What’s the difference between sound isolating headphones and noise cancelling?

By Grissom  

I heard noise cancelling needs batteries, major turn off? And which one do you recommend, is there any good brand that’s cheap?

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One Comment

  1. ?BobB?
    Posted May 13, 2010 at 3:09 am | Permalink

    sound isolating completely covers the ears and blocks sound.

    noise cancelling have an audio amp built in and a microphone so that when you are wearing the headphones, you can hear normally until you are in a loud noise enviorment and the headphones become isolating headphones.

    Hunters and shooters use noise cancelling. The report from a shot causes the headphones to block the loud report.

    I buy my shooting headphones at Harbor Freight, they are under $25.00 with a coupon and are every bit as good as the $99.00 ones from Dick’s Sporting Goods.

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