Sony's noise-canceling earphones US-bound in February

You didn't have to wait until now to pick up Sony's MDR-NC300D noise-canceling earphones -- after all, they've been imported from Japan since their June debut. Still, now that the 'buds are hitting official status US routes in February, it'll be a heck of a lot easier to make that impulse buy. No price mentioned, but expect at least a few Benjamins to automatically eject from your wallet.

[MichaelB Posted Jan 10th 2010 1:36AM]

i bet they will be over priced and have bad build quality

[Karate Tortoise Posted Jan 10th 2010 1:47AM]

Don't forget the part where they never fucking stay in your ears

[revoltracers Posted Jan 10th 2010 1:56AM]

@MichaelB Hmm, the $30 buds are okay, really. Don't know about these.

[Arkv2 Posted Jan 10th 2010 2:32AM]

@MichaelB
As far as I know the only sony buds that have durability problems are the cheap in-ear ones (although more than a year ago I bought the cheapest set for situations where I don't care about what happens to them, at all, and they still work perfecly).

[Xent Posted Jan 10th 2010 1:45AM]

Plenty of pennies will do!

[einhanderkiller Posted Jan 10th 2010 1:48AM]

Looks old school.

[pika2000 Posted Jan 10th 2010 2:09AM]

Sounds like Sony finally have enough used, returned and unwanted units from Japan to be dumped in the US.

[Fizy Posted Jan 10th 2010 2:25AM]

I have the NC33, which are the earbuds currently available and they are fantastic. I am sure that the big Bose earphones are better, but if you want earbuds with great active noise cancellation, Sony does a great job.

[pspkicks Posted Jan 10th 2010 2:40AM]

@Fizy
Too bad Bose is terrible quality.

[OCEAN CLAK Posted Jan 10th 2010 5:26AM]

@pspkicks

actually bose sound quality is good, just overpriced

[Ucvbn Bjfyuvs Posted Jan 10th 2010 4:17AM]

They need Bluetooth stereo A2DP. iPhone compatible, of course.

[revoltracers Posted Jan 10th 2010 5:13AM]

@(Unverified) But will you buy it then?

[etcetra Posted Jan 10th 2010 8:56AM]

I bought Sennheiser CX300 earphone for less than 30 bucks not long ago. If you do research you can get very descent earphone for very cheap. And if I am spending extra money I'd rather get shure's e2c or se series, because those earphone block external sounds much better.

Seriously, why would anybody use noise-canceling earphone when sound-isolating earphones do a much better job blocking sound? does any one have an answer for that?

[nsfw Posted Jan 10th 2010 1:19PM]

Whoever said their Bose full size are better, well of course, inner ears are never going to be able to produce the kind of sound you get from a full size. I have UE Triple Fi 10 and they sound like crap next to my Denon D5000.
And I agree with the last post. Just getting some CX300's or any $30 Sony Fontopia's are going to block out enough sound and not introduce any crappy white noise to mix into your music.

[BHUBJOHNNY Posted Jan 10th 2010 3:24PM]

AS USUAL,THE JAPS ALWAYS GIVE US THEIR LEFTOVERS WHEN THEY ARE DONE WITH THEIR MEALS.

[OrsonX Posted Jan 10th 2010 5:32PM]

I have a pair of SONY MDR-NC22 noise canceling headphones, the predecessor to these, below is my in-depth review of their performance:

UTTER-CRAP

[cdf74dc9 Posted Jan 10th 2010 6:22PM]

My Sony MDREX90LP headphone still kickin' years later. Might considered upgrade if it cost less than a Benjamin. Sony headphone has some nice quality unlike Crapple headphone.

[ijustwanttosayhello Posted Jan 10th 2010 10:41PM]

I've been using my Sony earbuds for years now (the model under the -71s). They seem to work perfectly. I used a pair of Bose QuietComfort 3's on a recent trip and it didn't work too well with my PSP. They definitely cut the external sounds, but I couldn't hear the movie I had on my PSP. I plugged in my Sony earphones and suddenly I could hear again.