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Article #9320Re: Best Buy Treated Me Like a Thief
From: Geoff Gass
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 19:00
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 19:00
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phk <dr_gee79@hotmail.com.GOBBLEDYGOOK> wrote: > In article <43BE62F9.1508@trentland.com>, trent <oozenet@trentland.com> wrote: >>> Do you know of a good noise cancelling headphone? that has good passive noise >>> filtering. i have one by Bose. it's quite expensive. but it does not work >> very >>> well passively (only -3dB, [snip] >> >>Passive noise filtering? WTFIT? A big foam cup over your ear is not >>cancellation. > > yes, i do understand the difference. as i use both types of headphones & they > block out different types of noise. > > what i meant was, noise cancelling headphones tend to have poor passive > filtering. > All ear mufflers (big foam cups type) are good (passive) filtering, but > don't have (active) noise cancelling. > > since they work differently, neither is ideal for me as i want both in one. Uh, <http://www.bose.co.uk/noise_reduction/qc2_headphones/> lots of NC headphones have foam cups. > btw, what is WTFIT? What the F is that
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