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Acoustic Research ARNC01 reviews???
Anyone got any idea about these noise canceling headphones? They have
been out there for a few years and there are NO REVIEWS anywhere significant (I found two on some European site but they look so suspiciously short and similar that they look like they have been put there by Audiovox's PR department). Are they a quality AR product or a poxy Audiovox one? I cant believe that no one bought them because of the AAAA battery but suddenly there are lots out there on offer for just over $15. If someone at AR has put their minds to noise cancellation, they could be a technological marvel and a smash hit (so why no reviews!!) but most noise canceling products out there have multiple reviews saying that the NR function doesnt work adequately for the user. ( I had a pair of old Philips HNC50 phones which cost five bucks that had this problem and I completely cured it by replacing the pathetic silicon buds for memory foam ones sold for the Grado headphones: Then the sound was amazing and the NC suddenly started working.) Or are they just some old Philips or Sony design which they arent selling any more which Audiovox has bought and re-packaged? |
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Acoustic Research ARNC01 reviews???
So are the headphones bad? Are they good? I dunno. But the "AR" logo on them is purely cosmetic. They could well be great, they could well be junk. Sounds like they are just a me-too product as I implied in my OP (ALL these designs seem to have the same characteristic reviews: Works OK, no real bass but no real noise cancellation), bought by Audiovox to reformat in a smaller package. I already have those Philips ones lying around somewhere and only really wanted these for when I dont want to carry around the real thing (fabulous Sennheisers of course) As to whether they are good or bad, I see no reason to think that Audiovox had spent a ton of money on developing something themselves really great in the NC field and then either not sold it (as suggested by the total lack of reviews anywhere) or not priced it to make a whole lot of money by competing with Bose or not advertised it to sell to people who dont want to pay hundreds of dollars for Bose. The real reason for the OP was because I hadnt come across this business of Audiovox coming out with anything in the HiFi field and was intrigued by their owning AR. |
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Acoustic Research ARNC01 reviews???
Oh, and one other thing intrigued me, Audiovox's geographical
location which is suspiciously similar to the location of the original company which introduced these things to the consumer market, NoiseBuster. Their Extremes, which I also have, work OK, have no real bass but noise cancellation is interesting in that it can BE ADJUSTED!! They apparently stopped selling these consumer grade products (and moved to Ct?) when Sony introduced their heavily advertised NC headphones which didnt work as well. I also have some Sony MDR-NC6 (Works OK, no real bass but no real noise cancellation), some suspiciously similar looking Sharper Image NC ones (Works OK, no real bass but no real noise cancellation) and of course the PXE250s. I just wondered whether anyone at NoiseBuster in Hauppauge went to work for AR/Audiovox in Hauppauge if it was the same NoiseBuster company which now makes industrial headphones in Ct. I was intrigued at the idea of anyone other than Sennheiser marrying HiFi with genuine NC. |
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