Keeping Your Ears Healthy While Traveling

The noise on airplane flights these days can be deafening from the engine whine to the baby crying. A way to maintain Healthy Hearing while traveling on airlines, trains or buses is to use noise canceling headphones. They can range from $21.00 to over $350.00 based on noise canceling quality, styles and materials used. Here are some of the on ear models and price ranges that are featured in depth at product reviews – noise canceling headphones that you might want to consider. Bose QuietComfort 3

You can spend a fortune ($250.00 – $350.00) on superior models that cancel out even greater than 95% of noise like:

Monster Beats by Dr. Dre
Sony MDR-NC500D
Bose QuietComfort 3

But there are several units on the market that can eliminate 85%-95% of the noise for around $75-$150.00 including the:

JVC HA-NC250
Sony MDR-NC60
Audio-Technica ATH-ANC7 QuietPoint

And finally there are those lesser priced headphones that can cancel about 60%-85% of ambient noise ranging from $21.00 – $35.00 like:

JVC HA-NC100
Philips HN110 Headphone
Creative HN-605

For the serious or full-time traveler spending $300 for headphones could be seen as a requirement and not a luxury. A full-time traveler can justify the pricing for the higher end models, but for my money even though I travel full-time, the mid-price range is an excellent compromise because I have already lost one expensive pair and don’t want to do that again. The JVC HA-NC250 model is my preference because the noise canceling quality is rated superior just below the Bose QuietComfort 3 but the pricing is mid-range. Check this model out on the Internet as you might be able to find them for somewhere between $78.00 and $100.00.