OK just got a pair of banging headphones...

[SnowSurfer]

My girlfriend bought me a pair of shure headphones for xmas...what a difference these things make. i can listen to the 'pod on low volume and totally just hear music and nothing else. just giving these things a plug, they are great

[ArkiStan]

I know what you're talking about. I had a pair of e2c's. Thanks to a hookup by a good' ol GA comrade, I'm upgrading to the e4c at a good price. These sound great!

[SnowSurfer]

i wore them snowboarding today, dont have to even have the music up that high to hear just the music

[modena]

what type of headphones did you get?

[SnowSurfer]

what type of headphones did you get?



shure e2c's

[Chgoman]

You'll have to tell us how different the E4's sound from the E2's when you get them. I've just started to look at them and was looking at the E2's and E3's. Trying to figure out if the extra $ is worth it.

[Itsme]

I've been looking to buy some noise cancelling headphones...these sound interesting.

Besides the high cost of the Bose units, I can't stand the plastic earpieces...on long international flights thay make my ear sweat alot...I have to take off the Bose ones (they let me use them for free on the plane) every hour or so to wipe the sweat off.

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Headphones Made for a Noisy World
Sony's MDR-NC50 noise-canceling headphones are a stylish way to block outside noise
By WILSON ROTHMAN
SUBSCRIBE TO TIMEPRINTE-MAILMORE BY AUTHORHow Much?: $200
More Information: sonystyle.com

Posted Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2005
On the subject of last minute holiday gifts, allow me to recommend noise-canceling headphones. They come exceptionally handy for travelers who want to listen to the in-flight entertainment —or more likely, an iPod —instead of the kid in the next row back who has yet to discover his internal volume knob.

Up until now, Bose's Quiet Comfort 2 headphones have reigned in the land of noise cancellation. They're still king, but they're locked in an ivory tower, at the rarely discounted price of $300. Sony's MDR-NC50s do the job, and can be found for much much less than its $200 list price. A Froogle Search turns up pricing, from recognizable stores, as low as $125. (If you always hit the lowest bidder, no matter who it might be, you can get it cheaper still.)

So, for less than half the price of the Bose, Sony offers an elegant pair of headphones, with glossy piano-black "cans" to cover your ears, and a detachable wire to connect to your source. You only need a single AAA battery to power it up, and it will last up to 30 hours. Since noise-cancellation uses microphones to listen to the environment, there's also a "Monitor" button that sends through everything outside, so you don't have to take off your headphones to tell the flight attendant what kind of beverage you want.

Noise cancellation doesn't seal off everything, but it does create a calmer environment for you to hear your own music. The recreation of music by the MDR-NC50s is clear and full —pristine in fact. It could be louder, however.

For contrast, I tested another pair of $200 noise-canceling headphones, the Solitude headset from Outside the Box, Inc. It wasn't as clear a sound, but it did provide more juice, owing perhaps to the second AAA battery it required. Besides a little extra volume, the Solitude pair offered something else that the Sony could use: a collapsable frame. Like I said, the Sony pair is beautiful, but it takes up a lot of room. The Solitudes fold up into a bag that's about half the size of the Sony.

Still, the Sony has the Solitude beat in sound quality, and — for smart web shoppers — in price.

[ArkiStan]

I've been looking to buy some noise cancelling headphones...these sound interesting.


Have you ever used the squishy orange 3M ear plugs that you roll between your fingers and place in your ear? Well, the Shure earphones have squishy ear plugs that basically do that while playing excellent high-fidelity sound. It directly blocks noise as opposed to using sound wave cancellation like the Bose. The Bose method is high-tech, but its effectivity is generally considered insufficient.