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[jbsegal]

Ok, it's official... If they allow cell phone usage on airplane, I'm going to go postal within one, maybe two flights.

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[merde.livejournal.com]

look at it this way: the demand for noise-cancelling earplugs will cause production to skyrocket and prices to plummet.

[ivorjawa.livejournal.com]

They're really good for steady noises like engines, not so good for random noise like speech.
Shiving the loudmouth next to you still remains the most effective strategy.

[(Anonymous)]

It's going to be picocell based.
Which means that it's going to be at punative rates.
Which means it's not much different than the airphone already at just about every seat.

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

In-ear isoloation headphones. The only way to fly. :)

[starphire.livejournal.com]

I assume that's a personal recommendation from experience.
If so, do you use these for general listening, or just in noisy environments?

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

Yup, I own and adore a set of E6i's.

I use them pretty much all the time: in addition to being the Ultimate Subway Annoyance Filter, they are actually the best-sounding earphones I've ever used, period.

The only problem with the Etys, and indeed all in-ear phones of their type, is that they're sometimes a little too good at what they do: you really won't hear anything but the music, so people can very easily sneak up behind you (often unintentionally), and of course riding a bicycle or motorcycle with them in would be insanely dangerous.

Oh, and I personally find the default soft plastic earpieces incredibly uncomfortable: luckily they also come with compressible foam ones which can be reordered pretty cheaply, and one of these days I'll spring for the custom mold.

[madbodger.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, won't happen. And when people try it, they'll realize that reception inside a metal can far from any antenna's beam is terrible, and their batteries will go flat pretty fast.