After nearly 5 years since the beginning of this thread, perhaps many of you have new ideas for listening to music and watching movies on airplanes.
I have just returned from London and although Virgin Atlantic is usually on time, in this case we were delayed for 3 hours leaving Heathrow, and circled Newark for nearly an hour before landing. Brutal. Their tiny video screens are very reflective, and the audio and headphones are horrific.
Listening to my iPod through (I confess!) Bose noise cancellation headphones was far better, but still not very good.
Therefore, I am thinking about dusting off my old Grado headphone amp, upgrading to the Sennheiser 450 noise cancelling headphones ($$$ but seem well made?), and perhaps a new laptop, now that ripping WAV files and decent video is so easy.
Battery life, laptop screen size and quality and weight are still the tricky variables, so it would be great to hear from any of you who have ideas on this.
Dont know if anyone has tried Headroom, but they seem to have a USB DAC which looks small enough for travel?
Thank you.
I have just returned from London and although Virgin Atlantic is usually on time, in this case we were delayed for 3 hours leaving Heathrow, and circled Newark for nearly an hour before landing. Brutal. Their tiny video screens are very reflective, and the audio and headphones are horrific.
Listening to my iPod through (I confess!) Bose noise cancellation headphones was far better, but still not very good.
Therefore, I am thinking about dusting off my old Grado headphone amp, upgrading to the Sennheiser 450 noise cancelling headphones ($$$ but seem well made?), and perhaps a new laptop, now that ripping WAV files and decent video is so easy.
Battery life, laptop screen size and quality and weight are still the tricky variables, so it would be great to hear from any of you who have ideas on this.
Dont know if anyone has tried Headroom, but they seem to have a USB DAC which looks small enough for travel?
Thank you.