For years people have been telling me that family, love and happiness are the most important things in life…Today I realise that I can take or leave all that as long as I have this radio accessory in the world.
As a tech reporter/writer guy, I’m presumably an avowed early adopter who’s surfing a wave of new and unreleased gadgets all-day, everyday. For the purposes of my work life this is absolutely true, but outside the job this is hardly the case. Up until about a month ago, I had never even so much as used noise-canceling headphones. Now I can’t imagine ever taking them off.
Here’s the broad idea behind how noise cancellation works. As you cue up your desired audio diversions, microphones outside the headphones detect all that nasty environmental noise that would otherwise interfere, be it a noisy city street or the low-frequency drone of an airplane in flight. Because all sound waves have a mirror opposite of “anti-noise,” we can play that anti-noise into our ears and, for all intents and purposes, we can engineer silence.
Noise-canceling headphones take this bit of acoustics science and make it dead simple to apply. At a certain point these ceased being “noise-canceling headphones” and instead just become “really great headphones.” That’s the thing about this review – all of the products below are great. I tried three different models from three different manufacturers and each one was tremendously effective in reducing or eliminating the din of the subway or sidewalk. There are things to love about each one, so let’s get into it.
Here are my thoughts on three models I tested.
Logitech UE 9000 – $319.99
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