Noise canceling headphones for portable DVD player

[The Monkey]

Many thanks for the kind offer, but she rather adamantly wants noise canceling.

[grawk]

Just yesterday tyll was talking up the bose QC15s

[Tyll Hertsens]

I thought the QC15 was good, but not the QC3. I thought the top-end Sony was good too. The Sennheisers kinda sucked.

[Dusty Chalk]

The Sennheisers kinda sucked.

Wait, what? When? I thought you said the top-of-the-line one was good and listenable?

That'll teach me not to eat pizza before bed...

[The Monkey]

I thought the QC15 was good, but not the QC3. I thought the top-end Sony was good too. The Sennheisers kinda sucked.

Thanks Tyll. I think I'm going to advise her to get the QC15.

[Tyll Hertsens]

Wait, what? When? I thought you said the top-of-the-line one was good and listenable?

That'll teach me not to eat pizza before bed...

I'm an idiot, I might have said Sennheiser when I meant Sony.

[Dusty Chalk]

So the Sonys kind of sucked?

[grawk]

So the Sonys kind of sucked?

no the senns did

[Dusty Chalk]

So what's the current non-Bose noise-canceling headphone of choice?  I've decided my Sony MDR-Z7 don't isolate enough at work, don't want to spend 8-ish hours/day wearing IEMs, so want the best non-Boses.

Or should I start using my DT770s again?

[n_maher]

https://www.innerfidelity.com/content/jbl-everest-elite-700-wireless-noise-canceling-over-ear-headphones

I personally don't find that any full-sized headphones isolate enough to be useful in terms of noise reduction so for non-IEMs I'd say active noise cancelling is the way to go.

[grawk]

I need active noise cancelling headphones that only block fan noise

 

 

[TMoney]

https://www.innerfidelity.com/content/innerfidelitys-wall-fame-noise-canceling

[grawk]

notice how none of those reviews mentions the noise cancellation that only emphasizes continuous noise, while allowing all other sound through?  I am very aware of inner fidelity

[TMoney]

19 minutes ago, grawk said:

notice how none of those reviews mentions the noise cancellation that only emphasizes continuous noise, while allowing all other sound through?  I am very aware of inner fidelity

Is there such a thing in a consumer facing product?

[grawk]

1 hour ago, grawk said:

I need active noise cancelling headphones that only block fan noise

 

 

 

6 minutes ago, TMoney said:

Is there such a thing in a consumer facing product?

Which is why I said the above.

 

[TMoney]

My first response was for Peter, for what it's worth. 

[Dusty Chalk]

Thanks, TMoney.

7 hours ago, n_maher said:

https://www.innerfidelity.com/content/jbl-everest-elite-700-wireless-noise-canceling-over-ear-headphones

I personally don't find that any full-sized headphones isolate enough to be useful in terms of noise reduction so for non-IEMs I'd say active noise cancelling is the way to go.

Yeah, I guess that's what I was getting at -- the DT770 did pretty well, but not as well as an IEM, so I'm seriously considering going over to fully active noise cancelling.

Didn't there used to be a Sony in that list?  

I'll go for the JBL, that's priced right for me.

Thanks, Nate.

[Craig Sawyers]

I got involved with noise cancellation at one stage

US5018203A.pdf

In the late 80's noise cancellation was in its infancy. So while I was working on that I found that Dick Rutan's round the world Voyager airplane used noise cancelling phones. So I phoned them up in the Mojave - and instantly got through to Dick Rutan. He told me that they were using an experimental Bose system, but that they broke around ten hours into the 9 day flight.

I also had a natty idea for enhancing the sound attenuation of double-glazed windows. The idea was to sense the sound pressure inside the cavity and use a transducer to servo that to zero (or as close to as possible). But a patent search revealed that someone else got there first. But no such system has been made available to my knowledge. 

Edited June 29, 2017 by Craig Sawyers

[mikeymad]

12 hours ago, Dusty Chalk said:

.... don't want to spend 8-ish hours/day wearing IEMs, so want the best non-Boses.

 

I spend about 4-6 hours of my day at work with my ETY's in.. a lot of the time with nothing playing. I am a big fan of isolation, and I know that IEMs are not for everyone, but they do the trick. 

(in they go -> goodbye cruel world)

[guzziguy]

Back when I last worked in a cubicle environment (2010), I found that ear buds (PK2) worked well for me.  The music was not audible to my neighbors.  I was isolated well from normal room noise and yet could easily deal when somebody wanted my attention.

Edit: Please note that I had music playing all the time.

Edited June 29, 2017 by guzziguy

[Dusty Chalk]

On 6/29/2017 at 1:04 PM, Dusty Chalk said:

I'll go for the JBL, that's priced right for me.

So the JBLs I ordered got canceled, so before I ordered them again from a different vendor, I investigated more fully something I stumbled upon in the interim:  my Walkman has a noise-canceling feature built-in!  It's designed for propietary Sony headphones, but none of them are of the caliber of the MDR-Z7.  I tried some Focals I happened to have on hand, but it amplified external noise rather than canceling it, so I presume the polarity is inverted, does that sound right?  I already contacted Sony, and they don't have an adapter so that I can use the MDR-Z7, so I'm thinking of buying a cheap pair of the noise-canceling for their microphones and hacking it for my use case.

Thoughts?

Or should I just order another pair of noise-canceling headphones of my choice?

[Dusty Chalk]

Alright, so back to the JBLs, but which ones?

http://www.jbl.com/everest-headphones.html

They have the 300, the 700, and the 750.  Tempted to get the 750s, because 50 moar better.

EDIT:  Er, make that the 310, the 710, and the 750.  And the 310 comes in purple!  I'm so torn -- get the purple, or get the moar better?

[wink]

I'd go for the moar bettah, but if you can get it in purple, then much moar bettah.......

[mypasswordis]

That link says only the "Everest Elite" models have noise canceling

[Dusty Chalk]

Yeah, that's why I singled them out.