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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing headphones, 21 Dec 2004
The Aiwa HP-CN6 headphones are cheap for noise-cancelling headphones. However, this shows greatly - the headphones feel cheap, plasticky and rather flimsy. Moreover, they don't sit comfortably on the head, pinching on the ears and resting painfully on the crown. The foam padding is thin and cheap, offering next to no cushioning, while not aiding the exclusion of noise at all. After not too long wearing the headphones, you need to take them off, because they downright hurt!Unfortunately, the Aiwa's problems do not end there. Acoustically, they are, at very best, average. With the noise-cancelling circuit turned off, bass performance is weak while higher frequencies are fuzzy and indistinct. When the headphones are turned on, the bass is enhanced slightly with the increased sensitivity, but treble performance is still lacking. Mid-range frequencies are reproduced fairly well in both cases. The noise reduction is fairly impressive - it cancels noises at a good range of frequencies much better than I had expected. However, when the headphones are turned on, they introduce a significant hissing. Listening to music through them seems like you are listening to an LP or magnetic tape recording made forty years ago. This is by no means insignificant (I had heard that they would do this before I bought the headphones, but never believed they would have been as bad as they are). It is to the extent that if the external noise is only moderate, the headphones add as much noise as is removed. Overall, these are very disappointing headphones. They are uncomfortable to the point of being painful, with poor acoustic performance and add a lot of hiss. Their only good point is the impressive noise-cancellation, though this is nullified somewhat by the hissing. A cheaper and more effective alternative would be a pair of isolation headphones, such as Koss' "The Plug".
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