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Top Noise Blocking Headphones
A selection of great headphones for isolated listening, including in-ear, noise cancelling, and sealed types.

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Going somewhere? Here's what you'll need to bring your music along for the ride.

Workstation & Computer Listening
Headphone recommendations and our advice on getting the best audio possible from your computer.

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Full size headphones are large and sit around the ear. Many of the world's best headphones are full size type.

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Closed headphones are comfortable and isolate you from outside noise; read our top choices.

Noise Cancelling
Travelers will enjoy blessed relief from noise with these fine headphones; see our selection of the best noise cancelling headphones.

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Headphones: Noise Cancelling

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Noise cancelling headphones insulate from environmental / ambient noise using 'active' battery-powered electronics

Noise cancelling [NC] headphones employ miniaturized built-in microphones within the earpieces to sense the environmental ambient noise around the headphones via an 'active' (battery powered) electronic circuit. In short, noise-canceling circuitry amplifies and inverts the environmental ambient noise signals, then reverse-adds it back into the music signal to 'cancel' the acoustic noise pressure present at the earpiece drivers. HeadRoom offers a few noise-cancelling headphones, some at a great value including models from Audio Technica, Polk, AKG, Phiaton, and Sennheiser. 

Noise cancelling headphones are principally designed to block airline and/or train cabin noise during travel and typically will isolate better than a basic closed headphone in these specific situations, but not as well as in ear headphones for listeners seeking maximum noise-blocking ability.

For more information about 'active' noise cancelling headphones see our HeadRoom noise cancelling selection guide.

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Phiaton PS 300 NC
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$199.00
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Phiaton PS 300 NC

Stylin' noise-canceling for planes, trains and automobiles with great sound quality. Also rocks buses and sidecars too.

Polk UltraFocus 6000 NC
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$149.95
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Polk UltraFocus 6000 NC

Active noise-canceling in-ear headphones create a traveling coccoon of musical refuge

Audio Technica ATH-ANC7B
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$159.95
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Audio Technica ATH-ANC7B

Top-shelf affordable noise canceling with active 'QuietPoint' circuitry that neutralizes ambient noise. Voted 'Best of 2011' by Sound+Vision!

Phiaton PS 210 BTNC
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$129.00
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Phiaton PS 210 BTNC

Quite possibly the best sounding Bluetooth wireless product on planet earth!