Noise-Cancelling Headphones

I'm getting some because they have better quality and I don't want to be really bored on my drive up to Providence, RI (I should have gotten them a long time ago actually; we drive a lot.)
Anyway, which of these are the best? (Or offer another alternative, I don't care, but stay in the $30-ish pricerange please)

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Thanks.

The three models you shown are probably bad.

Go for "Eymotic" brand, it features isolation (from 150 to 400 dollars):



http://www.headphone.com/products/headphones/in-ear-monitor/
    

Edited by oliverstoned - September 22 2006 at 02:05

If he wants something decent, he has to invest more.

Yes Sony only did crap in headphones, except one old big studio model.

Sennheiser did the best electrodynamic headphones ever (the HD600), which doesn't mean that all their range is good. Don't dream, you can't have quality headphones for 20€ or 30€. 100€ is the minimum.




    

Edited by oliverstoned - September 22 2006 at 05:38

Yes, to listen to some met**l on MP3, a 5€ headphones is sufficient.

It was some "prog" metal probably

What a narcissistic web site!

So you'd need two pairs of headphones: one for real music, one for metal.


    
    

Edited by oliverstoned - September 22 2006 at 07:22

oliverstoned wrote: What a narcissistic web site!

If I had meant it to be narcisstic, I would have called it www.mikeenregalia.com ... or www.mikeenregalia-the-biggest-musicfreak-ever.com!

^ and not as expensive. (60€)

Because I was very dissatisfied with the inability to mask noise during air travel of the Sony MDR-EX71SL Fontopia in-the-ear earphones that MikeEnRegalia recommended, I looked around a lot for noise cancelling headphones and finally plumped for Sennheiser PXC 250 after reading many good reviews (see Amazon.com, for example). Light, foldable, and good noise cancellation on aeroplanes. Got them new for around GBP 59 (including p&p) on eBay. The sound quality is excellent and I recommend them. You can switch off the noise cancellation circuitry and listen to the music completely unmodified if you want, which is good for home use. These are very comfortable yet compact headphones, and the physical shape of the padded phones helps to cut out external noise before you even turn on the noise cancellation electronics.

More expensive than Ghandi 2's budget, however. But I agree with oliverstoned, if he wants something decent, he has to invest more.

I also have the Sony MDR-EX71SL Fontopia in-the-ear earphones that MikeEnRegalia recommended, but I would not recommend them. Firstly they don't work well on aeroplanes and you have to crank up the volume to hear the music (and thus risk damaging your hearing). Secondly, the lead design is poor and results in the left earphone being tugged out of one's ear. Thirdly, the length of the lead is slightly too short to reach an MP3 player clipped to one's belt, so you have to resort to using the included extension lead which then makes the overall lead too long and fiddly and adds additional weight to the lead, making the second problem I mention above even worse.



Edited by Fitzcarraldo - September 22 2006 at 11:10