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Part 4: A Review of Four Compact Sealed Headphones: The Sennheiser HD 228.

On the next page after this one, I'm going to tell you what an incredibly great job Sennheiser has done on a pair of headphones. On this page ... not so much. [caption id="" align="alignrigh...

Part 5: A Review of Four Compact Sealed Headphones: The Sennheiser PX 200-II.

Wow ... just wow.  I don't think I've ever heard sealed headphones this small sound this good. Nor can I recall ever holding a headphone this small that has felt as sturdy and well built, or that l...

Part 6: A Review of Four Compact Sealed Headphones: Conclusions.

It's the worst case scenario: let's make a headphone that's really small and sealed (an acoustic nightmare), and  that folds up for easy packing (a mechanical nightmare).  What amazed us was how ve...

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.

"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...

Part 3: Noise Cancelling Headphone Review - The Sennheiser PXC 450

I'm a big fan of Sennheiser, and this is a headphone I really wanted to like. Unfortunately, it didn't quite turn out that way. One downside of noise cancelling headphones is that they run on a...

Part 2: A Noise Cancelling Headphone Review – How Well They Cancelled Noise.

While evaluating sound quality is largely a subjective task with measurements playing a supporting roll, determining how much isolation headphones provide can be done almost exclusively through mea...