What's Active Noise Canceling Headphone? Is it a important tech to Headphone?

[cdd311]

I know little about the Active Noise Canceling Headphone, the price of the Active Noise Canceling Headphone is high. Is it a important technica to Headphone? 

 

[PleasantSounds]

The importance of noise cancelling is not really related to further boosting sound quality. All it is about is reduction of the ambient noise – typically in very noisy environments like airplane or train. So it does improve (or partly restore) the sound quality, but only when it is adversely affected by external environment in the first place.
It is important technology because it somewhat increases the size of headphone market – for example my wife doesn’t listen to music but she uses NC headphones just to reduce the noise.
The price vs normal headphones is higher because of microphones and electronics involved in noise cancelling, which normal headphones don’t have.

 

[cel4145]

The importance of noise cancelling is not really related to further boosting sound quality. All it is about is reduction of the ambient noise – typically in very noisy environments like airplane or train. So it does improve (or partly restore) the sound quality, but only when it is adversely affected by external environment in the first place.
It is important technology because it somewhat increases the size of headphone market – for example my wife doesn’t listen to music but she uses NC headphones just to reduce the noise.
The price vs normal headphones is higher because of microphones and electronics involved in noise cancelling, which normal headphones don’t have.

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And so unless you need ANC, best bang for your buck will come from non ANC headphones.

 

[cdd311]

Thanks