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Noise canceling headphones don't really work that way in my experience. They're good at canceling out droning background sounds to make the overall sound quiete
by draw_down 9y ago
Noise canceling headphones don't really work that way in my experience. They're good at canceling out droning background sounds to make the overall sound quieter, but they can't "predict" and cancel out less repetitive/droning sounds sounds like conversations and those godawful clacky keyboards some people insist on. In effect, noise canceling headphones make those sounds louder, relatively speaking, because they quiet other sounds.
- peapicker 9y agoEvery single item on the list is said tongue-in-cheek...
- georgemcbay 9y agoYeah but the progression was brilliant. Started out from "I disagree with this, but ....okay...." and then got progressively more absurd. It wasn't until #5 that I realized it was clearly satire, prior to that I figured it was one of those rationalization posts that tech CEOs make to defend these practices as somehow useful or beneficial.
- draw_down 9y agoHa! Well, you never can tell around these parts.
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- coffeeski 9y agoThey work great for constant white noise. Not people talking, which is what I thought it would reduce.
- sundvor 9y agoI've got a set of ATH-ANC9s and as a programmer I work in an extremely noisy environment (next to the phones); by themselves they do little to drop the noise, but add some music and magic happens. EDIT: I experimented with the (almost universally approved of) ATH-M50Xs but found I had to use a much louder volume to cancel out the noise, which causing ringing, so using NC is pretty much saving my hearing. Not sure how I could work here without them.