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My Bose Quiet Comfort 20 in-ears are excellent for machine noises like air conditioners in server rooms or traffic drone but terrible for voices or radio.
by dsq 9y ago
My Bose Quiet Comfort 20 in-ears are excellent for machine noises like air conditioners in server rooms or traffic drone but terrible for voices or radio.
- threeseed 9y agoNot sure why this was downvoted. They basically don't work at all for voices.
- andyjohnson0 9y agoActive noise cancellation generally works best for consistent background noise. Sound that changes rapidly, like human voices, will be difficult for the cancellation hardware to react to, and headphones that provide sound isolation may be more help. See https://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-noise-cancelling-headphone-that-can-cancel-human-voice https://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-noise-cancelling-headphone-....
- magduf 9y agoI have headphones which provide sound isolation, as well as noise cancellation: Sennheiser PXC-450. In a room with a noisy server cabinet, I can actually hear people talking better with my headphones and NC on than without. The headphones cancel much of the fan noise, to a greater dB level than the isolation from the headphones attenuates the voices.
- eeZah7Ux 9y agoYes, and that makes things even worse. A constant background noise is unpleasant but not so distracting - and it gets filtered out. Sudden voices are way more distracting and they don't get filtered out. On the contrary, they stand out even more once machine noises are filtered out.