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Anyone got a recommendation of a good pair? I want to be able to slip them on, turn them on, and block out everything, mostly the subway and people talking. Around-ear is preferred, and I do not want anything that's by Bose or Dr. Dre.
1) Active would be preferred
2) Price range should be under $200 CAD before tax, however will spend more if it's reasonable
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You should define your price range and what type of noise canceling headphones you want.
With a passive noise canceling or headphones with an additional active noise canceling features.
The passive ones just isolate your ear from the surrounding noise, similar to ear protection used on construction sites. They are good for higher frequency, not what you are looking for.
The active ones can be divided in analog and digital. The analog records the incoming audio with a microphone and sends a dephased signal back which eliminates the incoming. They are cheaper and easier to build. The digital noise canceling records the incoming noise with microphones, too, converts it to digital signals which then gets, together with your music, processed by an DSP and special algorithms and later converted back to analog signals which then you hear. This technology is much more expensive, but also better
Passive noise canceling eliminates higher frequency, active lower frequency, just as you want, like subway.
A german magazine (Elektor Oct. 2009) tested a few active noise canceling headphones recently, both analog and digital and also headphones and in-ear phones and the best, regarding noise canceling and sound quality was the Sony MDR-NC500D, also very good was the Sennheiser PXC 450, the smaller version, the Sennheiser PXC 300 was a small bit worse, but is smaller, not that expensive and more comfortable. Else, they also tested the Audio Technica ATH-ANC7, Bose QuietComfort 3 and JVC HA-NC250.
Just to give you a direction you could look at.
Or do you prefer in-ear phones, like the Philips SHN7500 or others?
However, what was interesting to read was the fact that most of them allowed to pass a small amount of human speech. So don't expect that you'll hear nothing from outside
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SR60i, SR80i, HD280 and HD555 are also good options.
I actually just put in an order of Allessandro MS1's, the 2009 version, which is a modded SR80i. $109 USD shipped, not bad considering the strong Canadian dollar
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Noise cancelling headphones
Discussion in 'Accessories' started by fred2028, Oct 15, 2009.
