WHAT??! WHAT??? noise cancelling earmuffs $16 w/ free ship

[davidtu]

http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/B00009L...pf_rd_i=507846

Free standard shipping at a pretty decent price, lower than usual anyway.

NOTE: you do not have to fill out order to $25 to get free shipping; it is free standard (not supersaver) shipping.

[Uncle Cracker]

I got a pair of noise-canceling phones, and my wife mysteriously disappeared...

[radhak]

I got a pair of noise-canceling phones, and my wife mysteriously disappeared...

ROFLMAO

[LarryG]

I own a pair of those. EXCELLENT muffs.

[Alex Franke]

Fantastic -- I've been meaning to pick these up. Thanks for the tip!

[p8ntblr]

I have a similar pair. They work great but man my ears start to sweat after while .

[gad5264]

Thanks for posting. I have been looking at these and now I will have a pair in 3-5 business days.

[radhak]

I recommend these that i bought at woodcraft. minimal contact, very light with great effect.

Somehow I found it puzzling that (true to the claim) it massively reduced the sound of the router/saw, but still allowed me hear somebody call me at regular volume (of course when the said router/saw was not running); no complaints - am happy with it.

edit : i tried some other type with the regular muffs earlier, and found myself sweating and uncomfortable around the ears.

[LCHIEN]

Back up to $19 already.
Very confusing product description on Amazon - they describe about three different models in the same paragraph including one with a radio.
I have a pair of the Noise limiting headphones from HF. Worked OK when it worked. It has a microphone and replays outside sounds to the muffs as long as they are not to high. When they exceed a certain value, they instantly turn off and you just hear what the muffs attenuate which is about 25-27 dB reduced. But in mine the threshold seems to be broken, it either plays everything or nothing, so I just leave them off and have just the reduction now. It was nice being able to hear soft sounds when the saw was off and the muffs on but...

[Alex Franke]

What I'd really like to see is a set of headphones that cancels everything over a certain threshold AND pipes in sounds from a microphone placed in the house. (Kids room, kitchen, etc). That way I could hear my wife or kids calling even when I'm using the router...

Anything like that out there for a reasonable price?

[LCHIEN]

What I'd really like to see is a set of headphones that cancels everything over a certain threshold AND pipes in sounds from a microphone placed in the house. (Kids room, kitchen, etc). That way I could hear my wife or kids calling even when I'm using the router...

Anything like that out there for a reasonable price?

You could get an FM radio equipped Muffs and get a short-range FM transmitter to pipe yourself sound from the house be it the kids or the audio system in the house.

[Jeffrey Schronce]

Question for current users of active noise cancelling units. So if you fire up a router does it then block all sound or does it just allow sounds below a certain volume to come through?

[Anna]

I have two of these. It's not going to totally block all sounds, which is a good thing because you do want to know what's going on with your tools. It will reduce a lot of the high-pitched whine of the motors, leaving the lower ranges which are not as painful to the ears. You can also hear people talk at normal volumes, but not really very well nor very clearly. It is clear enough for when they shout a warning, though.

Been using these while mowing the lawn, too.

I also have a true noise-cancelling pair-of-muffs that actively cancel outside sounds and can be plugged into an iPod or other MP3 players. It works pretty well when you're playing something (especially during a flight), but on its own (unplugged from a music device) you can hear "white noise" in the background. I also won't recommend these in the workshop. In my opinion, it's not a great idea to have your mind preoccupied with something else while a piece of metal running at 25000 rpm is just a few inches from your fingers, and you can't even hear the thing going.

Just my 2 cents, of course.

[LCHIEN]

Question for current users of active noise cancelling units. So if you fire up a router does it then block all sound or does it just allow sounds below a certain volume to come through?

Those that use active noise cancelling attempt to mix in a negative signal into a non-sealed headphone that balances out the noise signal. But they can only do it so well say 95% so what you hear is like 5% of the original sound pressure signal. Then 95% or so many dB is the reduction of noise from a noise cancelling unit. It will try to cancel everything including background noise and someone speaking to you.

The ones that use threshhold, have sealed muffs that will block so many dB (typically about 25 to 27) of the sound so you just hear a greatly reduced everything. But they have a microphone pickup outside and will play the sounds in the room for you so you can hear everything at normal levels including a whisper that you hear w/o the phones. Sounds like listening over a telephone or maybe thru a tube. But if the noise exceeds a certain threshold, then the sound to the earphones is cut off and falls to dead silence except for whatever comes thru the muffs. There's a knob you adjust when the tool is running so it just cuts off the sound. When you turn off the tool then you'll hear the room sounds again.

The difference is that the NC phones use electronics to cancel noise with unsealed phones and the Threshold phones use sealed muffs to stop the noise and electronics to let you hear soft sounds.

Two different approaches.

[SHADOWFOX]

I have the Shure E3C in-ear noise canceling headphones, they work great and I wear it when I am running machines specially the router, shopvac and the dust collector. I like listening to music on them, although I don't know how they are compared to the Bose noise canceling headsets because I have yet to use one.

Chris