I have some cheap $40 over-the-ear headphones that reduce 80+% of airplane noise, so I bring them on trips to Europe and use them (without the noise canceling feature, I’m not at an airport when I’m] at work.
My wife can’t stand all the July 4 fireworks noises and camps out in the basement. I asked her if she thought some better noise cancelling headphones would be warrranted, and she didn’t say no, so that means maybe yes.
In our basement you would only hear maybe 20% of what you would hear outside, mostly just downpouring rain but pretty soon lots of fireworks. Are there good headphones that will eliminate noise even better so that my wife won’t be bothered?
Looking for recommendations, thx
Bose and Sony are the gold standards. The latest and greatest are $$$, imo save money and get a slightly older version, especially for Sony. The XM5 models have some kind of tech that automatically switches between noise canceling vs none and I’m told it’s not that great.
I have both the big Sony (WH-1000 XM3) and the buds (WF-1000XM3). The earbuds offer about 80% of the noise cancelling performance of the big ones and I typically go for those. I reserve the big ones for long travel days when I want the added comfort and longer battery life. I got my ear buds as Amazon refurbs like four years ago, substantially cheaper than new.
Bose are amazing, I personally find the Sony just a bit more comfortable, ymmv. You can get Bose at Costco and get the Costco warranty with them.
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Bump for the “new” “trend”: wires!!
Could put in “studies with obvi results” thread, but there was no study.
Heck, my next car audio might include a CD player, as my iPod will die eventually. I’ll lose my bro-in-law’s burned albums, but I still have my collection, most of which is not on my iTunes or iPod.
Still using some 20-year-old Beats. Yes, wired.
I should see where I put my dongle, lol. I have wireless Sony headphones and earbuds, and they are nice. They pair just fine about 97% of the time and I like not having wires if I’m working in the yard. But I do sometimes miss the sound of my wired headphones, I have some AudioTechnica M50 and a pair of Grado SR-60.
I tried my Bose QCs in wired vs wireless mode when Spotify finally released lossless audio, and I could not tell a difference. I don’t think its audio quality.
BT is infuriating once you pair something with multiple something elses. Or if you have two+ of anything in one house/area/office. How have we gone this long with such a stupid way to connect things.
I hate the fact that my phone is paired with my wife’s car (our main car, we don’t really have a his and hers cars) so every time I am listening with my ear buds and she leaves the house in the car, my phone attaches to the car until she is far enough away that it detaches.