[Sonnova]

On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 08:57:33 -0700, wrote
(in article ):

On Jun 10, 9:30*am, Sonnova wrote:
On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 21:04:10 -0700, wrote
(in article ):

My wife and I both notice that after about four or five hours of
wearing these, the cartilege in our ears, in places, gets a bit stiff
and painful. Cause? Solutions?

I think that's fairly normal. The only way around it is a pair of phones
that
do not rest upon, nor touch the outer-ear. There are phones like that (Stax,
AKG) but they aren't cheap.

There are noise reduction phones that do this? Links? Better than Bose?

Not to my knowledge. I was merely addressing the complaint about the
long-term comfort of "on-ear" headphones, not noise-canceling. One point that
needs to be clearly reiterated. Noise canceling headphones ONLY cancel
steady-state noise (air conditioners, the sound of jet engines in an airliner
cabin, etc). The noise-canceling circuitry does not work on things like
speech, somebody else's music, a TV playing in the same room, footsteps of
the upstairs neighbor, or anything that isn't constant and consistent.