Introduction
Headphones are a pair of small loudspeakers designed to be held close to a users ears. Originated from ear piece, for many years these were the only devices existing to listen to audio before amplifiers were developed. A century ago when the first usable headphones were developed, it probably was never imagined that headphones would take over the music world as the only audio accessory categorized for personal audio, obvious isn’t it!Pre-Modern headphones made their way with Walkman era, when customers used to buy walkmans with a pair of large, awkward looking headphones or small ear piece in/on their ears. Reason of this premodernization was that listeners got a medium to carry their music with them, a portable medium. Back then it was magnetic tapes, cassettes etc and now in this modern era its digital medium – iPod, iPhones, Other Smartphones, portable players, tablets etc. The need for headphones is growing ever, with the content residing in more on-the-move devices and being more accessible, the headphone becomes an inevitable accessory to carry for personal entertainment.
Headphones being personal music accessory/devices, are also a style statement for the young generation. A decade ago it was seen that headphones in general audio devices, came in only Black and White universal acceptable colors – but now things have changed to the world of all new funky colors – One can now see all sorts of color variants in these headphones – Red, Blue, Green name it and surely it will be there.
This paper takes a deep dive into headphones as category. It provides classification of various types of headphones, use case of such headphones and also serves as a buying guide for customers.
