I don't have anybody on "Ignore".
The "MoreMe" headphone extension cables are longer (25 feet), less expensive (only $6), and heavier duty (thicker jacket), compared to the Radio Shack cables.
Gorbyrun,
It doesn't surprise me that some people will prefer MoreMe's to more expensive phones. since the MoreMe's will let you hear the midrange a little better than flatter phones. I've had people prefer the MoreMe's to the 7506's, the 240's, and other, far more expensive phones.
Same thing with stereo vs. mono - sometimes a singer will do better when they're not distracted by a stereo image. When you're concentrating on nailing a vocal, who gives a shit about hearing a tom solo whirling around inside your head? And mono is absolutely essential when you're tracking two backup singers sharing a set of headphones. Each singer gets a headphone cup and hears their voices in the air as well, important to some singers for maintaining pitch.
Finally, those phones that look like the MoreMe's, but with volume controls on each earpiece? Avoid them like the plague; they'll break faster than you can say "Hall of Fame Phones suck". When I was investigating headphones, I tried them and I've got 5 broken pair sitting here to prove it.
These Chinese factories that make headphones put out similar looking units for many distributors, but they're not all the same inside, even though they look identical outside. (Sound familiar?) I found these phones which were designed for institutional use, like listening to living books, etc. You sit at a listening station and plug them into a special cassette or CD player, hence the short cord. They're designed to be used 24 hours a day.
The units with volume controls use cheap pots which can't handle the power of tracking a loud live band, and they're designed for occasional use or for home stereo systems. They may look similar (or even identical to the MoreMe's), but they're not designed for heavy duty use.
The very short coiled cord is the giveaway. If it's got a longer cord, it's probably not designed for heavy use. If it has volume controls, they WILL fail for tracking loud music.
I went thru about 20 different brands of "Chinese" headphones to find these. A lot of the other brands looked identical to these - they weren't. Some are branded as Pyramid, Calrad, Nippon American (even though they're made in China), and about five other brands, and they look identical to the MoreMe's, but they're not.
The short coiled cord is the key, I think. Those are the institutional models and they're a lot heavier duty than all the rest of the Chinese phones. If you run across those for a cheap price, get em - you're probably safe.
But you won't find them in quantity anywhere, getting them fixed under warranty will be a bitch, and they won't be color coded.
Sorry for the rant. Yesterday, I cleaned out the local distributor again, and they still won't stock more than about 40 or so of the damn phones. And shipping charges would raise the phone prices outrageously.
Selling studio stuff sometimes sucks seriously.
. I never exspected that. How could you not notice your stereo mix had gone to mono? 
