3 headphones, which cost $349. We’ve used both during air travel. Here’s what you won’t hear with these on: engine noise from any vehicle, snoring, wind, and quiet conversation. Here’s what you will hear muted variations on: laughter, the *ding* of...

and auxiliary. The input selector is still there but joined by the Talkover with the choice of muting provided when the mike is activated (3, 6 or 9 dB). When you talk into the mike the music will be correspondingly muted so your voice can be clearly heard....

throughout most of his improvisations, sounded only slightly muted compared to my reference Sennheisers. The three reviewed headphones’ sizes and shapes compared. In contrast, the vocalizations were noticeably muted on the Aurvanas, but Jarett’s foot tapping...

Given that it’s going to be at the back of your neck, the range of colors that the LED here flashes to indicate whether you’re playing music or you’ve muted a phone call seem rather pointless, and there are too many audio tones to distinguish what button...

if you try to reproduce your pictures with a sepia-tone appearance.  If your picture has sharp contrasts between the blacks and the whites, you may want to tone them down slightly with a paper that is less bright or a muted white. However, if you want...

effect of the screen coating is that the screen looks less “harsh” than the iPhone 3G display. In photos, this actually makes the iPhone 3GS display look dull or muted. But to the eye, it simply looks softer--and yes, more agreeable and pleasing than the...