"A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence." - Leopold Stokowski
"Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation...tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation." - Jean Arp
The headphones themselves seem a bit too humble to boast, so we tend to overlook their almost magical ability to deliver on a paradox: to give you both sound and silence. Headphones are both a sanctuary where we draw close to the sacred music of our soul, and refuge away from the chaotic din of modern life.
Traditional sealed headphones have long been delivering on this promise, and have gotten better and better at delivering great sound over the last few decades, but they haven't really gotten much better at delivering great silence. Noise cancelling headphones attempt to remedy that, and largely succeed ... largely, but not completely.
Hold on, I'm getting ahead of myself here, let's start at the beginning ...
Providing Silence with Headphones
let's get on with the testing ---->
How To's
A Review of Five of the Best Noise Cancelling Headphones: Sennheiser PXC 450, Bose QuietComfort 15, Sony MDR-NC500D, Monster Beats by Dr. Dre, and Denon AH-NC732K.
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