How good are they in cancelling Noise? I don't expect to cancel the noise completely, but does it cancel out noise of people talking next to you?
1951409
I have owned Bose which were a little better at cancelling noise but not near as good on the sound reproduction side. I'de rate the Bose an 8 and the PSBs a 7. I do not hear much once I put them on.
471639
They do not do much noise canceling. I would prefer an AKG headphone. They are very faithful to the music. They need a good amp or good headphone section, though.
242376
They don't completely cancel out all the noise. If you want a cheap option, it's good. But if you want better noise cancellation, I'd go with a higher end headphone. I have to turn noise cancelling on plus play music for it to drown out any sounds around me.
635126
You bet. The noise cancelling feature works all by itself, without plugging it into anything. It certainly does not drown everything out but it makes a difference!
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.
1429477
When music is playing at reasonable volume, they're pretty good at blocking background noise, but not perfect. If you're just wearing them over your ears without input, the noise cancellation is more of a soft noise muffling than anything else. I wouldn't call them "noise-cancelling" so much as "reduces extraneous background noise so you can focus on what's playing".
1487491
Depends on how loud the person is. They are pretty good with blocking sound. I have to yell for my son to hear me if he's wearing them. Normal talk is pretty hard to hear.
2094614
They can hear everything you say without any of the background noise. You can hear pretty good too..you just have to adjust your volume with some callers.
568148
No headphones truly cancel out people talking, if you have a good sense of hearing. But, when I have my mp3 player going, I can't hear what my wife is trying to say to me - at all!
2263804
I wouldn't say it's true noise cancelling. For example, I have the headphones on right now and I'm at my office. I have the volume fairly low, and I can still hear everyone around me talking. Then again, I have freakishly good hearing. If I turn the volume up though (a good amount), but not all the way up that it's deafening, then yes, the noise drowns out and I can see people's mouths moving but not hear anything. I have tried my friend's headphones that are Noise Cancelling (the expensive ones that start with the letter "B" and end in "E") and those are true noise cancelling. Meaning, even with the volume all the way down, I can't hear anything. But in my opinion, these headphones are perfect... I couldn't picture running with noise cancelling headphones and not hear an oncoming car for example. I like that when I don't want to hear anything, I simply turn the volume up 2 notches, and if I want to make things out enough that I'm aware of my surroundings, I simply turn it down a few notches. Overall, these headphones have been one of the best purchases I've made.
1168062
It blocks a fair amount, yes...more than my earbuds did. But I have never had a "noise-cancelling" headset, so I don't know how it would compare.
1037953
There is no noise canceling with this one, but the way the ear cup was made was to minimize the sorrounding noise, but not to the point that you could no longer hear the traffic noise around you, such as automobile horn which is good for safety. But for someone is talking sitting next to you, you really can't hear them at all. Sound canceling or Noise canceling have some unfavorable effect on music sound they said, so i rather don't have them on my headphones.
2100088
They will not "silence" voices. You can still carry on conversations with someone close to you. Wearing them though it would be very easy to tune the world out. Hope that helps.
367495
They don't CANCEL noise. That constitutes destructive interference, and requires a circuit to 'hear' the sound and duplicate it in reverse to 'cancel out' the sound. These ISOLATE. Quite well.
610923
Hi Jobin - You know, I really don't use them much, so I really can't comment. I went back and see if they work, and they do, and there doesnt seem too much background noise. Hope that helps.
694625
They'll block out a lot of noise, however if you're in an abnormally loud vehicle or other situation where there's a consistent droning noise you may want to look for active noise canceling headphones. If the sound you're trying to filter out is not loud and consistent active noise canceling will be useless. These headphones do _not_ feature active noise canceling but are closed back and will block out a lot of sound, such as people talking, TV in the room etc.
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The headphones have noise cancellation, but all that does is block out outside/ambient sound. So while they prevent outside noise from getting in, they don't stop noise from getting out. From my experience though, even when turned up loudly, it was not able to be heard by others.