2-for-Tuesday: Boom Swap On/Over-Ear Headphones
- You get two pairs of headphones in two different color schemes, with swappable trim parts for different looks
- It ain’t no glamour boy, though: tough plastic band and water-resistant enough to wear in the shower - it’s fierce
- 40mm speaker drivers aren’t messing around, either
- Boom comes from the same people behind Polk Audio, so you know it’s got solid guts
- Model numbers: SWGR-A, SWWH-A, SWBK-A (SW for Swap, two letters for color, so far so good - we’ll assume that hyphen-A must have some function)
Customizable, but let's not go overboard.
Customizing your own headphones sounds like a fine idea. They’re your headphones. Why shouldn’t you be able to configure them however you please?
But imagine the nightmares that could result from unchecked freedom in headphone design. Color schemes like maroon and purple, or hunter orange Buffalo plaid, or Arizona Diamondbacks circa 1999. Bands made of styrofoam or macrame or smoked salmon. Speaker cups that go around your neck or inside your mouth.
It would be total headphone anarchy.
That’s why the Boom Swap headphones offer you a reasonable variety of customization options, so you can’t do any real damage. On-ear or over-ear cups. Alternate headband pads and ear caps, in a limited palette of mostly sympathetic shades: black/blue, white/black/green, and for the truly outré, mint/orange/black.
Even if you mix and match the parts from multiple pairs in different colors, your customized look will stay well within the bounds of societal consensus as to what headphones should be.
A narrow, tightly controlled range of choices that prevent changes of any real consequence: if it’s good enough for our political system, it’s good enough for our headphones.
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