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Yes, you read that correctly; Simon Cowell and Sony have, err, finally teamed up to jump onto the celebrity endorsement bandwagon. Called the MDR-X10, the X-Factor-themed pair of headphones come in red and silver, and will certainly get you noticed. Whether or not that’s a good thing is up for debate.
So what will approximately £190 of your hard earned cash get you? Well, the X10s are on-ear cans with those pads that completely enclose the speaker; come with a hard case, and a set of two flat-lined cables. Being heavily marketed to the youth, you’ll no doubt have guessed these have a clear focus on bass heavy listeners, who, you know, love the X-Factor. They’ll be released online from 10th September and in-store a little later. Here’s hoping they don’t get past the audition stage in the UK. [Sony, 2]
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If You Don't Have Your Headphones Plugged in While Running this Application, You're a Terrible Human
Kill it with fire!
Cowell or the headphones, I know what my vote would be.
Either and/or Both..
I will also give a +1 to anyone who got what TV show I was referencing there..
Hmm…Archer I believe?
Oh my God, you killed a hooker!
Call girl! She was a call girl..
No, Cyril, when they’re dead, they’re just hookers!
I have to go, but if I find one dog hair when I come back I’ll rub sand into your dead little eyes. I also need you to buy sand. I don’t know if they grade it, but…coarse.
Sir, that stolen lemur bit one of your prostitutes right in the face and she says she can’t go to hospital because she’s, quote, “tripping balls”
Classic!
So long as they are manufactured in the Far East, then luckily each pair will come with its own built in sob story.
“Building tech has always been my dream – now I get to live out that dream for minimal wage, plus the odd thrashing!”
So long as they give it 110%, they don’t get thrashed.
Finally a valid reason for jumping on someone’s head.
Beats were bad enough but this…may the fires of hell consume all who wear such branded headgear and strike down those who claim such things offer ‘quality’ audio.
I would rather have head phones with “markcgrant” down the side. Where are you mark you cheeky wee monkey?!
A bit below the belt (far too easy to insert simon cowell trouser joke here). But the cat’s out the bang, they should be out just before Christmas, just ask for ‘spunk-phones’.
I love both these and the Beats by Dre things. They give me a definitive way to figure out where the twats are when I’m out in public.
They are absolutely horrible. Just, awful.
I do like the logo though ¬_¬.
Do they have an autotune function? If not then they can’t be X Factor headphones.