Sep 6 2010
Best Noise Cancelling Headphone – Does Style Actually Matter?
Obviously if you are looking for the best noise cancelling headphones, you realize that style doesn’t matter right? I mean you are looking for the ability of these headphones to provide the best noise cancelling ability, not how good they look? Well if that is the case, then why do manufactures put so much time in designing these headphones to look good?
Well, I guess we really do know the answer to this question? Yes, of course noise-cancelling ability is the key functionality we are looking for the headphones to perform. And as we all know, whatever looks the best will be the one that sells the best. So, if you have two different headphones that were the same in their noise cancelling ability and the only difference is their look, we know that the one that looks better will be the one that sells better.
Ok, the opposite is not true. In most cases style does matter, but only after the ability of the headphones to cancel the background noise. Once the noise cancelling ability has been established and shows to be the best, then only then does style come into play.
I’m sure that manufactures would rather not have to deal with style in a general sense, but that is human nature, at least for most people. Sure, there are those of you out there that don’t worry about what clothes you wear, what you look like and what people think. And that is neither bad nor good, it’s just who you are. I don’t know whether it’s genetic or environment, but a lot of people care about what they look like and what other people might think. Consequently, the manufacturers want to make these headphones very stylish so that people who wear them feel good about themselves and the other people who will see them.
So yes, style does matter for the best noise cancelling headphones, but it is only secondary to the noise cancelling ability of the headphones, not in place of that ability.
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