For those whose idea of "bass" is something with the overpressure of a shaped charge and the cyclic frequency of a steam locomotive, a larger earpiece is required than is available on standard headphones. Viking headphones house a massive driver in a curved, perfectly optimized waveguide to inflict all of that window-bending audio directly onto the tympanic membranes.

The on-cord equalizer includes two presets, "Ragnarok" and "Wagner".
-- lurch, Nov 26 2002

(??) I think she's wearing them in this picture . . . http://www.geocitie...raypages/index.html
Art by [RayfordSteele]. [bristolz, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]

(??) Horns. http://www.bluetail...~rv/viking-helmets/
real Viking helmets probably didn't have them [mrthingy, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]

Minnesota Vikings helmet http://www.nflhelmetstore.com/vikings.htm
[mrthingy, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]

[RayfordSteele] wanted a reminder. Here it is. http://news.bbc.co....olitics/8410302.stm
But what good is a limit on the MP3 player if you have super-efficient, amplified headphones? [lurch, Dec 13 2009]

I like the image. Do they come in a range of sizes? I want to listen to the Ring cycle with my Mighty Valhalla set.
-- PeterSilly, Nov 26 2002


Yes!
-- my face your, Nov 26 2002


Remind me to invest in the hearing aid market as our generation ages.
-- RayfordSteele, Nov 26 2002


Comes with the battleaxe CD player?
-- DrCurry, Nov 26 2002


Can I get mine with Brunhilde braids attached?
-- 1percent, Nov 26 2002


(mental picture of lurch wearing a copper bra-plate... eww...)
-- RayfordSteele, Nov 26 2002


//(mental picture of lurch wearing a copper bra-plate... eww...)// - shush, DrC will hear...
-- PeterSilly, Nov 27 2002


Wow. These'd probably ensure me my own seat on the rush hour bus (+).
-- madradish, Dec 16 2002


[mrthingy] - I had found that exact page while trying to ensure the historical accuracy of this invention. I finally decided that historical accuracy could go hang, 'cause I was going to put horns on anyway.
-- lurch, Dec 16 2002


You could call them Minnesota Viking headphones. Then there would be no inaccuracy (if you were concerned about that).
-- mrthingy, Dec 16 2002


Hmm, yeah... maybe one of those football helmets with the oversized concussion prevention cap. Involve the entire upper cranial surface for audio... I can see it, but I'm afraid there might be a new idea in it. Appropriate cred to you when it happens, [mrthingy]. Or feel free to beat me to it.
-- lurch, Dec 16 2002


Oh, go ahead.
-- mrthingy, Dec 16 2002


<swisscheese tag, UnaBubba's deleted anno asking> How big are these headphones?</swiss>

I think I'll have to take a hacksaw to a Bose speaker to find out how to set it up. Probably about 20 inches by 14 (measured as per Boone & Crockett bison rules, C & D1), but mostly hollow so not too heavy.
-- lurch, May 07 2003


I hope lurch baked this.
-- skinflaps, Feb 12 2004


Personally, I'd like to see that hoary old "arrow-through-the-head" doohickey redone in a combined headphone/MP3 player version.
-- lostdog, Feb 12 2004


I so wish that I could bun this again. Every time I read this I Cheshire smile. Great.

Equalizers affixed each horn, Yeah!
-- skinflaps, Nov 04 2006


Nice (+) Jerith was a genius.
-- Shadow Phoenix, Oct 19 2007


Interesting. The //copper bra-plate// presumably holds a sub-woofer for inflicting the deep bass into your abdominal cavity?
-- pocmloc, Dec 13 2009


An ice pick would be much cheaper, mercifully quicker, and only marginally more painful.
-- outloud, Dec 15 2009



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