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Active Noise Cancelling Headphones, 40H Playtime Wireless Bluetooth Headset with Deep WHY ARE NOISE-CANCELING HEADPHONES SO FREAKING EXPENSIVE?
Because they’re freaking amazing. Well… some of them are.
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It’s nice sometimes to block out the sound of the outside world — like, all of it — but with fancy gadgetry often comes a steep price tag, and so it goes with nice headphones. $200, $300 or more? Come on — what’s so wrong with those bright white earbuds that came free with your phone? There are a million headphones out there — what’s the real difference in headphone quality all about, anyway?
Alongside USC electrical and computer engineering professor Chris Kyriakakis — who researches audio technologies and psychoacoustics (which looks at the way humans perceive sound), and who has tested more than 500 headphones in his lab, as well as consulting for the audio industry — we dialed up the volume on some answers.
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