Comments on: Sony’s Digital Noise Cancelling Earbuds finally arrive in the US http://en.akihabaranews.com/28519/headphones/the-planet%e2%80%99s-first-digital-noise-cancelling-earbuds-come-from-sony?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-planet%25e2%2580%2599s-first-digital-noise-cancelling-earbuds-come-from-sony Live from Japan ! Wed, 22 May 2013 09:20:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Niels http://en.akihabaranews.com/28519/headphones/the-planet%e2%80%99s-first-digital-noise-cancelling-earbuds-come-from-sony#comment-56848 Niels Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:14:27 +0000 http://www.akihabaranews.com/?p=28519#comment-56848 Hmm, I bought these Earbuds when they came out.
It’s a nice set, however, some annoying setbacks for me:

- Battery life no where NEAR 20hrs. More like 10. Had to change them during a flight from Osaka–>Tokyo–>Amsterdam with a 1 hour stop in Tokyo. (Total flight time, 14hrs).

- It does not have a sound pass-through function, so, battery empty == no more noise from the buds. The older analogue Sony ones, had audio pass-through so you could still enjoy sound without NC.

- No manual setting on NC modes.

- Does NOT filter 98.4% of ALL noise, just the monotonous sounds like trains and engines so you hear the JAL stewardess saying Sumimassen more clearly through your ear buds then ever.

- All audio is digitised and then put through to your ears. Never mind recording in Lossless to our Personal Audio Device any more, the throughput sounds like 320k mp3.

- Using an equaliser on your PAD ruins the throughput sound.

- Your PAD had better have a pretty high volume output to get a decent volume dumped in your ear canal without having to have the NC300D at full volume.

Is this a bad set of kit? No, it’s not.
Does it do everything they say it does? No it doesn’t.

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