BonaFideReviews posted an article to help readers understand the difference between noise cancelling and noise reducing headphones.
Noise-cancelling headphones use tiny microphones that identify the noise or sounds outside the headphones and then work to cancel out the sounds. Noise-reduction headphones (also known as noise-isolation headphones) reduce sound by being a barrier through which sounds cannot pass. What does all this mean? And how do these two differ?Noise Cancelling or Noise Reduction When It Comes to Headphones