Yeah, I'll report back once I've got it and put it to the task. Look for that update in the "Complain" thread, most likely. I fee like I just handed $40 to a crackhead on the promise he's using it for "gas money." Only good thing so far is that with my expectations this low, they can only go up; if it kills ONE mosquito, I'm calling it a win.
Get some science in ya:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
I'm pretty impressed by what I'm finding online. Usually SkullCandy headphones have the bass cranked so high that it sounds like anything outside of the bass tones don't exist, while the bass response sounds like it's coming out of a busted subwoofer. But, no... the graphs and general responses of the Evos are actually remarkably solid. A bass boost is there of course, but not obnoxiously so, while the rest of the spectrum seems to have room to breathe. Not bad, much better than I expected. Enjoy them!
Word of warning that the 2.5mm jack going into the headphones has rather fragile wires in it. They break easily with extended use. I speak from experience.
It is, and I'll definitely keep it in mind. It came with 2 cables, one with a mic and button array and one without, so if one craps out then I can swap. I think I might swap to the other though depending on what Sennheiser support says about me mentioning it along with another question I had, cause it gets kinda crackly when I plug it into a device until I rotate the plug a bit. Willing to bet the one I have in there now is what the previous owner used primarily
As expected, this thing is a massive piece of Chinese (<-- not racist) shit. In a huge "fuck you" from the universe, the first night I put it out, I killed no fewer than 5 mosquitoes on my and my girlfriend's ankles with this device literally inches away. The zapper has precisely zero confirmed kills.
As expected, "as seen on TV" means hot garbage. Not too late to get a refund I hope?
I spent the money knowing I was likely to have equal success setting it on fire. Not worth the hassle of a refund as I'm sure that process would cause more stress than the occasional mosquito bite or two or dozen. Anyway, back to plan A which is taking a shot of mosquito repellant once a day in the hopes my body becomes innately repellant before I succumb to the more poisonous aspects of the chemicals. (Also don't share this post with any insurance companies; I don't want my death considered a suicide to negate my life insurance policies.)
Not that long ago, it was a huge thing. They'd put up big signs warning people about mosquitos, they'd have boy scouts go round to houses and rate people's anti-mosquito measures.
How dare people suggest I use bug replant spray?! It's my body, I decide what gets put onto my skin and possibly inhaled! Viruses from a mosquito are probably some fake news propaganda made in CHI-NA and I won't hear any of it! Stop selling insect replant in stores!!
Really we just need a disease to be visible enough and scary and people will be willing to get behind it. Covid was scary but not really visible. We need a disease that at least temporarily disfigures.
Like gunshots?
If we saw a lot of people with gunshot scars walking around that might do it.
You're kidding? It will be a reminder that we need more guns.
You will always have the dumb as fuck outliers, the internet makes that more pervasive. But, the anti-vax movement is based on the fact that we got really good at dealing with the scariest diseases so the extent that most people would see a big disease was chicken pox or the flu. Chicken pox is the most visable disease we still have in the west and its mainly just annoying. The flu is so misunderstood that we call things stomach flus and while the flu does kill a good number of people, its not really in public sight, most people get sick and get over it. Aids was scary but it was also seen as a gay disease and punishment from god by dipshits who would certainly never catch it since they certainly weren't gay. We don't really have a modern equivalent for polio or mumps, aside from polio or mumps which are starting to come back thanks to anti-vax assholes, but not in enough numbers to really scare people out of their stupid.
