Urbanears Plattan Headphones

$60.00

Versatile, lightweight & collapsable, clean design headphones with handmade 40mm drivers, microphone & remote, zound plug & fabric cord.

Plattan is designed to be the perfect classic headphone, utilizing innovative functions and performance with current technology. It’s a full size headphone allowing for rich, secluded sound. The entire unit folds down to the size of a fist for maximum mobility, best of all, Plattan also comes with a “zound plug” which is actually not a plug, but rather a socket that allows your friend to plug into your earcap and listen to the same thing you are listening to.

The Plattan headphones sound excellent, and the details which make them even better are so simple in form that you would have expected them to be commonplace already, like an extra jack on the headphones that allows you to plug a friends headphones into your headphones to share your music. They call this the “Zound Plug”. It’s a brilliant idea, and amazingly simple. It dawned on me that not only is this jack useful for a friend, but if you ever end up breaking your cord on accident (hey, it happens to us all), it actually allows you to keep using your headphones by simply plugging a male-to-male mini jack into the socket, and you can keep on rocking.

They also fold up nicely, and have a very solid feel when clicking into place, which feels like a magnetic lock. The fabric cord which matches the fabric-encased headband is a very nice touch, and the cord has a built-in microphone and click-button for iPhone/BlackBerry/Droid usage.

These headphones were truly designed to meet the needs of today’s casual headphone user, and at a great price ($60), available in a plethora of colors, these guys are highly recommended.