Earphones for airplane?

Runbalk · 18 Jun 2006 at 18:52

I'm gonna be flying to the States soon and was wanting a pair of earphones that'll block out as much ambient noise on the flight as possible. Now I've been thinking about the Sennheiser CX300s and the Creative EP-630s - but I'm concerned about people's complaints of vibrations running along the wires... which I imagine would sound worse on a plane. Anyone have any recommendations? Are the vibrations that bad?

Runbalk · 18 Jun 2006 at 22:25

Cheers for the advice guys.

I'm not willing to spend more than £30 - so if the Sennheisers or Creatives can block out the noise pretty well, then I can't justify getting more expensive earphones

Runbalk · 18 Jun 2006 at 22:53

fish99 said:
Also if you don't have whiskers/stubble that will help too.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!111 :mad:

Runbalk · 19 Jun 2006 at 01:21

Right well I've just ordered the Creatives. Flight is on Friday, so I'll post again later to report the results

Runbalk · 19 Jun 2006 at 18:47

TooNice said:
IEM is alright on the plane. I'd say it is one of the few places which it has the least side effects as long as you don't move around too much.

Cheers, that's exactly what I wanted to know

Runbalk · 30 Jun 2006 at 17:21

Used the 630s on the plane - and I could still hear the humming of the plane loud and clear. I could only hear the brighter parts of any music I was listening to - the bass got drowned out by the ambient noise of the plane.

If any of you are gonna use these for watching movies on a plane, they'll at least be good enough for hearing dialogue