A noise reduction rating is nice, but it's not everything.(NOTES FROM THE LAB)
Publication Date: 01-JUL-07
Publication Title: The Aviation Consumer
Format: Online

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Following our report on active noise reduction headsets in the May issues, the e-mails trickled in. With all those expensive lab tests, why the heck didn't you guys publish good numbers on noise reduction values? a couple of readers asked. After all, manufacturers do this. We'll concede the point, but it's not as simple as that.

Noise reduction value for ANR headsets is a complex subject and although we collected the data necessary to describe it, doing so in a way useful to readers proved all but impossible in the limited space allotted for the article. And frankly, even with more space, we're not sure a detailed essay on noise...

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