Noise Cancelling Headphones - KEF Speakers
Noise cancelling headphones are available in two different variations. Some headphones can offer excellent passive noise attenuation due to the nature of their design. closed back headphones create a seal with the head, prohibiting environmental noise from entering the ear cup. Some types of in ear headphones fit directly into the ear canal with a rubber or silicone tip and create a snug fit, creating a seal which blocks out exterior noise and prevents what you are listening to from leaking out. However, there is also a range of noise cancelling headphones which offer additional noise cancellation technology, above and beyond that which is achieved passively by the nature of the headphones’ design.
Noise cancelling headphones offer a range of advantages over typical headphone designs. Firstly, due to the elimination of exterior noise, these headphones enable you to listen at much lower volumes without suffering from a loss of audio quality or dynamics. This is not only going to protect the lifespan of your headphones or earphones, but also will protect your hearing. We offer a range of noise cancelling products, both headphones with passive noise attenuation and those with active noise cancelling technology. All of our in stock products come with free UK next day delivery.
KEF is a British speaker manufacturer developing industry-leading products for over 50 years. KEF has received a host of awards and stellar reviews and currently offers a wide range of hi-fi speakers and AV speakers.
The flagship KEF Blade and smaller KEF Blade 2 speakers are renowned for their excellence and superb reproduction, and their advanced pioneering technologies and Uni-Q Driver Array designs have filtered down into lots of KEF’s consumer-end products, such as the KEF LS50 wireless speakers.
In 1961, KEF was founded by Raymond Cooke OBE an ex-BBC Electrical Engineer and headquartered the company near Maidstone, Kent. The company was set on the banks of the River Medway in the premises of a former metal working company, Kent Engineering & Foundry. Overtime by experimenting with new technologies and materials, Cooke aimed to produce superior acoustic quality with recordings reproduced to the exact nature of the original performance.
KEF became the first company to utilise the stability of Bextrene as a cone material, which has since been incorporated in many drivers for many leading audiophile speakers. Another major breakthrough a few years later, KEF became the first to design and test loudspeakers with computer modelling leading the industry in the digital analysis of speakers. Their revolutionary work resulted in KEF being able to match speaker pairs to within half a dB for flawless audio reproduction.
KEF eventually went on to produce their signature technology, the Uni-Q point source driver array in the next decade using NASA-developed magnets that were ten times more powerful than conventional ones. KEF stayed ahead of the game in the nineties with the advent of 5.1 home cinema recording by creating the first dedicated centre speaker in the UK, the Model 100 benefiting from Uni-Q.
Through the years, they have been developing impressive expertise in the use of advanced acoustical, magnetic and mechanical modelling techniques such as Finite Element Analysis resulting in an accuracy that was not previously achievable. Kept under wraps since the 1980s, KEF revealed their ACE technology in 2005 demonstrating the advantages of activated carbon inside a compact speaker enclosure and its effect on internal volume and bass extension.
Now five decades from the company’s inception, KEF's scientific innovation and hands-on experimentation cements their ultimate audiophile reputation and allows them to continue to lead in developing products ahead of the market. We stock the complete KEF range, from the multimedia range (that includes active speakers, headphones and earphones) to the Q series range, LS50 range, both the wired and wireless LS50, R series range, KEF Reference range and KEF Blade, along with custom install speakers and 5.1 speaker packages for a home theatre experience.
Noise cancelling headphones which use active noise control achieve much greater signal to noise ratios than headphones which achieve their noise cancellation through passive attenuation, making them ideal for noisy environments. Active noise control achieves noise cancellation by playing an “anti noise”, which is intended to be the exact opposite of the environmental sound, thus cancelling it out and leaving you with just the frequencies of your music.
The active technology found in noise cancelling headphones makes them ideal for use in particularly noisy environments, particularly when commuting or on an aeroplane. The cancellation of ambient noise makes them ideal for drowning out or cancelling the noise of jet engines, or indeed any noisy environment, making such journeys much more comfortable and bearable. They can even be used with no music playing to simply provide a little peace and quiet by cutting out ambient noise!
Noise cancelling headphones, which use active noise cancellation technology and active noise control, require more energy to power this feature. As such, noise cancelling headphones require some form of power. This is often achieved by a battery pack or via internal removable batteries within the ear cups of larger designs of headphones. The need to maintain batteries or keep your headphones charged is something to consider when purchasing noise cancelling headphones. This means that unless you are going to be using your headphones or earphones in a particularly noisy environment, then it may be more simple and convenient to purchase a pair with good passive noise attenuation, as this will eliminate the need to replace batteries and ensure your headphones are charged. Additionally, active noise cancelling headphones may be a little more bulky in order to accommodate the required circuitry and battery – this may be worth considering if you particularly require a compact pair of headphones.
Noise Cancelling Headphones - KEF Speakers
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