[SECC] CVS Noise Canceling Earphones

[AE4Y]

On the drive home this afternoon, I passed a CVS and remembering your 
e-mail, I pulled in.  They had one pair left, so I plopped down my $15.

When I got home and started using them, I wasn't sure that they were 
really doing anything in terms of cancelling noise.

But then . . . .

I disconnected them from the radio and was in the process of cutting 
them on and off to determine if noise was being cancelled when I heard 
an airplane passing overhead.  When I cut the headphones on, the sound 
of the airplane completely disappeared.  I cut them off and the plane 
noise was back!  Amazing.

I think I'll keep them.

Thanks for the tip.

Kent, AE4Y



Hal Kennedy wrote:
> There has been a fair amount of chatter on the PVRC reflector the past few
> days regarding some nice earphones - I thought I would pass along the info.
> 
> CVS stores have noise canceling earphones for $15.  Quite a few PVRCers have
> bought them and claimed they sounded about as good as their Heil Prosets.  I
> picked one up here in Woodstock yesterday - there were eight on the shelf -
> so finding these things seems easy enough.