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(More customer reviews)I basically live on airplanes. I fly somewhere over 250,000 miles a year every year.I'm also an amateur audiophile and have a really cool 2 channel stereo system, as well as lots of other high end audio gear.I've owned nearly every brand of noise cancelling headset, as well as used ones I haven't owned. These are by far the best value out there for Around the Ear headphones, bar none.Its true that if you have large ears, these may cramp your style, but this is true of ALL around the ear headphones worn over a long period of time.Thats why most major manufacturers have also introduced OVER THE EAR units as well.
As far as noise cancelling and sound quality, these headphones are at the top of the class. I've worn the ridiculously expensive Bose QCs for years, and the price is downright scandalous. I always am amazed at how many suckers pay for these, when they are no better or worse than all the other ones I have.
At the moment, I have Sennhieser PC300, Philips HN110, Sony HC6 (I think) and have sold my Bose QC2s to pay for ALL of these. So I have both an over the ear (sennheiser,sony) and around the ear (philips). I travel with either the Sennhieser (90% of the time) and the Philips (10%) of the time, but I use the Philips 100% of the time for at home game playing and music listening when I don't want to wake the family. I travel with the Sennheisers more often simply because they take up much less space in my carry on bag. But on long flights (asia, etc), I bring the philips
The Sennhiesers are over the ear and probably have the nicest sound quality, but these Philips are a nearly close second.The Philips also have very very good noise cancelling. The Sony's are generally decent, and are basically balanced overall, not excelling at any one thing.I tend not to use them that much, as they don't have great audio quality.
My ears are not that huge I guess, and these Philips are nice to wear for me. The Bose hurt quite a bit over time, just like any around the ear. I recently wore a pair of Bose QC3 over the ears on a flight from London to New York, and they hurt quite a bit as well (they were complimentary on a American Airlines business class flight). And the sound quality was lousy, as well as the noise cancelling was sub par.
But Bose spends lots O' money on marketing. Philips is basically inept at everything but making things. So you would have to search for these to discover them as a value.
A couple of rules of thumb.
1)ALL around the ear headphones will hurt if you have large ears.
2)NO noise cancelling headphones cancel all noise....they all work the same way, there is no magic (if you are into reading technical specs, you can see this for yourself, don't take my word for it)
3)Bose are priced 5-6 times what they could be priced
4)Most NC headsets between $35-$100 have decent sound quality and around the same NC characteristics
5)ALL over the ear headsets have marginally less NC characteristics than around the ear due to the physical design
Conclusion. Don't be fooled by fancy TV ads, billboards, and other seductive marketing.The product cost the same as all the others inside. Noise Cancelling has been around for 30 odd years, and hasn't changed that much, beyond miniaturization of the silicon chips that cancel the noise, and huge improvement is small speaker quality.But these are not exclusive to one manufacturer.Anyone can make decent NC headphones.
From someone who has worn them all, and has a taste for music and lives on airplanes, I can recommend these units.You could buy 10 pair of these for the functionally equivalent bose QCs, and not really experience any difference.
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Take the foldable HN110 headphone with you on your travels and enjoy great music everywhere - even in noisy environments like buses, trains and airplanes. It's a full-size headphone that covers your whole ear, yet it folds up for compact storage in the soft pouch supplied. The active noise canceling technology is easy adjusted using the controls that are conveniently integrated into the headphone shells.
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