Noise Reducing Headphones For Kids

One man's noise is another man's music, but no matter what your taste, ambient noise is the enemy. Luckily, there's a piece of audio equipment designed especially to maximize your listening experience, keeping ambient noise out without sacrificing your music's sound quality.

Given how frequently iPods and other portable media players are used in noisy environments, headphones that reduce some degree of outside noise have become popular accessories. Although there are several approaches to such noise reduction, today I take a look at nine full-size, noise-canceling headphones.

When you hear "noise-canceling headphones," you probably think big, bulky, over-the-ear cans. Bose is seriously challenging that image with its new QuietComfort 20 headphones - or should I say earbuds - which incorporate active noise-canceling tech into an extremely compact design. They sound pretty good, too.

A Comparative Review of High-End Noise Canceling Headphones What's All the Noise About? A typical question from someone wanting a headphone to shut out environmental noise goes something like this: "I want to get rid of the noise around me, so I need noise canceling headphones, right?" No, not necessarily.