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What are your recommendations for dealing with noisy roommates/hallmates? There have been nights where I had to put on my ANC headphones to get some peace and

What are your recommendations for dealing with noisy roommates/hallmates? There have been nights where I had to put on my ANC headphones to get some peace and quiet. (I've heard a good pair of earplugs may work?)

sova 9y ago
It's strange to think you heard anything in regard to good earplugs.
deskglass 9y ago
I had success with earplugs combined with whitenoise. For white noise, you can used an air purifier, a fan, or a noise machine like https://www.marpac.com/ https://www.marpac.com/
tlarkworthy 9y ago
I have sleep mask with earphones with a rain loop playing, and sometimes I put ear buds in too. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B012YFVN90?psc=1 https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B012YFVN90?psc=1 http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=makeitrain.pack http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=makeitrain.pack
moultano 9y ago
Get a white noise machine.
- RandomInteger4 9y ago
  Something along these lines I recommend is a loud HEPA filter fan, so you get fresh air + white noise.
  - Bakary 9y ago
    Currently living in China and this is a godsend
- TeMPOraL 9y ago
  Use pink noise instead of white noise, if you can. It's less "sharp". Personally, I can't stand more than few moments of white noise, while I can listen to pink noise for hours (it reminds me of sea waves crashing into the shore).
- lozf 9y ago
  Install sox and you might not need one. See my reply up-thread for details.
Tehnix 9y ago
Earplugs take away a lot of the noise, the only thing might be that if they don't fit, i.e. are a bit too big, then they can be somewhat uncomfortable after half the night. I would definitely try that if I was you :) For reference, I'm currently using them most nights because I'm on exchange and am sharing a dorm room with another guy that snores at night -.-....
- Nition 9y ago
  In terms of comfort, if you lie on your side it sometimes works well enough to just wear one ear-plug, with your other ear on the pillow.
- collyw 9y ago
  Personally I get irritated ears if I use earplugs for a few nights in a row.
PhantomGremlin 9y ago
What are your recommendations for dealing with noisy roommates/hallmates? Try these. Cheap and can easily be reused for a week even though they are "disposable": http://www.homedepot.com/p/3M-Orange-Disposable-Earplugs-7-Pairs-per-Pack-92077-7-20DC/202080168 http://www.homedepot.com/p/3M-Orange-Disposable-Earplugs-7-P... I was forced into using them by an inconsiderate neighbor. He kept putting his dog out into the back yard very early every morning ... in response the dog would loudly whine and bark until let back in. Thankfully the dog is long gone.
- collyw 9y ago
  Throwing a cup of water over barking dogs tends to shut them up.
Hydraulix989 9y ago
Howard Leight MAX earplugs have the highest noise cancellation rating in dB that I've seen, and they were the best ones I've tried. Works for me, I live right below my landlord who has an uncarpeted wooden floor with kids, where otherwise I'd have the sound of incessant stomping upstairs as a very reliable daily alarm clock.
closeparen 9y ago
A fan. I sleep like a baby with an extremely loud fan roaring in my face, as long as the noise is consistent. Sort of like being in an airplane. Would you fall asleep with someone whispering in your ear? Earplugs can only reduce the intensity of sounds, but the distracting part is the detail/variation/information in them. Even in a quiet room, putting in earplugs guarantees I will stay awake listening to my own heartbeat and blood flow in excruciating detail. shudder. A sufficiently loud drone noise, on the other hand, drowns out any of the more variable noises that would keep me awake.
- workerIbe 9y ago
  Agreed, I contribute a good chunk of the quality of my sleep to my fan.
- lozf 9y ago
  If you have sox (free, cross platform, open source) installed, you can run e.g.: play -n synth 08:00:00 pinknoise for 8 hours of noise -- you might prefer either whitenoise or brownnoise, and maybe play around with the eq or other effect options to modulate the output if you want a little variation. If you skip the duration it'll play til you ^C.
  - lucb1e 9y ago
    Or ocean waves with sox: play -n synth brownnoise synth pinknoise mix synth sine amod 0.3 10 Via: https://askubuntu.com/a/789472/111115 https://askubuntu.com/a/789472/111115
elcapitan 9y ago
People have mentioned headphones/earphones and earplugs, but you can actually combine the two. Take in-ear earphones, take off the thin rubber plugs on their end. Cut off the earplugs to the size (or 1.5x) of those rubber plugs. Then compress the earplugs to coin-flatness, and punch a thin hole through them 2mm or so. Put them on the earphones. As with earplugs, press them before inserting, then wait a few seconds for them to decompress in your ears. I've used that in the past before I got Bose active noise cancelling phones. They work basically as good as unpunched earplugs, but you can add white noise or music or whatever on top of that. Edit: Found that (of course) someone made a video of that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0m_RseMrok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0m_RseMrok

sova 9y ago

It's strange to think you heard anything in regard to good earplugs.

deskglass 9y ago

I had success with earplugs combined with whitenoise. For white noise, you can used an air purifier, a fan, or a noise machine like https://www.marpac.com/ https://www.marpac.com/

tlarkworthy 9y ago

I have sleep mask with earphones with a rain loop playing, and sometimes I put ear buds in too. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B012YFVN90?psc=1 https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B012YFVN90?psc=1 http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=makeitrain.pack http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=makeitrain.pack

moultano 9y ago

Get a white noise machine.

RandomInteger4 9y ago
Something along these lines I recommend is a loud HEPA filter fan, so you get fresh air + white noise.
- Bakary 9y ago
  Currently living in China and this is a godsend
TeMPOraL 9y ago
Use pink noise instead of white noise, if you can. It's less "sharp". Personally, I can't stand more than few moments of white noise, while I can listen to pink noise for hours (it reminds me of sea waves crashing into the shore).
lozf 9y ago
Install sox and you might not need one. See my reply up-thread for details.

Tehnix 9y ago

Earplugs take away a lot of the noise, the only thing might be that if they don't fit, i.e. are a bit too big, then they can be somewhat uncomfortable after half the night. I would definitely try that if I was you :) For reference, I'm currently using them most nights because I'm on exchange and am sharing a dorm room with another guy that snores at night -.-....

Nition 9y ago
In terms of comfort, if you lie on your side it sometimes works well enough to just wear one ear-plug, with your other ear on the pillow.
collyw 9y ago
Personally I get irritated ears if I use earplugs for a few nights in a row.

PhantomGremlin 9y ago

What are your recommendations for dealing with noisy roommates/hallmates? Try these. Cheap and can easily be reused for a week even though they are "disposable": http://www.homedepot.com/p/3M-Orange-Disposable-Earplugs-7-Pairs-per-Pack-92077-7-20DC/202080168 http://www.homedepot.com/p/3M-Orange-Disposable-Earplugs-7-P... I was forced into using them by an inconsiderate neighbor. He kept putting his dog out into the back yard very early every morning ... in response the dog would loudly whine and bark until let back in. Thankfully the dog is long gone.

collyw 9y ago
Throwing a cup of water over barking dogs tends to shut them up.

Hydraulix989 9y ago

Howard Leight MAX earplugs have the highest noise cancellation rating in dB that I've seen, and they were the best ones I've tried. Works for me, I live right below my landlord who has an uncarpeted wooden floor with kids, where otherwise I'd have the sound of incessant stomping upstairs as a very reliable daily alarm clock.

closeparen 9y ago

A fan. I sleep like a baby with an extremely loud fan roaring in my face, as long as the noise is consistent. Sort of like being in an airplane. Would you fall asleep with someone whispering in your ear? Earplugs can only reduce the intensity of sounds, but the distracting part is the detail/variation/information in them. Even in a quiet room, putting in earplugs guarantees I will stay awake listening to my own heartbeat and blood flow in excruciating detail. shudder. A sufficiently loud drone noise, on the other hand, drowns out any of the more variable noises that would keep me awake.

workerIbe 9y ago
Agreed, I contribute a good chunk of the quality of my sleep to my fan.
lozf 9y ago
If you have sox (free, cross platform, open source) installed, you can run e.g.: play -n synth 08:00:00 pinknoise for 8 hours of noise -- you might prefer either whitenoise or brownnoise, and maybe play around with the eq or other effect options to modulate the output if you want a little variation. If you skip the duration it'll play til you ^C.
- lucb1e 9y ago
  Or ocean waves with sox: play -n synth brownnoise synth pinknoise mix synth sine amod 0.3 10 Via: https://askubuntu.com/a/789472/111115 https://askubuntu.com/a/789472/111115

elcapitan 9y ago

People have mentioned headphones/earphones and earplugs, but you can actually combine the two. Take in-ear earphones, take off the thin rubber plugs on their end. Cut off the earplugs to the size (or 1.5x) of those rubber plugs. Then compress the earplugs to coin-flatness, and punch a thin hole through them 2mm or so. Put them on the earphones. As with earplugs, press them before inserting, then wait a few seconds for them to decompress in your ears. I've used that in the past before I got Bose active noise cancelling phones. They work basically as good as unpunched earplugs, but you can add white noise or music or whatever on top of that. Edit: Found that (of course) someone made a video of that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0m_RseMrok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0m_RseMrok