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Major Questions to Ask when Purchasing Classroom Headphones for your Kid

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Ashar Habib

Do you want to know how to buy a best quality of headphones for the school or classroom use? You might have seen the use of headphones in classroom for listening purposes which enable the student to interact with the audio programs at a comfortable pace. An ordinary consumer headphone is ideal for playing the tunes during the quick jog or even during the long bus ride.

A variety of classroom headphones are available in market and each one of them is different in terms of features to adapt the one which suits your listening requirements. In school, different computers and media players are found of all abilities and ages so choosing the right one is extremely important.

To buy a headphone for school use, ask the manufacturer a few questions which can help you to pick a good quality of classroom headphone for your kid. Let’s see those important questions below:

Are these headphones best for the rugged classroom use?

While committing to any of the headphone, you should consider the one which is best in durability and it is offered with best rugged nature too. Consumer’s headphones are generally not built to withstand for the everyday classroom use.

They do have the custom features which can increase the durability including baffled grills to simply protect delicate speaker drivers from straight probing fingers or the pencils.

Can you use these headphones with the mono or stereo equipment?

School headphones are available either in the stereo or the mono sound. But there are some of the models which can switch between both the modes. It is important to consider that you are using the mono compatible headphones with the mono players (or jackboxes) as well as stereo with the stereo.

Some of the classroom headphones are great to work with the older media players for example, cassette tape players. Hence, Mono headphones do split a single audio track which is in between both speakers. In this way, the sound from each of the speaker is exactly the same.

When choosing the mono or the stereo headphones, be careful with the size of those headphones’ input plug. All the media players have the built-in jacks that yet accept either the 1/4 inch or the 1/8 inch (3.5mm) plugs.

Are these headphones promote proper hygiene?

It’s a fact that in a school, a headphone set is used by many students throughout the whole day for different purposes. Therefore, it is important to make sure that your headphones are hygienic enough and remain sanitary based.

Classroom headphones do feature replaceable as well as washable earcup cushions which are quite easy to clean with the help of alcohol or soap and water.  Most of the headphones are also included with the individual sanitary bags for reducing the spread of lice or any other vermin.

Does the warranty cover classroom use?

Most of the manufacturing brands of the consumer-grade headphones offer the product warranties. But all these warranties are covering the general use. Library or for classroom use, it might void manufacturer warranties.

Any classroom headphone manufacturers will provide warranties to get it cover with the classroom use. You should carefully read the fine print of that product warranty before you plan to buy it.

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