Audio-Technica ATH-ANC7 QuietPoint Active Noise-Cancelling Headphones | 
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Arrive refreshed after a long flight, avoid distractions in a noisy office, or find peace & quiet in your living room?with ATH-ANC7 QuietPoint Active Noise-Cancelling Headphones. These lightweight, compact headphones effectively reduce distracting background noise by up to 85% while offering the superior audio quality that has made Audio-Technica a worldwide leader in electro-acoustic technology. Ideal for use with MP3, CD, DVD & in-flight entertainment systems, ATH-ANC7 QuietPoint close
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Model: ATH-ANC7
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| • | ATH-ANC7 QuietPoint active noise-cancelling headphones effectively reduces environmental noise by up to 85% with or without audio | | • | Ideal for travel and use with MP3, CD, DVD and in-flight entertainment systems | | • | Pro superior audio quality with 40mm drivers with neodymium magnet systems in each earpiece for deeper bass, extended treble and higher fidelity | | • | Fully integrated active noise-cancelling - no external modules needed | | • | Includes a detachable cable (remove for noise-cancelling function without audio) with 3.5 mm mini-plugs, a full-size " adapter, a specialized airline adapter for connecting to in-flight entertainment systems, and a handy carrying case |
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Arrive refreshed after a long flight, avoid distractions in a noisy office, or find peace & quiet in your living room?with ATH-ANC7 QuietPoint Active Noise-Cancelling Headphones. These lightweight, compact headphones effectively reduce distracting background noise by up to 85% while offering the superior audio quality that has made Audio-Technica a worldwide leader in electro-acoustic technology. Ideal for use with MP3, CD, DVD & in-flight entertainment systems, ATH-ANC7 QuietPoint closed-back headphones feature large-aperture 40 mm drivers with neodymium magnet systems for deeper bass, extended treble and higher fidelity. Noise-cancelling electronics are fully integrated in each earpiece, with no need for external modules. A single AAA battery powers the active noise-cancelling technology; the audio functions in passive mode even without the battery. These headphones fold flat for easy portability. They include a detachable cable (remove for noise-cancelling function without audio) with 3.5 mm mini-plugs, a full-size ? adapter, a specialized airline adapter for connecting to inflight entertainment systems, and a handy carrying case. Audio functions (in passive mode) even without the battery Fully integrated electronics?no external modules needed Uses 1 AAA Battery Full international 1 Year Warranty
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 Half the price but better than Bose? Heh.. think we found a winner! May 3, 2007
stormy sean (paradise)
987 out of 995 found this review helpful
As everybody I'm sure, I debated between these and the Bose Quiet comforts. I have listened to all 3 and I myself like the over the ear better first of all, so the QC 3 where out ( and they pretty much compare evenly with the QC2 ). Now for the review of this product versus the QC2, my two remaining choices.
QC 2 - Excellent noise canceling, overall excellent balance in music tone. Good Highs, Good Mid-range but EXCELLENT bass. Downside is 300 dollars and very flimsy (cheaply made)
ATH-ANC7 -
1.SUPERB Noise canceling: Plane: W/O music - everything is muffled as if you where in a room by yourself but you could hear people outside the door. With Music: I had trouble hearing ANY Noise outside the music, It was almost completely silent...I could turn my Ipod down to around 25% of max volume and could hear every instrument and then some. These are BETTER than Bose as far as Noise canceling.
2. The High and Mid-range on these things are some of the best I've heard, and I am now comparing with the Bose as well as some Grado's. These demolish Bose in that area, you almost can FEEL the snare drums and the breath of the singer...honestly.
3. Bass - This is kind of the downside. The bass is there, but definitely is not as apparent as with the Bose. It has a nice muffled thumping sound, but is kind of back shadowed by the highs, but after adjusting the EQ you could hear it more, and it was fairly descent with no distortion. There was,however, some distortion with the very deep punchy bass on some songs, which is kind of annoying. You can't hear it that much enough to mess with the song, but it is there sometimes, I'm trying to guess whether it is my headphones or it just does this, but all in all the bass is a 5.5/10.
4. Comfort - Excellent comfort, more so than the QC 2. Has a more padded cushion, and it fits nicely over my ears.
5. Construction - Doesn't feel as flimsy as the QC 2's, and has a nice solid feel.
+++ Added Bonus - The Noise Canceling option runs off of AAA batteries ( one to be exact ) versus charging with the QC3s. This is SOOO much easier than charging, and the battery lasts for around 40 hours. I absolutely love this feature.
All in all I think you know which one i recommend. I bought these new for 140 versus 300 for the Bose, and I can't tell you enough how much these are actually better than the Bose. You will be saving money and getting better features along with it. If it sounds to good to be true - it isn't. I am the first reviewer of these and I went out on a limb buying these, now I come to you to let you know that you don't have ONE choice when it comes to noise canceling headphones. So I thank you for reading my review, and happy listening!
 Great sound, Good comfort, Sound leakage from hell July 25, 2007
Dean Jones Jr. (Atlanta, GA)
260 out of 269 found this review helpful
I bought these from Amazon with very high hopes. See, I bought the Bose Quiet Comfort 2's and while I was pleased with the Bose comfort, style and noise cancellation, I was utterly displeased with the sound from the Bose. It's very muddy, almost muffled with bass that sounds like it's not where it should be in certain areas (the bass rolls off into the mids too much, I guess...) I'm not an audiophile, but I expect to have clarity in my music. I mainly listen to House and Dance music but I'm all over the map. I have Pantera on my iPod, some old 80's hair metal, I will admit I even have Kelly Clarkson and The Veronica's on my iPod (shhh!).
I was hoping the ANC7's would as comfortable as the Bose, provide just as good noise cancellation and provide more notable highs and tighter bass but also keep the music in my ears and not leaking out of the headphones for everyone else in the office to hear. Here is my review based on the comparison of the Bose Quiet Comfort 2's that everyone keeps comparing these to.
COMFORT
They're very comfortable. They're a bit tighter than the Bose on the ears. I almost have to tuck my ears into the ANC7's unlike the Bose. However, this causes no discomfort to me. If you're picking at straws, the Bose win. However, I'd say it's about even. The only thing I can say that is a slight drawback in the ANC7's is that my ears would begin to feel a tad hot after extended wear...
NOISE CANCELLATION
Dead even to me. I couldn't pick up if one was canceling out noise more than the other in my loud office environment. I think the ANC7's did a great job for noise cancellation here as there is no audible buzz like in some NC headphones. I used to think Bose was the only company that could do NC correctly, but I was obviously wrong... the ANC7's were on par with the Bose in this area.
BUILD AND STYLE
Again, even here... I read someone on here that the ANC7's look better in person than they do in the pictures. That person was 100% correct. The ANC7's look very nice a sleek in person. I was amazed. I thought nothing could beat the style of the Bose, but again... I was wrong. These are just as (if not more) stylish than the Bose. However, the ANC7's win in build quality. Hold both of these headphones, the ANC7's feel notably better and more sturdy compared to the lighter, but cheaper feeling Bose. The ANC7's are by no means heavy, but definitely feel more sturdy.
SOUND
ANC7's win. The bass in tracks is notable unlike some reviewers have said. If you're used to the Bose, you may think these lack bass, but in fact they don't... The bass is just where it should be. In the Bose headphones, the bass in "enhanced" and bleeds into the mids and highs a lot making things sound very unnatural to me. However, in the ANC7's, the bass hits hard, but is tight and centered. Again, I'm not an audiophile, so I may sound like a dork explaining this stuff (not using the right technical jargon?) but this is the best I can describe it. The highs in the ANC7 are great. Not muffled like in the Bose and yet, not harsh so that it may hurt your ears. Music sounds a lot more natural in the ANC7's.
SOUND LEAKAGE
What I mean by this is when you have your headphones on, what your cube neighbor or person sitting next to you may hear leaking out of your headphones. Well, I bought closed, over the ear headphones for a reason... to try and eliminate any sound leakage so that I won't annoy my office. The Bose leak sound a good bit. However, the ANC7's leak sound TERRIBLY. I was amazed. The way I tested this was two ways... 1) Having the headphones lay flat on my desk with the ear cups laying flat on the desk. I'd turn my iPod's volume to a volume I typically listen at in the office. Since the Bose are a tad muffled in sound, I would even increase the volume on the iPod to compensate for that when testing the Bose. To my amazement, the ANC7's were almost louder off of my ears than they were on my ears. No kidding, either. I could hear every word of every song and easily identify which song it was that was currently playing without looking at my iPod. However, with the Bose (even with an increased volume) I could not make out the song as well. Lyrics weren't easily identified at all, but you could hear music coming from the headphones... just not notably and easily identifiable. The ANC7's are doing something weird that allows the music to leak majorly... I'm talking about you would think I had a radio on my desk playing (with the bass turned down, of course). This honestly defeats all purposes of a set of headphones. Headphones are supposed to be so you can privately listen to music, not let the whole world in on the experience. Besides, I can't let my office mates know that I'm listening to The Veronica's, right? Wait, are they reading this review???
Overall, I was dissatisfied with the ANC7's. The main thing that made me feel this way was the sound leakage because that's of major importance to me when buying a pair of headphones to wear in the office while writing code. I want to be sure that I'm not annoying everyone while - as Milton put it - "listening at a reasonable volume." I was really excited about the ANC7's until I noticed this huge drawback.
PROS - Great sound, good comfort, great price, great noise cancellation, you can listen to them even with the noise cancellation turned off
CONS - MAJOR sound leakage, ears get a little hot after extended wear
I wish sound leakage wasn't such a huge issue, but if I'm listening at a reasonable volume and everyone around me is dancing along or laughing or getting mad due to the distraction, then, again... this defeats the purpose of headphones.
 Audio-Technica Kicks Bose Butt May 17, 2007
Bruce R. Cordell (Seattle, WA USA)
219 out of 224 found this review helpful
I owned a set of Bose Quietcomfort2 headphones for about 2 years. I really loved them, and they lasted about... 2 years. Within months of purchasing them, the plastic arms slowly crumbled, until each sidearm of the set was thickly wrapped in electrician's tape to keep the thing together.
Last week, one headphone cup broke off, and no amount of tape would any longer keep them together. I've never traveled with these, I used them only at my desk, I've never dropped them.
Even with such care, the plastic slowly crumbled away.
Is this planned obsolescence? For something that cost me $350 dollars, I'm very upset.
So, I ordered a set of these Audio Technica headphones. So far, they cancel noise slightly better than the Bose, and in fact allow me to go to a lower volume on music while I'm working at my desk.
I guess to really compare to the Bose, I'll have to give them a little time and see if they begin crumbling away after just 6 months as the Quietcomfort2 did. So, if that happens, I'll give another review. But for now, I'm happy.
UPDATE 09/05/08: I've fixed a few editorial errors on my review pointed out in comments. Also, I wanted to follow through on my promise to give another review: After more than a year of use, these headphones are still going strong without any of the degradation problems I encountered with the Bose set. I still highly recommend these.
Best Noise Cancelling Headset for the $ May 22, 2007
W. Stohler (Honolulu, HI USA)
210 out of 214 found this review helpful
Maybe I should have left off...'for the $'. I've tried the QC2 and QC3, and in my opinion, the ATH-ANC7s beat them both!
If you're looking for near-audiophile balanced sound (bass, mid and high-frequencies), I think you won't be disappointed. Great design, great noise cancelling, great battery life, detachable cord, very comfortable, and less than half the price of th QC2. They look better in real life than in the picures.
High quality product, reasonable price. Highly recommended.
 Product fails, vendor fails, amazon A-Z fails: A cautionary tale January 11, 2008
C. E. Taylor (Los Angeles)
45 out of 64 found this review helpful
As a preface, know that in over a decade of amazon patronage and literally thousands of dollars of purchases, this is the first time I've ever written a review like this.
In a word: Beware.
First, don't believe the product description here which says "find peace & quiet in your living room." This product does absolutely zero to cancel the noise from neighbors' leaf blowers, weed wackers, chain saws, hedge trimmers, or barking dogs. That's what I bought it for, as a birthday present for my husband so he could have some peace and quiet in his study where he tries to concentrate and do his writing. And he was thrilled at the idea -- until he tried using it. Zero noise cancellation effect for any of those noises.
Second, don't dare consider buying anything from Electronics Expo to give as a present, if at all. Presumably, you would want to make sure you got a present in plenty of time so you would order it in advance. Well, as I only now know, Electronics Expo starts a 30-day clock ticking for making returns from the day you place your order. Not the day you receive it, much less give it as a present, but from the day you place the order.
And good luck trying to reach Expo to even find that out: they (admittedly) "can't keep up" with answering their phones--or their emails. (I only phoned during their advertised business hours, yet I repeatedly got a phone message saying "You've called after business hours.") Electronics Expo threatens you on their website here not to dare try to BOTH phone them AND email them or that will risk impeding your return. They also tell you that you cannot return anything without first getting an "RA" number to put on your package.
So after a week or two of getting no answer by phone, I resorted to email and ceased phoning, as per their insistence, and then they didn't answer their emails either for over 2 weeks.
The only time - a month into this saga - that they ever answered their phone - to even allow me to be placed on hold, I was on hold for FORTY minutes before someone answered. And the upshot? "Ohhh, too late. Sorry. 30 days expired."
In short, Expo's customer service is the worst. Don't waste ANY time trying to phone them. At least if you begin by emailing them, you have a record of when you began trying to initiate a return.
Third, and alas (given how much I have always liked amazon), do NOT believe amazon operators when they tell you that your situation qualifies for A-Z coverage and that you will get your money refunded. Since I'd never had any reason previously to even be aware of what amazon's A-Z guarantee is or entails, I also got stung learning the first time about how A-Z works or rather doesn't work.
I've been led astray for over a month now by amazon and by four different amazon operators, each of whom heard my story and insisted that I should rest assured that my situation qualified and I would get my money back, only to then receive follow-up emails saying "Sorry, you don't qualify." It's not enough that the product fails to do what it says it will do.
And amazon A-Z's "solution" reverts each time to: Contact the vendor. (Yeah, right. YOU try contacting this seller.)
Also, if you ever file an A-Z guarantee, do NOT let an operator do it for you. Apparently, from what a later amazon operator told me, the first operator -- who never told me I had the option to do it myself and simply said she was filing an A-Z claim on my behalf -- had written the briefest kind of explanation -- "doesn't meet conditions." The later operator thought that was why my A-Z was rejected initially (and as of today, a month later, I now have officially had two appeals of this verdict rejected -- hence now this "review" of the whole process, since amazon has now failed me as well). That later operator suggested i go into my order and refile an A-Z claim on my own but she didn't even realize that you can't do that. Once there is one filed A-Z claim, there's no link anymore in the order on the website for being able to refile a claim and to do it in your own words, and you become utterly dependent on further amazon operators to represent your case.
All amazon has done, after repeated assurances to the contrary, is say: Sorry, contact the vendor, try to get them to cover it as defective under warranty.
Well, I have no idea whether this unit is defective or merely falsely advertised to do things it doesn't do. (By the way, I tried the unit myself and there's no way it cuts down 85% of sound. Even music going in the same room was reduced only minimally, nowhere near the claimed 85% -- not to mention, again, that the sounds I bought it to cancel for my husband like neighbors' gardening equipment were completely unreduced.) And the vendor is virtually unreachable.
All I wanted -- totally legitimately -- was to return the gift to my husband, which was a waste of $128 for a product that doesn't do what it said it would do. Period. I started attempting that return two days after his birthday, when it was already clear to him that, despite his loving the idea of the gift, it wasn't working. And it's now been a total of 7 weeks since I began that attempt to return it and I've been given the royal runaround and stonewalling.
It's absurd that amazon does business with a vendor who starts a return-policy clock ticking from the day you place an order and only gives 30 days.
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