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Article #9326Re: Best Buy Treated Me Like a Thief
From: the notorious t-e-d
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 20:27
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 20:27
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trent wrote: > 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 'No highs, no lows, must be bose' Ted Novak TRA#5512 IEAS#75
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X-Google-Thread: 107518,819a8a372102d669 X-Google-Thread: 10e835,a8473bea7e4a41f8 X-Google-Thread: f765b,a8473bea7e4a41f8 X-Google-Attributes: gid107518,gid10e835,gidf765b,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news4.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xt-sjc-03!sn-xt-sjc-06!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: the notorious t-e-d <tdstr@foadspammer.com> Newsgroups: misc.consumers,chi.general,mn.general Subject: Re: Best Buy Treated Me Like a Thief Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 14:27:00 -0600 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <11s090ejoeh3d65@corp.supernews.com> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <RZguf.281$WY5.265@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net> <43b9b895$0$828$8046368a@newsreader.iphouse.net> <fi3lr1po2eqfesohsgsem3m9ckj8bom3vp@4ax.com> <43bb1aa0$0$813$8046368a@newsreader.iphouse.net> <dpjlr3$su@u1.netgate.net> <43bd9d83$0$815$8046368a@newsreader.iphouse.net> <slrndrr7n0.t5r.glg@ftupet.ftupet.com> <Tvkvf.3596$Hl6.3390@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net> <LuidnXCpjpjUZyDenZ2dnUVZ_t2dnZ2d@speakeasy.net> <43BE62F9.1508@trentland.com> <stWdnaVoGdn1wiLenZ2dnUVZ_s6dnZ2d@speakeasy.net> <slrnds03u7.bt0.glg@ftupet.ftupet.com> <43C01BD9.BBD@trentland.com> In-Reply-To: <43C01BD9.BBD@trentland.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 46