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Panasonic RP-HT722 Monitor Headphones with Built-in Surround Control Panasonic RP-HT722 is a home theater headphones with built-in surround control.
Customer Review: Needs Power!
If you’re looking to use these on your PC or as a portable solution for your DAP (iPod, etc) then keep looking. Seriously, do not buy these - you will be disappointed. The bass will be nonexistent, weak midrange, distorted highs and $25 bucks wasted.

If you’re like me and looking for an adequate pair of headphones to use with your receiver at night or any other time you don’t feel like waking the neighbors, this set will serve you well.

The truth is these headphones need a decently powered source to get the most out of them, and most portables/PCs just don’t feed enough power to the headphone jack to supply these. Attached to a receiver or other amplifier is where these will shine, although if you have a dedicated headphone amp you’re probably not looking at cheap headphones to begin with. The sound is pretty balanced and they can get quite loud before getting some nasty distortion. Considering you can buy these for couch change, they are rather impressive.

I recommend putting the volume control on the headphones somewhere between 50-75% and cranking your receiver. With the headphone’s own volume at 100% I find them to distort at comparable loudness to lowering the phone’s volume and cranking the source power.

The surround feature isn’t much of a feature, as other reviews have noted. If you really want surround headphones you’re going to want to get a pair with multiple drivers (like the LTBs which sound great). This surround implementation sounds like an incredibly simple DSP effect similar to the surround mode on many PC stereo solutions of the mid-nineties. Personally, I don’t see myself getting much use out of it and I’m betting most people with these won’t either.

Also I think it’s worth noting the foam padding on these is covered by fabric. I initially thought it was the soft fake leather, which I would have preferred. They are very comfortable (very soft headband as well) but the drawback here is my beard. Unless treated carefully I can foresee my beard tearing up the fabric covering fairly quickly. YMMV!

The cord is fairly thick, and covered by that nice tough rubbery plastic which leads me to believe it will be fairly durable. It’s also quite long so it should be good for even medium size rooms. I haven’t measured it myself but the box says 5m (16.4ft) and at a quick glance I’m inclined to believe it.

So bottom line these are an amazing deal at <$30 for those times when you are unable to blast your speakers. My star score reflects my opinion of these based on the price range of about $0-$50.
Customer Review: Worth the money - good set for the casual listener
So I did what the wife wanted me to do and installed a Panasonic 50″ plasma and ceiling speakers to clean up the family room. She always hated the Hitachi DLP and Polk Audio floor speaker setup. Needless to say, she didn’t anticipate the bleed through from the ceiling speakers into our bedroom upstairs. Usually it’s not too bad, but I like to watch movies late at night when the kids are sleeping and Saving Private Ryan or Cloverfield doesn’t go over well at midnight.

So I got the green light to pick up a pair of headphones for Father’s Day. Off I went to the Sony store to check out the latest Dolby Digital 5.1 wireless h/p. Nice. Sounds great. $400. Better check out the internet and see what else is available.

If your like me and did a search for “headphone”+”surround” you came across the Panasonic RP-whatever that I’m reviewing currently. $30. Tell me more. Most people seem to like them. Tell me more. Most of the people that didn’t like the h/p thought that they should sound more like the $400 5.1.

So what’s the verdict? Bottom line - for $30 you can’t go wrong. They sound really darn good. Better than any earbuds. I only wish that active noise cancelling was also added to the package. As for the “Surround” sound, it’s more like Dolby 2.0. Opens up the mid-range a bit - but deep bass is still missing.

You ask what I did with the $370 that I saved? Put it into the kid’s college fund.

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