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The Best Noise Cancellation for Both Ears
Mon Jul 3, 2006 - 6:09 PM EDT - By Harv Laser
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Overview > Folding Conclusion
Folding theBoom Quiets fold and unfold in a number of ways:
Performance
Sitting here in Summer's heat with a two foot box fan blowing on me just feet away, I put on the Quiets, flipped the switch, and the loud fan's roar hushed to a faint whisper. When using them purely for noise reduction, you don't get total silence. They're not ear plugs. You can still hear the phone or doorbell ring. Remember, the Quiets do triple duty: they tremendously reduce low frequency, irritating ambient noise, they let you speak on your phone in a whisper and be clearly heard in a noisy place, and they're very high quality stereo headphones for audio pleasure.
Plug in the appropriate combo of cable and jack and you have full range high quality stereo headphones for music or any kind of audio reproduction, from virtually any sound source you can think of. The Quiets deliver beautiful high fidelity dynamics, especially those satisfyingly thunderous, low bass fundamentals, although I think my Sony V6s have slightly crisper highs, but just fiddle with your sound source's tone controls or equalizer and I think you'll agree the Quiets are VERY acceptable as your primary headphones.
Plug in theBoom mic and you have the same noise canceling bliss of the other theBoom models, whether you use them with your Treo, or jack them into your laptop to make IP calls with a service like Skype, but unlike the other theBoom models, you'll hear your caller in the middle of your head in mono coming from both earcups' speakers. VOIP with a laptop requires a dual jack PC cable, sold separately. Complaints? Not many
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