Audífonos

Audífonos
 

This is a discussion thread for the Daily Spanish Word for June 13, 2009

audífonos (masculine noun (los)) — headphones. Look up audífonos in the dictionary

Los audífonos de color negro son los más solicitados.
Black headphones are the most asked for.

En España solemos denominarlos "auriculares" o "cascos" (los más grandes).

Audífonos son muy bueno para se tiene si se quiera escuchar a la música más alta y quedarse sordo;)

Cierto. :)

Es bueno saberlo. Gracias.

En México, el auricular is the handset of a telephone, y un casco is a helmet. :)

Sí mi ipod es en español (España) y veo la palabra "auriculares" como "headphones" ¿tambien pueden significan "earphones"?

Sí.
It looks like these terms can mean the same thing, but some say:

earphones = audífonos
headphones = auriculares o cascos

Others say that only the hard-of-hearing wear audífonos, but I found plenty of evidence that both terms (all but cascos) can be used for earphones or headphones. When you think about it, we use headphones as a general term. Technically, though, headphones go over the ear (auricular), earphones fit over the auditory canal, earbuds are pushed into the auditory canal, but not as far as canal-phones, and hearing aides are pushed in just as far as canal-phones.

Gracias

In Spain is not like this:

- Audífono: hearing aid (for people who doesn't hear well)
- Auricular: earphones, headphones and handset.
- Cascos: headphones and, sometimes, also earphones. Casco is also a helmet, but "cascos", in plural, besides helmets, mean headphones. I say that sometimes mean earphones because people say cascos instead of auriculares many times.