jrfuda
Active Member
Having recently made several long trips by plane, I was looking for some noise reducing/canceling headphones to use with the airline movies and/or my portable DVD player.
I did lots of checking around, and found that most people weren't very happy with low-priced active noise canceling headphones, and even many of the expensive ones needed some improvement.
After lot's of searching I found Koss "The Plug" headphones. They're just regular old ear buds with no active noise canceling circuitry. What makes the work great, though, is that instead of a foam covered hard ear bud, they use actual ear plugs (like you'd use at a rifle range or a noisy factory) to hold them in your ear. This results in most outside sound being blocked and you hearing mostly just the music coming through the phones. The sounds from the phones are great as well. And the best thing is that they cost only $12.95, much better than paying a couple hundred for some Bose or a little over $100 for Sonys. I used them on my 18 hour flight back to Korea from the US and they worked great, in fact I left them in even when I wasn't listening to anything because they so effectively blocked out outside sounds (engines roaring, children screaming, old man snoring,etc.. which I heard when I wasn't wearing them) They come with 4 different size/styled pairs of plugs and you can modify other off the shelf earplugs to be used with them (by drilling a 1/8" hole through the middle of the earplugs).
I did lots of checking around, and found that most people weren't very happy with low-priced active noise canceling headphones, and even many of the expensive ones needed some improvement.
After lot's of searching I found Koss "The Plug" headphones. They're just regular old ear buds with no active noise canceling circuitry. What makes the work great, though, is that instead of a foam covered hard ear bud, they use actual ear plugs (like you'd use at a rifle range or a noisy factory) to hold them in your ear. This results in most outside sound being blocked and you hearing mostly just the music coming through the phones. The sounds from the phones are great as well. And the best thing is that they cost only $12.95, much better than paying a couple hundred for some Bose or a little over $100 for Sonys. I used them on my 18 hour flight back to Korea from the US and they worked great, in fact I left them in even when I wasn't listening to anything because they so effectively blocked out outside sounds (engines roaring, children screaming, old man snoring,etc.. which I heard when I wasn't wearing them) They come with 4 different size/styled pairs of plugs and you can modify other off the shelf earplugs to be used with them (by drilling a 1/8" hole through the middle of the earplugs).
