There's plenty of wired noise-canceling headphones out there which don't have any "smart" features at all. I'm wearing some Sennheiser PX250 headphones now; th

There's plenty of wired noise-canceling headphones out there which don't have any "smart" features at all. I'm wearing some Sennheiser PX250 headphones now; the only control is the on-off switch. You don't even have to plug it into a music source; you can just wear them and turn them on to reduce noise.