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If regular noise canceling headphones are good enough while waiting on latency, they are probably good enough after that for three or more sigmas of people who
by brudgers 2y ago
If regular noise canceling headphones are good enough while waiting on latency, they are probably good enough after that for three or more sigmas of people who use noise canceling headphones for coffee shop music.
People who noise cancel coffee shop music are only a minority fraction of coffee shop patrons. And people spend only a small fraction of their lives in coffee shops.
Anyway building it is the simplest way to learn how to build it and the way to get what you want or understand its practicality or impracticality. Paying someone else to develop it is a possibility but typically naught but a logical one I’ve included for completeness.
For reference, I was gifted some AirPod pros and they handle the coffee shop reasonably well provided I have music or similar playing in them. When I want just silence, I use cheap earplugs.
- solardev 2y agoYou're right, it would probably be a niche thing. I just wish they existed so I could buy some for myself to use. I have no background in audio processing at all beyond fiddling around in Audacity a bit. It would be a cool side-project rabbit hole to dive into, though! Another user, mitchellpkt, has an open-source project doing this same thing on record audio tracks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41088865 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41088865 It's not real-time, but it's still way beyond anything I know how to do right now. Time to learn!