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Article #9324Re: Best Buy Treated Me Like a Thief
From: trent
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 19:51
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 19:51
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Geoff Gass wrote: > > 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 So they have active cancellation? I stand corrected. I tend to translate 'Bose' into 'scam'. trent -- "This user has a pattern of behaviour in the usenet group chi.forsale that borders on abusive."
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