{"id":439,"date":"2005-07-26T17:45:23","date_gmt":"2005-07-26T07:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=439"},"modified":"2013-10-04T09:30:17","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T23:30:17","slug":"noise-cancelling-headphones-a-no-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/26\/noise-cancelling-headphones-a-no-no\/","title":{"rendered":"noise cancelling headphones a no-no"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, this review<\/a> over at ZDnet<\/a> seems to say that the Bose Quiet Comfort 2 Acoustic Noice Cancelling headphones<\/a> have leather. The suck. Well, that strikes them off my list.<\/p>\n

In case you didn’t know, I don’t do the leather thing.<\/p>\n

There’s also a disturbing review over at Amazon<\/a> from a guy who seems to know what he’s talking about (Grado<\/a> make great ‘phones – mine are supurb).<\/p>\n

So, the sound quality may not be all that great (although people rave about the noise reduction – and that’s worth something, but maybe for $299USD I’d expect something that at least matches my $150AUD Grado ‘phones).<\/p>\n

So, anyone got ideas for something decent for travelling with (planes) that doesn’t involve a dead cow?<\/p>\n

Maybe in-ear earphones is what i’m looking for….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, this review over at ZDnet seems to say that the Bose Quiet Comfort 2 Acoustic Noice Cancelling headphones have leather. The suck. Well, that strikes them off my list. In case you didn’t know, I don’t do the leather … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-life-the-universe-and-everything","category-work-et-al"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-75","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":232,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/08\/new-headphones\/","url_meta":{"origin":439,"position":0},"title":"new headphones","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2004-05-08","format":false,"excerpt":"Today (well, *technically* yesterday, 'cause it's 2:30am on sat now) my new headphones arrived in at work. 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