Czilla9000
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Which Airline, in your experience heads out the best free headphones. I no they all suck...but which is the best regardless?
Originally posted by lini Just by the way: I've read the other day, that Sennheiser will be coming out with a new headphone especially for airplane travellers - the PX 250, which is a foldable supra-aural phone just like its smaller new brother PX 200, but additionally equipped with noice cancelling electronics. One of the bigger german mags - I think it was Audio - will publish a test of both in the next issue... Greetings from Munich! Manfred / lini |
Originally posted by andrzejpw Um, yeah. Sennheiser's company airline. Seriously, are you being serious? |
Regarding Sennheiser airplane phones |
Originally posted by Czilla9000 Which Airline, in your experience heads out the best free headphones. I no they all suck...but which is the best regardless? |
Well, let's see. I fly both United and American (gold on both) a fair amount. I prefer United because American not only charges for headphones, but they actually sometimes have the gall to try and call it an "entertainment charge", meaning you're supposed to pay even if you use your own phones. The phones on United flights are pretty good, especially if you're into second-hand earwax collection. Neither one holds a candle to Air China, though (just flew them last weekend). Their phones are better than anything you're gonna find anywhere else, because of their design (a stroke of pure genius), which entirely eliminates the AEC/EAC process, the cause of pretty much ALL sound imperfections. Of course, I'm refering to the destructive Acoustic to Electrical and Electrical to Acoustic Conversions that lesser equipment like the studio mastering process, SACD/CD/LP players, headphone amps, and electrostatic/dynamic headphones perform. Strangely, despite the theoretical perfection of Air China's brilliant Direct to Ear Acoustic Function(tm) technology, I ended up preferring the imperfect, mangled, compressed, electronically converted sound of my Archos multimedia jukebox played through my impure, electrically-tainted Ety 4p's... I just don't get it. |
Originally posted by Squalish Could you explain more on this? As it is, I can't tell whether it is a veiled cup-and-string-audio joke or a serious technology. |