Do these offer good passive noise cancellation and how bad is the noise leakage?
883326
Sound Quality is good but the earcups are soft enough to give some degree of passive noise reduction for one to listen to a track as big speakers boom at a party. However in time the headset causes physical pain on your ears. Clearly not designed for long time usage. Considering selling mine as soon as I can test one that mirrors the quality of Bose.
883327
They're not officially noise cancelling but the sound is so rich, full bodied and clean that you cannot hear much of anything else. Leakage is the same. I love these headphones. I've seen pioneer for so many years and wanted to our case something other than beats. I'm so glad I did. I really love them.
883328
The noise cancellation is great and the leakage is very minimum. Someone will have to come direct and yell in order to get your attention. however, the great cancellation is also supported by the protection layer on the ear muffs which needs to be dry at ALL times. use dry rag to take off slight moister including (sweat) ever so often because it will peel off the protection.Please do dot worry about sound, it is 100% great. I bought one..... AND I LOVE IT!!!!
580048
These are not *ACTIVE* noise cancelling headphones, but they do a pretty good job of blocking out ambient noise as long as you don't rest your head against the wall of the plane (window seat). [In that case the direct physical sound conduction is noticeable]. I use them on airplanes and I can run my audio volume at half and listen quite comfortably. By comparison, my ear buds require nearly full-blast volume on a plane and the audio still isn't clear.
631454
Sound leakage is minimal, but present. Depends where you are. In my quiet living room, if I have them playing loudly and put them down on a table, I can hear it from a few feet away. But that's at like, way too loud for a quiet room levels. Not world-class. But these aren't quite world-class headphones. If I turn it down to a level you'd expect to be listening in a quiet room, you can't hear any sound leakage at all
162011
Never used them on a plane, but even though they are 'closed-back', they are not designed for noise cancellation. Nor will they completely prevent audio from being leaked to others around you at higher volumes. Although....one could humorously argue that the clarity of the high frequency range response may very well drown out high pitched engine noise. Honestly, for noise cancellation, you probably want any decent set of isolation headphones. These ones are solely designed for clarity and reference.Good Luck!
181638
They are not on a Bose level for noise cancellation. I wouldn't buy them to to cancel out traveling noise. For home use, I find them more than adequate. If my kid is YELLING, then OK, I can hear him. My wife, however, usually has to throw something at me if she's trying to get my attention. For home use, I like these a lot.
2107757
They do cancel out external noise but in a passive way, this means that the earbuds and sound together provide isolation from exterior noise, they are however, not active, this means that there is no microprocessor that "listens" to exterior noise and then creates white noise to cancel it out. Regarding the microphone i cant be sure because i have not opened it up so im not sure if it contains an active noise cancelation system, but i can tell the call quality is great.
2178958
Noise cancelling, which actively cancels out incoming sounds, is not found on this headset. Noise isolating, which passively blocks incoming sounds, is what this set of headphone does, and it does a descent job. You can still hear external sound, but it's muffled. I used these on a plane recently and they worked just fine. I would give these a 7 or 8 on a scale of 1 (hear all external noise) to 10 (hear no external noise).
1021191
These are good at cancelling ambient noise such as you may experience in a train, bus or plane. People talking loudly close-by? Not so sure. The audio quality is up to scratch, I would definitely recommend them for music.
921453
The sound isolation is pretty great. Nobody can ever hear what I'm listening to, and at mid to higher volumes I can't hear anything around me. Once you turn the volume down pretty low, you can hear outside noise, but for the most part they cancel noise ridiculously well for the price. Comparable to headphones that cost twice as much and more.
999306
They are not noise-cancelling headphones but they definitely reduce external noise very well. In terms of media playback and such, these are quite possibly the best headphones that you will purchase.
251176
I have used them on public transportation. They do a pretty good job of keeping room-level noise out (e.g. nearby conversations), but you'll hear louder noises like a train running through tunnels, etc. I think the noise suppression is fine but not remarkable.
1987142
The headphones have both passive and active noise cancellation. There is a switch on the headphones that allows you to turn the active noise cancellation on. However, the size, shape, and insulation of the earcups also provide a bit of passive, unpowered noise cancellation. The passive noise cancellation is passable at best; it'll cover up any low-to-medium volume background noise, but you can still hear some louder things. Hope that helps.
626171
No, not sound cancelling. Still, they do pretty good job in isolation from ambient sound.
2010317
yes, they leak sound but it depends on 1) how loud you like somethign when noise cancelling is on 2) how loud you can turn it up with surrouinding ambient noise They defintely leak sound though
1921037
I have only used them when flying and they are very effective suppressing the noise and protecting my inner ears. They have dual type of usage for noise control...
452343
yes, they leak sound but it depends on1) how loud you like somethign when noise cancelling is on2) how loud you can turn it up with surrouinding ambient noiseThey defintely leak sound though
881367
Not noise canceling but they to me have pretty good noise isolation it all depends on what size eartip you use