Hasta La Gadget!

Someday someone somewhere somehow will invent a pair of noise canceling headphones that do three things: 1. Deliver top quality audio. 2.) Cut out ambient noise perfectly. 3.) Cost under a hundred bucks. Senior editor Dylan Tweney just reviewed a set of cans that fall far short of this trifecta. From his review:

To their credit these bulbous cans do a good job of silencing the
traffic hum from the street below the WIRED offices, and they nicely
muffle the gnashing of teeth in the newsroom around me.

But sonically, they’re about as satisfying as a week-old rice cake.
The sound feels clipped and flat: High-end frequencies that hum
crystal-clear in better headphones are missing or muffled in the Plane
Quiets. Stereo separation is not as sharply defined as I’d like, and
the overall sound feels only like it’s half alive.

$100 • outsidetheboxgroup.com

Read the whole Plane Quiet Platinum Headphone review here.