Noise cancelling headphones under £100?

Noise cancelling headphones under £100?

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lufbramatt

Original Poster:

5,318 posts

133 months

Saturday 19th April 2014
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Flying to the states in may, would like to treat myself to a pair of noise cancelling headphones for the journey.

Would appear that what I want is a pair of Goldring NS1000's, but they seem to have been discontinued. Any other good alternatives for under £100? Really can't justify the cost of a pair of Bose!

Have spent a while browsing superfit/amazon/ebay and am none the wiser.

Must be over-ear types, can't stand in-ear headphones.

Cheers

Matt

grumbledoak

31,499 posts

232 months

Saturday 19th April 2014
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Not sure Bose are all that, performance wise. My "NoiseGard" Sennheisers were around £80 a few years back, not sure of the model number offhand.

ETA- Something like this plus the airplane socket adaptor:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sennheiser-Closed-Back-Hea...

conkerman

3,298 posts

134 months

Saturday 19th April 2014
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Goldring NS1000.

Work well, sound quality is tolerable.

AW10

4,421 posts

248 months

Sunday 20th April 2014
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grumbledoak said:
Not sure Bose are all that, performance wise. My "NoiseGard" Sennheisers were around £80 a few years back, not sure of the model number offhand.

ETA- Something like this plus the airplane socket adaptor:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sennheiser-Closed-Back-Hea...
Have pair of those as well - they seem like good value for the money and I'm happy with them. Over the ear will always be quieter even without power as they act as ear defenders as well as having noise cancelling electronics but they can get quite warm.

lufbramatt

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5,318 posts

133 months

Sunday 20th April 2014
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After a lot of looking I ordered a pair of Blaupunkt 112 noise cancelling headphones for £60 on a half price offer direct from Blaupunkt UK. I've always liked their headunits (got a Hamburg in the Passat) and the 'phones have had some good reviews so took a punt.

Gatecrasher

29 posts

195 months

Monday 21st April 2014
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I would highly recommend Shure. I've got a pair of SE535s which are brilliant. I've not found a better pair of in ear headphones and from listening to the lower models the difference is not as great as you would imagine. Even their bottom of the range are very good but they start at around £80.

rich85uk

3,312 posts

178 months

Monday 21st April 2014
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although £4 over budget and strictly they aren't noise cancelling but these are a cracking set of studio headphones and do a pretty good job of leaking/letting in any sound:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Audio-Technica-ATH-M50-Mon...