I went with two sets of noise cancelling headsets:<\/p>\n
1) Coby CY-191 headset – $30 or so at Frys.
\n 2) Philips HN060 earbuds – $60 or so at Frys.<\/p>\n
Given the long flights through Japan and all, it seemed like a good idea.<\/p>\n
Throughout the flights, I used both the cheap foam things you can get for pennies at any hardware store and<\/strong> the noise cancelling headsets.<\/p>\n Bottom line: I used the Coby set. They filter the high frequencies and shut out the rumble. I took the Philips set back. They seemed to have no<\/strong> effect! Very odd. Perhaps they were broken out-of-box. Tried multiple batteries and all the usual tricks to get them to work. No luck.<\/p>\n The Coby set’s plastic over-the-head-band broke in the car within a week or two of returning. I had been using them while driving. Nice. Removes a lot of road rumble and hissing. Leaves audio and horns to be more easily heard. Old car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I went with two sets of noise cancelling headsets: 1) Coby CY-191 headset – $30 or so at Frys. 2) Philips HN060 earbuds – $60 or so at Frys. Given the long flights through Japan …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}