Metal detector headphones straight or curly lead?

[Stig(The)]

Not a great day for detecting for some of us due to the miserable weather,so maybe a good time to ask:
                     Metal detector headphones straight or curly lead 
My old Headphones have just stopped working & was wondering,before i rush out & buy a new set,if you guys/girls have any opinions on the Question above. Thanks.
I will add that i`ve been told the "Curly" lead can be somewhat Cumbersome !

[Chef Geoff]

curly lead every time, purely because there is more of it. you could use straight but it would have to be thick and I think you would end up either pulling them off your head or tripping over the lead. Chef-Phone leads are 6m long, a straight one would be dragging behind you.
Are you going to Rooksbridge?

[mole]

Hello Stig detectors headphone leads!! the curlyleads in my experience are heavier than the straight one but they can stretch and retract  where as the straight leads are more prone to tangle up   some people use hi-fi headphones these are not suitable really thier not durable enough   theres another important factor that you,ve forgotten COMPATABILITY there are headphone out that won,nt work with just any model machine with some the tone is,nt right / with others no signal electricial mismatch whatever you buy make sure they are the best match for your machine at the price bracket your looking at   also if anybody uses curled lead headphone don,nt wrap the lead around the headphones at the end of detecting unless the cable is of the expensive memory type otherwise you,ll had inches to the lenght of it Stig you should phone around and ask about the differant headphones available for your X-TERRA 70 i f you go to garys metal detectors there is a section where you can hear the audio signal differances between differant pairs of headphones use this only as an example headphones are an important piece of kit without the right pair you could miss that find of a lifetime good luck

[cronge (richard)]

chef phones work very well for me on dfx, and leads are seperate and can be replaced should they strech,but dont know the price of leads should they need to be replaced

[Al.Thepastfinder, ( Alan )]

i used s straight one once,  it kept getting in the way, had to put it up around my neck, it was a nuisence,    curly one every time for me,
Alan

[Tafflaff (Rob)]

Curly curly curly.

My spare ones have a straight lead and WHAT a pain it is, everytime i put the tector down it rips the headphones off my head.

In fact my connection is dodgy on my Kos ur30's. I'd like them converted to an unplugable lead.. Chef , pm the details fella will you?

[cardiff bats (Paul)]

I was fortunate enough to borrow a pair of Chef-Phone Super Lights, 32ohm, 96dbl, detachable lead, volume control, mode switch at a recent rally and i must say that they are worth their weight in Gold. The biggest plus points for me were made only too clear after the sully rally a couple of weekends ago when i had my current pair of phones on. The wind noise was horrific and they were most uncomfortble, unlike the chef-phones which geoff had let me borrow. The are a fantasitic fit  with no outside noise pollution at all. Another plus point is the amount of curly cable that there is.There is plenty and you will not have to keep taking your phones on and off whilst digging due to the lack of cable. They are on my christmas list  Thanks once again Geoff  ....i did not realise how important a good set of head phones were untill i had to go back to my original ones.
Bats

[seeker]

i use big blue head phones (curly lead) made for detecting . a bit more expense but ive never looked back . have had them for 7 years now without a problem . when i think about all the cheap tangerly headphones i got through in the years before the big blues i should have invested a long time ago 
so for me id say curly and made for the hobby 

[Chef Geoff]

chef phones work very well for me on dfx, and leads are seperate and can be replaced should they strech,but dont know the price of leads should they need to be replaced

Replacement leads are £11.95

[cronge (richard)]

thanks chef, thats cheap enough