When I'm working in my basement office, here are sounds which are reduced well-enough: - People talking. - The clothes washer and dryer one room over. - Some

When I'm working in my basement office, here are sounds which are reduced well-enough: - People talking. - The clothes washer and dryer one room over. - Someone walking on the hardwood floor above me, wearing hard-soled shoes. I can't think of any noise which gets through and distracts me, shy of someone walking up to me and intentionally talking to me. When I'm on an airplane, the headphones significantly reduce engine noise. Sudden, transient noises don't seem to be a problem. If I had to make an uneducated guess, I'd say that the quality of "transient" basically implies a high-frequency component to the sound's power spectrum, which these headphones handle just fine. I can't promise that you'd consider the $300 to be well-spent, but from how you describe your environment, I suspect you'd be pretty happy with these.