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I’ve Flown 200+ Hours This Year. Here’s the Only Headphone Comparison That Matters.

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I made a genuinely expensive mistake two years ago. I bought cheap in-ear ANC earbuds for a 14-hour flight from Toronto to Tokyo because a YouTube review made them sound like a bargain. By hour six I had a headache. By hour ten I’d turned off the ANC because it was causing that horrible pressurised […]

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14 Hours in Economy. Here’s the Gear That Actually Got Me Through It.

Vancouver to Tokyo. Fourteen hours. Middle seat. Row 34. The person in front of me reclined before we’d cleared Canadian airspace and spent the entire flight horizontal at approximately my chin level. The person behind me had a cough and no apparent sense of rhythm. The seatback screen on my unit was frozen on a