OT I have to fly to Europe and the constant roar of the engines does tire me out some**, so I had a brainstorm about getting noise cancelling headphones.
Alas they cost from 18 to 600 dollars. How to choose? Some wearers get sick from them (maybe because they suck on the eardrum), and others can't sleep with the big ones, over the ear. There are little ones, earbuds, but while they do the cancelling, they don't do much muffling.
Any first- or secnd-hand experience with these things? Any recommendations?
Someone wrote not to connect to the In Flight Entertainment because if you did, every time the seat belt light went on, there would be a seemingly amplified big BONG in one's ears, but I wanted to watch the movie while suppressing the engine noise and fall asleep watching it. What to do?
**It might make less noise if I rode over the wing or in first class,in front of the wing, but I want a view of the ground so I sit behind the wing, where I think it's loudest. ??