Polk Audio ULTRA FOCUS 8000 | High performance over-ear active noise canceling headphones

I was criticized recently for having an average of mostly positive reviews; well I just entered a 2 star on another product. I take reviews seriously, and do hours of research, and use every product I review. Unfortunately the bad, or the few I return, often do not get reviewed. I won't repeat most of what you will find on the Polk Audio ULTRA FOCUS 8000; but will cut to the chase!

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE HOW THESE Polk Audio ULTRA FOCUS 8000 HEADPHONES SOUND! Polk has done a superb job, these are above fray! Sound quality at audiophile level! Equal nearly to my home set at almost 4 times the price, absolutely no exaggeration. I demo'd these at the Atlanta airport, amongst the AKG, the Beats, the Bose, (which I used to own...and had a brief foray with the Parrot zik, Klipsch, and these beat them all in sound...clean, balanced, lows, mids, highs, no detectable distortion; don't want to take them off. These are sweet! Decent, base, some pulsing, good sound stage, for closed phones. As far as NC, there are a few professional reviews, one that says, they don't have any Noise Cancellation, that is an exaggeration. If the Bose isolate around 88% of ambient noise, these do about 65%; most average about 55% for Noise cancelers. Remember some closed phone, with no active cancellation, actually isolate better than any electronic NCs. But then the Electric NCs, have additional features, including push to talk! So + and minus, IEMs isolate the best but not everyone, wants things in their ears all the time.

One really important observation. Recently these got a so so rating on Polk Audio ULTRA FOCUS 8000's Noise Cancellation ability. Well if you read the discussion about these Polk, they talk about their dynamic tuning, and their ability to enable you to hear voices when you need to, but at the same time, push the background noise out; also to not negate the mids and highs you desire for great sound. All this comes at a trade off. Do you want perfect NCing and sacrifice sound quality, or really high end SQ, and sacrifice some NCing ability. These are the latter. In the world of overcrowded NC phones, the sound quality on these is likely unequaled. They are BIG, fit well, could be warm, but overall, fit well, superbly built, audiophile quality, tiny tiny, NC hiss, but quickly unnoticeable when listening to music; and aim to cancel out the most disturbing noise, but deliver great sound, across all genres! These are a keeper!

Tomorrow morning the plane test, I will update if anything changes, but I am glad about Polk!
Very recommended, you can claim Polk Audio ULTRA FOCUS 8000's Noise Cancellation here!


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