story I get is, that the B&O Form-2's were introduced in 1985. A pair went into some great governmental museum about 15 years ago, and no-one is contesting the title for Dynamic, semi-open type of head set. No word on what happened to Form 1. I wonder if the Mac was designed from the start for these Form-2 headphones. In any case, legend goes that when Bang & Olufsen was going to phase out Form-2, Apple told them they were ideal for the new ipods. Now, the Apple store carries them at the reduced price. You can test them there. Bring your laptops/ipods, tunes etc.
Strengths: The sound of these headphones is great, it cannot be denied. You can hear things true bookshelf studio monitors might miss. However, you have you use your own material and test against what you remember. Did I hear that before, was that in there, did somebody whisper? __The cord is the perfect length for laptops at 3 about nine feet. No-body runs around the park with a lap top complaining that the cord is to long on their headphones. It just will not happen.
I don't know about the shape of the head pads, seems they would be ideal for someone who maybe lost both ears using clamp-on earphones. The earpads would cover the holes in the side of the earless head and pipe in great sound.
Weaknesses: Bang & Olufsen made some advertising claim that there is not much sound spillage to people near you when wearing Form-2. Not much spillage compared to what. Headphones that have not been around since before digital? __Could not find any online results about this advertised spillage or current frequency response charts online for the Form-2 headsets.
Similar Products: No frequency response charts, but un-common sense tells us that a small speaker is not going to reproduce sub-sonic sound waves as well as larger transducers. The Form-2 does however do a fantastic job, for the convenience, and style with an uncharted range of 40-20,000 Hz. Nothing is forced into your ear but sound. Form-2's are a lot lighter to wear than headphones that enclose your outer ear in a cup, while producing comparable sound. These come with a laptop jacks. Form–2 earpads are also safer than the earphones that shackle and threaten to tear off your ear when you are not careful.
There seems to be some kind of different mentality at work with B&O. They must have gotten the bugs out long ago. The company seems to have gotten it right and keeps on producing them unchanged. It seems the products that come from Japan can't make it until the next full moon, before it is in need of improvements so vast that they have to change its name.
__The story I get is, that the B&O Form-2's were introduced in 1985. A pair went into some great governmental museum about 15 years ago, and no-one is contesting the title for Dynamic, semi-open type of head set. No word on what happened to Form 1. I wonder if the Mac was designed from the start for these Form-2 headphones. In any case, legend goes that when Bang & Olufsen was going to phase out Form-2, Apple told them they were ideal for the new ipods. Now, the Apple store carries them at the reduced price. You can test them there. Bring your laptops/ipods, tunes etc.
Strengths: The sound of these headphones is great, it cannot be denied. You can hear things true bookshelf studio monitors might miss. However, you have you use your own material and test against what you remember. Did I hear that before, was that in there, did somebody whisper? __The cord is the perfect length for laptops at 3 about nine feet. No-body runs around the park with a lap top complaining that the cord is to long on their headphones. It just will not happen.
I don't know about the shape of the head pads, seems they would be ideal for someone who maybe lost both ears using clamp-on earphones. The earpads would cover the holes in the side of the earless head and pipe in great sound.
Weaknesses: Bang & Olufsen made some advertising claim that there is not much sound spillage to people near you when wearing Form-2. Not much spillage compared to what. Headphones that have not been around since before digital? __Could not find any online results about this advertised spillage or current frequency response charts online for the Form-2 headsets.
Similar Products: No frequency response charts, but un-common sense tells us that a small speaker is not going to reproduce sub-sonic sound waves as well as larger transducers. The Form-2 does however do a fantastic job, for the convenience, and style with an uncharted range of 40-20,000 Hz. Nothing is forced into your ear but sound. Form-2's are a lot lighter to wear than headphones that enclose your outer ear in a cup, while producing comparable sound. These come with a laptop jacks. Form–2 earpads are also safer than the earphones that shackle and threaten to tear off your ear when you are not careful.
There seems to be some kind of different mentality at work with B&O. They must have gotten the bugs out long ago. The company seems to have gotten it right and keeps on producing them unchanged. It seems the products that come from Japan can't make it until the next full moon, before it is in need of improvements so vast that they have to change its name.
