Is there no electronic store near you, where you can just rock up and try stuff out?
We have a few of them around like Myer, JB Hi-Fi, HarveyNorman etc
They will have the couple of the best headsets on disply and you can ask the customre service chick or dude to test it out
If that ain't an option
How about refunds then, could you give it a whirl and refund within 7 days or something if you don't like it?
Not too sure where you buying it from, whether its online or B&M
There are stores, but I probably won't be able to test without buying, especially for something like these types of wireless/bluetooth earbuds.
Also testing would mean I would have to waste my time going there and all that. Ugh, fuck off
Yes I can sent back. I believe I have 14 days to send back. Still, I'd lose like $3,50 for delivery to receive + $3,50 to send back. So it's not a free ride.
I'm buying online bro.
Check it out though, I have news...
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Ohhh okay, I figured as much. It's like with anything, the more complex you go with it, the more mud you have to swim in:
One of the biggest downsides of using ANC is the fact that using it brings down the overall audio quality of the headphones. After all, the headphones need to generate their own antiphases as they’re playing your music, which is too taxing for even the best ANC headphones to do without any sound degradation – even though you ideally won’t hear the antiphases, the drivers will have to generate them while also playing your music.
This downside is usually offset by the fact that being able to hear music without any ambient noise will enhance the listening experience. Thankfully, most ANC headphones let you turn this feature on and off at your leisure so that you don’t have to suffer the lower audio quality when you’re already in a quiet environment.
Another downside is the pressure that using ANC puts on your ears. To put it simply, wearing headphones with the ANC turned on will make you feel like you’re going through a tunnel. This isn’t in any way physically painful, nor is it harmful, but it can get irksome.
Also, there’s just the general fact that there’s no way to tell how well the ANC is implemented in a particular pair of headphones without using them. Looking at the specs tells you
nothing whatsoever about the quality of the ANC featured in that product.
What’s particularly irritating is that you’ll often see or hear claims like
10dB of noise-canceling, but for that, you’d need ANC that’s equally good at creating antiphases for all sound frequencies, and that just doesn’t happen.
In fact, if you want to reduce ambient mids and highs, headphones with good passive noise isolation will often work better than your average ANC headphones.
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Okay, fuck it, I'm getting the SonicGear earbuds. But if the website that sells them doesn't have them available, and if I can't find them on any other site, then I'll get the Gembird ones.
Unless someone has something to add to change my mind, this is what I'll do.
