Why do you use headphones at home?

A question concerning home listening only.
I'm interested to know why people use headphones at home:

1. You just prefer it, to get closer to the music, to get a better stereo sound and to listen without being disturbed by outside sounds.

2. To drown out an irritating sound while you are working or studying at home e.g. a howling dog, loud TV, children in a neighbour's flat, whereby the music itself is not the prime reason just the volume to drown out the dog.

3. Because of where/how you live, out of consideration for others either in your home or other rooms/flats around you, you have to use headphones to listen at a correct volume to hear the music properly.

4. Your hearing means you simply have to use phones.

5. You mostly listen to music via a device with small weak speakers, so the phones are a necessity.

6. Other

I live in an apartment with very poor soundproofing...so yeah headphones are basically it if I want to rock out...and not get constant complaints from my neighbours who don’t fancy Beefheart, Sun Ra, Tangerine Dream, Gong or Miles Davis when they have to sleep/eat/exist.
I’ve also found that it is rather cheap compared to a speaker set-up. The level of detail one can get from a somewhat cheap pair of cans is something you need to throw serious dough after in the speaker world.
Do I prefer headphones? Nope...but the times where I can freely listen to my stereo are increasingly rare. I remember last summer, where I seemed to be alone in the building with no neighbours to speak of...for about a week. Hot damn that was nice

For me both 1 and 3.....but my older Shure phones won't work in my new laptop...the plug fits but no sound....could be Win 10 or the phones are broken...can;t figure it out....

6. Other. I don't listen to music through headphones at home. However, I've recently started listening to music through headphones away from home. I'm actually quite surprised at how much more can be heard through headphones than through speakers. For example, as familiar as I am with Pawn Hearts through speakers, it was only recently that I first heard it through headphones, and I've become impressed with the album all over again.

My Sony WH-1000X MB wireless noise cancelling headphones give me far superior sound quality to any of my external device speakers, allow me to fully immerse in the music, and play it at a volume that would otherwise annoy my family! 😂

dr wu23 wrote: For me both 1 and 3.....but my older Shure phones won't work in my new laptop...the plug fits but no sound....could be Win 10 or the phones are broken...can;t figure it out.... help?

dr wu23 wrote: Sean Trane wrote: dr wu23 wrote: For me both 1 and 3.....but my older Shure phones won't work in my new laptop...the plug fits but no sound....could be Win 10 or the phones are broken...can;t figure it out.... help? Try your HP in a different tool (radio, telephone, cell phone) i tried both my samsung cell phone and my Sony MDR-CD270 and both worked fine with my Hewlett with Win 10 Thanks...I fixed it....just a fit issue with the jack.

I mostly use headphones for listening music, gaming and watching movies. Since the lockdown, I have purchased Logitech G430 specifically for group meetings and conference calls since work from home is applicable until now.

Edited by DamoXt7942 - October 18 2020 at 21:05

^ Oh man that's a deal breaker for me . Thankfully for me my wife is good with my music selection, sure there is stuff she has no interest in but the majority of it she's fine with. 

Mostly #3. My wife likes most of what I listen to, but when I am sampling music which is new to me, I tend to listen to a short snippet, skip ahead 20-30 sec, listen to another snippet, skip ahead some more, then skip the song, start a new one, listen to a snippet, etc. This, understandably, drives her nuts!