If silence is golden, then noise cancelation is platinum.
I recently picked up a pair of Bose QuietComfort 2 Acoustic Noise Cancelation Headphones. One of the problems I've had lately in airplane travel is that I've had to resort to turning the volume all the way up to drown out the background noise of the airplane engine. These headphones may make the drone of the engine a thing of the past for me.
I've actually been looking for a good pair of noise cancelation headphones for a while now, as I've noticed that in the gym the crappy music can often overpower the melodies within my shuffle. I went to the Apple store today to see if they had any available to test drive, but all they had on display were the Bose Triport headphones. Seeing how comfortable the Triports were, I had to give the QuietComfort 2 a try, and I've been impressed with how comfortable the QuietComfort 2 is. Both the Triport and the QuietComfort 2 are over-the-ear headphones ,which I've never had before, but am rather pleased with.
In terms of noise cancelation, I used the QuietComfort 2 while running the washing machine and dryer, and had those noises effectively filtered out. I say effectively because if there isn't a sound playing and you actively sought the sound out, you could probably pick it out of the background. But, as my sister says, it's like looking for Waldo while someone is pointing at him. Using the QuietComfort 2 to drown out conversations works mediocrely well, depending on the volume of the conversation as well as the number of conversations -- for instance, I can see this working well in a crowded cafe but not well to drown out someone talking to you.
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