Noise Canceling Headphones
 

I've seen a lot of headphones threads here, but nothing about noise canceling headphones. I fly a bit and was thinking of upgrading headphones anyone have any thoughts on them? I was thinking about some thing like this,Sennheiser PXC250but not sure if it's worth the money. Thanks!

Dont go cheap on noise cancelling headphones. I have a pair of sony headphones that ran about $75. They are good for listening but their noise cancelling is not the best. I had a pair of seinhesser without noise cancelling and they would not turn up as loud as other headphones, makes we monder how their nose cancelers sound. I would go with Bose if you can afford it, otherwise you should be happy with sennheiser. Try and listen to them before you buy. And read reviews from places like tomshardware.com

On the subject of noise cancellation, are there available larger area-sized units that could work for say, my table saw?

A microphone, processor, amplifier and a large speaker. Record the noise, the processor turns everything 180 degrees out of phase from the recording and plays it back through the speaker at the same spl level.

Very tough to do real time - and costly The processing required to distinguish the 'bad' noise from things like speech, intercoms, etc. is pretty in depth. :crazy: .

Auto manufacturers have been working on it for years for in-car applications.

I haven't had the pleasure of hearing the Sennheiser's, but the Bose Quiet Comfort are nothing to write home about. They are overly bass heavy and there is a background hum/hiss from the noise cancelation.

I travel with another model of the Sennheisers and have been very pleased with their sound quality and the noise cancelling (at least they work well with jet engine noise.) If you are not travelling all the time, remember to remove the batteries. Good Luck

I haven't used the Sennheisers... I travel a lot and have been quite happy with my Bose Quiet Comfort ones. Actually, I have the first generation ones, so if I had to do it all over, I'd get the second gen headsets. Several of my peers have tried different ones (Sony, et al) and they like the Bose ones the best. Then again, there's a huge price difference. Good luck.

Well I bought a pair of Radio Shack (40 bucks) noise canceling headphones and they suck. On or off the sound is weak, the ear buds that came with my ipod are much better! Now I wonder what Radio shacks return policy is..

My dad uses the Bose noise cancelling headphones in his plane (Piper Arrow). When I tried them out I found them very effective and comfortable. Lightweight, with soft ear cups and a firm headband. The sound quality was fine (its not like airplanes have ultra hi-fi audio amps in them for playing simple radio transmissions...) I've never used any of the "fancy" ones (and for $1000, I don't think I'd *want* to go any fancier than Bose).