This is the product that started it all.  A low cost, durable headphone that can stand the rigors of the classroom for an entire academic year.  For ONLY $4.00.  In any quantity.  Little schools are not penalized.  They get the same volume break as mega-school districts.  In fact, if we ever get a lower cost basis because of increasing sales volume, all our school customers will share equally in the savings.

We are so proud of this headphone. There is nothing else quite like it in the world.

Our K-4 design is the direct result of interviews held with more than 40 elementary classroom teachers who kindly knocked holes in every existing headphone design I placed before them. At the end of the sessions I had an enormously long list of things that were wrong with headphones and a very short list of things these teachers felt were needed in an educational headset for primary school children. K-4 is the manifestation of that short list. 12” ear lobe to ear lobe, K-4 is an ultra-durable headphone at a modest price. The K-4 uses 32ohm samarium cobalt based drivers to provide quality sound and a 1.2 meter round reinforced cable with an inline gold plated stereo 3.5mm plug. The entire headphone is constructed of hypoallergenic materials to assure childrens’ safety. Each K-4 is packed in a ZIP type polybag with a write-on panel for SANITARY /Personalized storage. As I said, we are really proud of this item.

K-4a is a mono plugged audiology version of that headphone so small children who use monaural FM listening systems can have a headphone that properly fits them. 12” ear lobe to ear lobe, K-4a is an ultra-durable headphone at a modest price. The audiology K-4a has 64ohm samarium cobalt based drivers driven in parallel to 32 ohms net impedance, a 1.0 meter round reinforced cable with 90 degree gold plated mono 3.5mm plug. The entire headphone is constructed of hypoallergenic materials to assure childrens’ safety.

Talbot’s a little older now.  Can you tell?  SP-1’s just aren’t fashionable enough for today’s teens (and pre-teens for that matter).  Hence, BACKPHONE, an incredible sounding headphone that wraps behind the head.  Girls like this because the headband falls below their hairline.  When not being worn BACKPHONES ride comfortably around the neck.  We deviated from our love of polypropylene for this headband.  It is small and we were concerned about hyperflexing the material.  Instead we used nylon for this headband and achieved our old measure of performance (knot tying).  This headphone sounds like a $25 premium brand.  We are proud of everything about it.

This is a product that has been long in coming.  Our first multi-media headphone (SP-1m) worked respectably, but it was rushed to meet the needs of some large school districts.  It, frankly, disappointed me.  It has taken four years and hundreds of samplings, but I now believe we’ve got it right. (the colors are a tip of the hat to my alma mater NCSU, We may have trouble selling these in Chapel Hill).  Note the short boom microphone.  This pivots for optimum placement yet is durable enough to withstand classroom use.  The microphone capsule, though omni directional has excellent noise rejection characteristics.  Placement is intended back from the corner of the mouth to prevent breath moisture from contaminating the windscreen (just incase this is a lab use) and to keep “P” from become EX-Plosive.

Cost is extraordinarily low for a headphone with these performance characteristics and mated with a PC Widget it makes the perfect travelers headphone for flying, SKYPING, etc.

25 of your chosen headphones packed in a snap top storage container.  Includes Write-on ZIP top bags for headphone storage.  Even the Sharpie marker for personalizing the headphones and bags is included.

CPK        Classpack with original SP-1 SchoolPhones.

CPK-4     Classpack with K-4 Schoolphones

CPK-B    Classpack with BACKPhone Schoolphones

CPK-M   Classpack with BACKPhone Media Schoolphones