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June 26, 2005
Worth Their Weight In Silence
After a few phone conversations with Crutchfield, they shipped the Bose headphones (from Virginia, by the way) which Stuart & I had ordered on Monday, June 20th. They arrived at Guru Labs offices on Thursday. However, as I was in Austin, Texas at the time, I did not pick up my pair until Friday evening on the way home from the airport.
I left on my next trip, to Cincinnati, Ohio, the following Sunday, June 26th. It was a direct flight and I was upgraded to "First Class" (it's domestic so it's really Business Class, but we do not need to go into that now). This is the first time I have used them "on the road" and I must say that the experience was magnificent.
Both Bryan & Dax have had the Bose Quiet Comfort 2 headphones for nearly two years now. I have had the opportunity to "thy them out" on occasion, in the office. I already knew that I liked the sound, fit and comfort of them. I was also already well aware of the limitations of the noise canceling capabilities. For example, voices come through just fine and many times music will to (though greatly flattened out, I think). They work best at filtering out both white noise and gray noise.
Shortly after takeoff this afternoon, I slipped my new headphones on, plugged the airplane adapter into the on-board sound system, and flipped the switch. A moment later, the noise canceling kicked in. The difference, though noticeable, did not seem too large. As I wanted to watch the in-flight movie, I decided that even the small, perceived difference was still a good improvement.
About an hour later, I was unable to hear what one of the stewardesses was asking me, so I lifted the one side of the headphones off of my right ear and could not believe the difference. It seemed as though the noise of the jet engines rushed in to pound on my eardrum. The difference was nearly deafening. At that moment, I thought to myself, "This is what I had been subjecting my ears to all these years of traveling, and I didn't even realize it was that bad, until now. I will never travel without my Bose Quiet Comfort 2 headphones, again."
They truly are worth every penny I paid.
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Lamont R. Peterson
Posted by lamontp at June 26, 2005 9:33 PM