THEBILNS

Sun 17 Jun
2007

NOISE CANCELING

You can’t seem to, because for some reason, today, you’re hearing all the back noise, the other conversations, the air conditioning fan, and you can’t seem to barrel down.

I’ve been looking for a decent set of noise canceling headphones for some time now. But as is always the case when purchasing most things of quality, you pay for it. For a while I looked at the Bose Quiet Comfort 3, even tried them out. Simply stunning, they were light on the head, and the sound reproduction was incredible … but @ 500 bones+ with taxes (at least, here in Canada) … well, that just hurts.

No, there had to be a better solution. There had to be a set that would be as close as the Bose QC3’s in sound reproduction, but just not that pricey.

So you turn to your trusted Sennheiser. You have several headphones from them. Love them so much, one pair sits at your desk at work, because the music there has to be just right. No compromises for this puppy.

Then you come across the Sennheiser PCX-250. The reviews you read are exactly what you want to hear out of a set of headphones with noise canceling abilities. You look it up some more and find that this will go nicely with your mobile computing, because the set are small and lightweight, easy to carry around.

Sennheiser PCS-250

You go to the local HiFi store to check them out. You put them on, attach them to your iPod Nano. You look for track that will prove the headphones worth. You stay away from hard rock, because for some reason you want to test old school. You find Tribe, but what song?

Headphones like this should make it easy to groove. You find Electric Relaxation, you hit play … and then you hear the tune play with such clarity, with virtually no ambient noise, you close your eyes and bob your head to the beat.

A couple of hours later you’re in the local coffee shop grooving and developing to some quality sounds.

Sennheiser PCX-250 Noise Canceling Headphones, you decide, will be highly recommended by you if anyone should ask.

PS – they really are a great set, but I’d give them 4/5. The NoiseGard filter house two AAA batteries, so they’ll need replacing, but that’s not as much of a concern as how it imposes on the cable itself. It can get a bit unwieldy, but I’ve sussed out how to deal with it by keeping it clipped to the vinyl case when I use them to listen.

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