Storing headphones directly behind a monitor.

[pschlute]

Is it ok to store my headphones (old fashioned can -type) behind my monitor screen ?

They fit very neatly out of the way resting on the support arm, but this does mean that they rest directy behind the screen. Is there anything in the headphones that could possibly damage the screen, like magnetism ?

It is lovely EIZO screen and I don't want to harm it !!

[xpatUSA]

Is it ok to store my headphones (old fashioned can -type) behind my monitor screen ?

They fit very neatly out of the way resting on the support arm, but this does mean that they rest directy behind the screen. Is there anything in the headphones that could possibly damage the screen, like magnetism ?

It is lovely EIZO screen and I don't want to harm it !!

Peter,

You may be thinking of CRT screens where a magnetic field can affect the stream of electrons going from the gun to the screen.

Shouldn't happen on an LCD monitor. Plasma, I don't know.

[rpcrowe]

I place my phones over my computer...

[Manfred M]

Plasma, I don't know.

Do they even make plasma screens anymore? I know they were a technology used in large screen televisions, but never ran into one as a computer screen.

I seem to remember the main reason for using plasma displays was cost / issues in scaling LCD technology to larger sizes. They were quite inefficient from an energy standpoint (although they were better than the CRT televisions that they replaced) and had terrible burn-in issues making them unsuitable for computer displays.

[Manfred M]

Peter - I agree with Ted on this one. So far as I know, there is nothing that the magnets in headphones will affect on an LCD screen.

In the "old days", about 10 years ago, when I did a lot of video editing, I would hang my headphones from the end of my computer screen, as this was a convenient place to store them. I never saw any issues with the display. In fact, my wife's old display had speakers built into the screen that were built into the bottom of the screen bezel.

[xpatUSA]

Peter - I agree with Ted on this one. So far as I know, there is nothing that the magnets in headphones will affect on an LCD screen.

In the "old days", about 10 years ago, when I did a lot of video editing, I would hang my headphones from the end of my computer screen, as this was a convenient place to store them. I never saw any issues with the display. In fact, my wife's old display had speakers built into the screen that were built into the bottom of the screen bezel.

The thing with headphones is that the flux from the round magnet is concentrated in the coil area by an iron spigot, so not much of the flux gets out to mess with nearby objects. The return flux probably has metal in it's path, too, at a guess.

On the other hand, placing a bar magnet - such as found in guitar pickups - directly onto a CRT screen has been known to cause a bit of distortion.

[pschlute]

In fact, my wife's old display had speakers built into the screen that were built into the bottom of the screen bezel.

I had never even thought of that !

Thanks for the replies. you have confirmed what I expected, but thought it was worth asking anyway.

ps. Richard.... my computer sits on the floor. Rio and Ripley would be forever knocking them off !

[Manfred M]

The thing with headphones is that the flux from the round magnet is concentrated in the coil area by an iron spigot, so not much of the flux gets out to mess with nearby objects. The return flux probably has metal in it's path, too, at a guess.

On the other hand, placing a bar magnet - such as found in guitar pickups - directly onto a CRT screen has been known to cause a bit of distortion.

That makes perfect sense Ted. No ferrous metals stick to my headphones, so there's very little flux leakage, so far as I can tell.

I just grabbed a strong rare earth magnet and ran it around my screen. This is a bit of a light tug on the bezel, so there must be some steel in the frame. Nothing at all happens when I touch the screen itself.