“Last year Philips beat Apple in the race to release the first set of Lightning headphones, and here at CES it’s taking a victory lap with another pair that feature active noise cancellation,” Bryan Bishop reports for The Verge.
“The Fidelio NC1L headphones [US$299] plug directly into iOS devices via the Lightning connector, and like their predecessors use their own integrated 24-bit digital to analog converter instead of the one built into Apple’s devices,” Bishop reports. “Noise cancellation isn’t a new feature unto itself by any means, but what sets the new headphones apart is that they don’t require any batteries to make that sonic trickery work (Apple’s Lightning port is capable of providing power along with data).”
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