Tune Out the World with These Headphones

The iPod is now ubiquitous on city streets everywhere in the world, and many people carry their iPods with them everywhere they go. So it’s surprising that a majority of iPod users are still stuck with the included white earbuds. The audio quality is mediocre, and unless one is in a perfectly quiet environment, the iPod’s volume bar has to be cranked up well above the halfway mark to have a satisfying listening experience. With all the news headlines today that admonish listening to high-volume music through headphones because of its link to deafness, it’s now become a health hazard as well.

The solution to all this madness is an investment in a quality pair of noise-canceling headphones. And one shouldn’t look any further than the widely popular Audio-Technica ATH-ANC7 QuietPoint Headphones. With one AAA battery and a flick of a switch, these headphones will block out nearly all background noise. The screeching of a subway’s brakes, the droning of an airplane’s jet engines, or the whirring of an electric fan is removed by the headphones’ ability to cut out constant, undesirable frequencies in the environment. Now listening to an iPod on a subway with the volume below the halfway mark is possible.

After using the Audio-Technica QuietPoint headphones for a while, it’s hard to imagine what life was like without them.

This entry was posted by Nick on Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 at 4:24 pm