Headphones for Flying?
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i have some klipsch in ear ones, i find them good enough and they are what i use at coffee shops and whatnot if i go work from one and use them. i don't totally feel the need for the big ones and they muss up your hurr too. i keep these in the tin they came with which is like half the size of a mouse? i don't think i'd enjoy the extra bulk of flying with those bigger headphones, although they are certainly nicer.
i'm usually listening to music, i suppose i might have a different opinion if trying to watch a movie and dialogue was tough to make out... maybe... but probably not
i'm usually listening to music, i suppose i might have a different opinion if trying to watch a movie and dialogue was tough to make out... maybe... but probably not
In ear Shure memory foam ear plugs. super comfy, super tight seal and blocks most engine noise on planes in a small package. These blow the Bose ones out of the water in the environment noise department.
Pick any model that uses these:
Black Foam Sleeves | Shure Americas
Pick any model that uses these:
Black Foam Sleeves | Shure Americas
What bose ones do these blow out of the water?
I wore these for 1200 to 1600 hours last year while sitting next to a diesel motor at 2500 rpm. I also like that for $20 i can send them to bose and get a new pair in under a week.
https://www.bose.com/en_us/products...20i-acoustic-noise-cancelling-headphones.html
I rock the Bose QC35. Never thought I'd buy Bose (Blows) but I've been impressed with that they're doing in certain cars and in the portable speaker world. Wireless is liberating, that's for sure, and they work as a wireless phone headset too. The headphones are light and comfortable and the noise cancellation drowns out considerably more background noise than my previous Audio-Technica over-the-ear headphones. The sound quality is OK, not spectacular. I'm not sure if there's any credence to headphone burn-in, but I've only put a few hours on these so far.
It was the $130 Bose ones. My shures were around $100.
For $250, do they scratch your balls too?
Turns out the noise-cancelling on the Bose and Sony headphones I tried gave me a headache over time, so I went with some Jaybird Freedoms. They're super low-profile which helps as I already carry a ton of stuff on the plane with me already, and rely on foam inserts like the Shure ones for passive noise cancelling.
They're mostly made of metal and sound great so here's hoping they hold up.
They're mostly made of metal and sound great so here's hoping they hold up.
Got a couple pair of these from a vendor and work awesome, basically removes all jet engine noise
Jabra EVOLVE 80 headset with active noise cancellation
Jabra EVOLVE 80 headset with active noise cancellation
I have a pair of Bose QC25s, the predecessor to the newer QC35s. They are over the ear, but the noise cancelling is awesome. I work in a lot of datacenters, they are extremely noisy. You can barely hear a person next to you talking. I can have a phone conversation with these on and forget I'm surrounded by 70dB+ of noise. Flying with them cancels out the crying baby or that person that talks during an entire 8 hour flight. Well worth the $$.
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