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Been using noise cancelling headphones for the last four years and they make working in a open office a lot better. I just wish people wouldn't tap on the shou
by trm42 11y ago
Been using noise cancelling headphones for the last four years and they make working in a open office a lot better.
I just wish people wouldn't tap on the shoulder when I have headphones on. It's a sign of "I'm working on something, go away".
Btw. NC-headphones are not complete solution as they can pass nearby human speech through quite clearly.
That's why the music on top of NC is great but there's times when one doesn't want to listen music and then some white noise or waterfall sounds can be really, really useful.
- peternator 11y ago"I just wish people wouldn't tap on the shoulder when I have headphones on. It's a sign of "I'm working on something, go away"." True, we have a convention that you - unless it's really important - don't tap someone on the shoulder if he/she is 'plugged in', but mention him in Slack. That way one can seriously stay focused. "Btw. NC-headphones are not complete solution as they can pass nearby human speech through quite clearly." My Bose QC20's actually filter out speech really well, only high frequencies can be heared a bit, but not enough to be distracted by imho :-)
- trm42 11y agoI'm using AKG's N60 NC's and they are much better regarding nearby high pitch speech than the older AKG models (495 and 490) but without music/white noise there may be some speech coming through.