Sorry about not being able to do my Travel Tech Thursday. Was just too busy yesterday.
After 15 years or so of marriage I still like hanging with my wife. One of the things that attracted me to her other than her hot body was her contagious laughter. I love going to a movie with my wife and hearing her laugh while the popcorn falls all over the floor. Due to having 4 kids and just busyness we don’t get to watch many movies together but we recently went to see Get Smart. My wife laughed her head off. I enjoyed her laughing as much I enjoyed Steve Carell doing Agent 86. I remember watching it as a kid and being fascinated with the cone of silence. One of the reasons was that growing up, our family of 4 lived in a one-bedroom apartment in the middle of a big apartment complex in NYC. The other thing about our apartment building is that it was on the path for La Guardia Airport, so on cloudy days airplanes would fly over my building. It was so loud you could hear the windows rattle. Some days I wished for a cone of silence.
Today I’m reviewing the Bose Quiet Comfort 2 Acoustic Noise Cancelling headphones. Three years ago I purchased these headphones for travel. If you have seen the advertisements, they promise to give you the cone of silence. Honestly, I got them because everyone else in first class had them and I looked like a dork wearing the headphones provided by United. They have these cool cases and look really substantial. I would see the advertisements in the sky mall and United Hemisphere magazine, so when I had a coupon for Crutchfields I got myself a pair. My wife says I’m easily susceptible to marketing for luxury items – must be cause I’m Korean. But I have to say that I love these Bose Headsets. It is not like the silence cone where you don’t hear anything at all, but they reduce ambient noise really well. Usually high-pitched whining noises such as jet engine are not only blocked out but they also reproduce sound incredibly from your ipod/iphone. So with the headphones in noise reduction mode and music playing, it is virtually isolated from outside noise. There are reports that constant annoying ambient noise will cause fatigue. Until I wore these I did not realize this, but after long trips I could tell the difference. I really recommend these if you travel or just want a silence cone where you work or at home. Furthermore, I recommend Bose; I broke them and called Bose and without question they replaced them and even paid shipping. Unfortunately, I don’t use these headphones any more because they were too bulky for traveling. I try to travel as light as possible. I currently use the Shure in-ear headphones that I will be reviewing next week.
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