How are these headphones with background noise? Do they cancel it out well, or do you have to boost the music volume?
991542
These headphones have great quality sound, & for ON the ear phones are the best to me. Any background sound is not apparent if u turn the vol up by only 1/3 - 1/2. If u will be listening most of the time with a lot of or loud background noise, then OVER the ear phones will excel for that, but they typically will cost approx $100 more. Over the ear phones are built to block loud, and/or constant background noise, but the drawback to them is your ears will get hot, so by design they both have their benefits/limitations.
991543
I would say they cancel it out well, in a normal setting they you will not hear anything other then your music, (my parents get mad because I cant hear them over the headphones) but for gym use, I boost it up maybe like 1 notch, however it also depends on the device your using, also I'm not one to listen to my music at extremely high volumes as well. Also the Sound quality is incredible.
124830
You can listen to music with active noise cancellation turned on - you can also listen to music without the noise cancellation switch on. I have used mine a lot since I bought them and they sound great with or without noise cancellation.
417048
No they will not, these headphones really are great in that aspect. The noise isolation is incredible. I have had multiple occasions where people have been trying to talk to me while I was using them, and I had no idea anyone was trying to talk to me. They told me they couldn't hear the music at all, but it was loud enough for me to not be able to tell anyone was talking to me.
964019
It all depends on the volume I set it on and if it is too noisy around me. They are pretty good in a normal scenario; that includes the noise canceling.
1720739
Hi Jennifer, You can hear music with these in 2 ways: with the noise cancelling on (which will reduce the surrounding sounds but will consume the baterry) and with the noise cancelling off (which will work just like a regular headphones)Keep in mind that the pads are not very soft so is uncomfortable to wear them for several hrs.
1745127
They are not "noise cancelling." They are simply in-ear headphones that fit pretty sungly and therefore muffle outside sound. A similar pair that I got after these that I liked much, much better and I'm still using almost a year later is this one: Philips SHE3590BL/10 In-Ear Headphones
2083831
hi , those doesn't have a cancelation noise, but the cups on your ear are to encloseru than the outside noises is despicable. I use those ones on the bus, metro and walking outside , the outside noise is not mixed with the music, the sound is great and overall comfortable. (psd. I have not use those Bose on the airplane)
88591
I think they're pretty good at noise isolation. If I'm playing music at normal volume through my phone speaker and put the headphones on without plugging them in, I can't really hear the music at all. I do this every morning when I'm leaving for work, and I'm always surprised that it works so well.
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.
10666
I think they work pretty well. I wear them at work to. And I work around machines. They don't completely block it out but enough to where it's not a big deal. If your syncing them with your phone, after your phone volume is maxed they have the own volume as well to go on top of your phones. So they get pretty loud. Not completely noise canceling but as long as your not somewhere crazy loud they'll block out the noise.
862011
Yes. They do very well for the price. I personally like them a lot. They block out sound like any others would. I mean, if you're in an area where people are being extra loud, loud machinery, etc, then naturally, it won't block that out, but it serves it's purpose. Don't go into buying these expecting them to be total noise cancelling headphones like you'd find in a firing range or something.
1491604
Hi,Try turning up the tv volume (if you can control the tv's speakers to shut them off) and lowering the volume setting on the headphones.I've found that this approach decreases background noise.Michael
935355
They fit snugly against my head and can get pretty loud, but they don't have a noise canceling feature per se (a lot of noise canceling headphones have a separate switch you press that makes "white noise" behind the music). I wear them mostly at the office and can hear my coworkers if they're being loud.
1860912
Unless you play your music at relatively high volumes (I-tunes slider maxed, and windows volume slider over 50-60) then it won't be very noticeable unless theirs absolutely nothing else going on in the room noise wise (fans, tv, talking etc.) If you plan to use them in the library or tend to be in a dead quite environment though, then I would go with any headphones that are "Closed back" such as any DJ headphones.
2067722
I'm in the same boat. I'm reviewing headphone sets primarily based on their noise cancellation abilities -- I don't even need audio. Recommendations would be welcome.
635880
They have good quality for not being on max volume, and they wont fall off that easy, but if you put the max volume (and you migth need to if you wanna lisin to all the detals, at least in my own expirience) it will leak out a little. If you got a good mic, it should not pick background noise. (if you are worried that the sound from your headphones migth catch up, you should get a shure mic instead of the headphones :p )
1878197
I would think not. As others have said they are not noise cancellation. If you can deal with that one problem then you are set because they are overall fantastic headphones for the price range.