[EIDXA] Noise Cancelling Headphones

[Jason Joens NR0X]

They climbed off my head, went to the fridge, and got me a soda.

Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Haendel [mailto:rhaendel at Q.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 4:16 PM
To: Jason Joens NR0X
Subject: Re: [EIDXA] Noise Cancelling Headphones

For the price they want for those phones, it should work the radio and turn
the antenna too !!

Rich W3ACO

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Joens NR0X" <jason at nr0x.org>
To: "EIDXA Reflector" <eidxa at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 3:39 PM
Subject: [EIDXA] Noise Cancelling Headphones


>I bought a pair of Beats Executive Noise Cancelling Headphones. Music 
>sounds
> amazing in them, but the "active noise cancelling" is a dismal failure. 
> I
> wore them for 30 seconds, put them in a box, and returned them to Staples.
> Then I turned to Best Buy, and picked up a pair of Bose QuietComfort 15
> headphones.
>
> Ok, these things are creepy!!
>
> It's like your ears have an off switch or something.   You put them on, 
> and
> everything gets pretty quiet.  Then you flip the switch, and they reach
> inside your skull and unplug your ears from your head!  Until you turn on
> the radio.  After wearing them for awhile, I took them off and was blown
> away by how loud this room is, and I never noticed it before!
>
> Thanks to N0YY for turning me on to noise cancelling headphones, to 
> Staples
> for having a return policy, and to Bose for being insane enough to make
> these things!
>
>
>
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