Denon AH-NC600 are real in-ear beauties

Fwd Tech  Monday 27 July 2009

Denon's new noise-cancelling, in-ear headphones take our lobes up to aural heaven

Denon’s AH-NC600 in-ear headphones follow hot on the heels of last week’s Denon AH-S360 earbuds. The difference here is that the AH-NC600s come with noise-cancelling technology to relegate the outside whinges and roaring motors to nothing but whisps in your ears.

The Denon AH-S360 earbuds are actually Denon’s first pair of noise-cancelling in-ear headphones, minimising outside noise by up to 99 per cent. All you need is a small AAA battery and you’re guaranteed a whopping 0 hours of near complete external noise block-out.

Tech-wise Denon’s piled in its proprietary Compressed Audio Restorer into the AH-S360 earbuds. It’s effectively an upscaler for your tunes, that restores the music to something like their original glory before they got compressed. Alongside an Acoustic Optimizer, that means you get as dynamic a sound as you could wish for from a set of in-ear buds and bass as deep asa very deep hole.

Elsewhere, Denon’s kitted the Denon AH-S360 earbuds with an ergonomic design, a newly-developed Hybrid housing for crisper sound, and a Radial Cascade Damper that cuts noise from the hanging cables. All of which makes for a pretty impressive pair of cans. And all for £159.99 from September.