I didn’t see a thread for this, but what are the best noise- cancelling headphones? I use a few pairs on the subway and in planes (unfortunately I am in those a lot). Forum thoughts?
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Edited - that’s actually what I meant, sorry. I have heard the new Airpods are good.Have you considered active noise cancellation? I find it more or less essential for buses, trains, planes now as it kills the low frequencies and rumble from engine noise. Very happy with my AirPod Pro 2 here.
Is it?The consensus is that Airpods Pro 2 have the best ANC among IEMs.
There's nothing definitive about how well these graphics represent real world use. Because, no standardized metric for for ANC performance exists.
I don't know which in-ear wireless headphones has the best noise isolation, I have no arguments to make there however I wanted to say that I would not take the rankings rtings.com provide on its face value, because they need to reduce a whole lot of complexity into a single number, and as we all know very well, lots of details that might be important at times got lost when you turn a complex measurement into a single metric.
Which is why I included links where you can look at and compare noise isolation graphs which shows each IEM's performance across the frequency range, as well as listen to sound recordings with non-synthetic noise.There's nothing definitive about how well these graphics represent real world use. Because, no standardized metric for for ANC performance exists.
Yes, because I find its results to be highly volatile, and somewhat in conflict with other Harman research (e.g. the FR of the DCA Stealth and 800S are computed as equally preferable).OTOH Harmans model for FR produces a numerical score that has been verified to have some predictive power. Yet you have criticized it:
So why on earth are you elevating arbitrary numbers now?
Oh please.