In light of the current Sony WH-1000XM3 headphone craze, what have you guys actively noise cancelled?
Here's mine:
Plane lift-off
Plane commutes
Driving through tunnels
Having the air-con on whilst attempting to sleep
What Have You Actively Noise Cancelled?
Binsignature on 20/10/2018 - 11:17
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You OK mate?
He is fine….Just a famous line from the legendary Michael Scott
The wife's nagging
My brain comes with an automatic wife noise filter
So did mine, the control knob fell off years ago.
So what you are saying is your wife's nagging made your knob fall off?
Do you guys really not like you’re wives that much? You might want to consider moving on.
It's a standard tactic employed by most women. Rather than a suggestion or kind word about something, they resort to nagging. Moving on just means moving from one nagger to another.
Join the MGTOW movement
@AddNinja: Easy for a ninja to say. I wish I could disappear from every relationship as soon as nagging starts.
@AddNinja: I hope you're kidding. Its extraordinarily whimsical to just leave you're wife for nagging.
@AddNinja: It's not serious, just some block culture thing in Australia. Complaining about / joking about their wives.
Other than staying together for children, I'm sure most would move on or seek marriage counseling if it were really an issue.
@idonotknowwhy: I don't think nagging is a reason for divorce, just one of the usual irritations in many relationships. Anyway, it's easy to throw around the word divorce without knowing how many tens of thousands of dollars it really costs.
@AddNinja: Ninja: I am with you. There are good girls out there! And I am lucky to have one that I don’t need noise cancelling.
However, I love noise cancellation for office and the airplane!
plus they all come from the same factory, moving on is like switching from kfc to mcdonalds and expecting to lose weight.
I'm just curious what wives typically nag about? 15 years married and can count on one hand the number of times my mrs has nagged. May be I'm just the perfect husband lol
@gimme: Many things. Such as house chores, nagging about friends holidays why don't we do so as well, complain about work after maternity leave, nagging about you playing video games, wanting to buy this dress or bag, nagging about the kids etc the list goes on….
Yes if you want to lose 75% of your wealth.
Not that easy.Genuine thanks to everyone who replied and voted! I learnt a lot about Australian married guys and their humour.
The Wiggles and other similarly irritating kids music.
(Baby shark doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo anyone?)Johnny Johnny Yes Papa
TELLING LIES?? ..always
Baby shark, doot do de doo…
Tears
What is the sound pressure level of a tear?
Couldn't give an exact figure, but after so many tears it adds up
What is the flow rate of lacrimation?
@follow: Oh! Perhaps you should upgrade to higher quality textiles.
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Inexpensive fibres are known to cause eye irritation.
Noise cancelled all the annoying gym music
And Invisalign ads?
mostly office/commuter sounds, otherwise i'd have probably not gotten noise cancelling at all.
politics
Bikies
That's weird, everyone raves about this headphone. I've got it and I still hear voices in my head….
Common manufacturing fault.
common manufacturing fault
the person or the headphones?
Yes
Ever since i started using them i started buying more sony products. I think theres an ultra high frequency emitting subliminal messages.
thats what I call an eminem disorder.
Neighbours dogs.
Server room noise. Vacuum cleaner. Family watching TV while I'm studying or reading.
loud yobbos in the office
My wife. I developed "selective deafness" for good reason…
Husbands had that ability well before noise cancelling headphones
Lawn mower. I don't even have a quality pair of headphones.
I have a bit of tinnitus in my left ear - so, one downside to noise cancelling headphones is that it makes the tinnitus more pronounced as there's nothing masking it.
Interesting comment, sorry about the tinnitus, I had read / heard differing reports on this.
It related to the technology being used or mechanism for the noice cancelling active / passive etc. and the fact people don't often realise they are providing a constant SPL to their ears when using them.
My dad's played up worse with certain brands he currently has Sennheiser over ear N/C headphones and they seem to do the trick for him.
Others made him like a bear with a sore head
The Bose sleep buds are actually supposedly helpful pricey for a pair of ear buds that can only play Bose noise generation.
The most useful thing I got him was an app I downloaded a white noise generator called "My Noise" it can adjust frequencies based on external noises it's picking up through the mic on say your phone helping you remove the actual distraction, it was quite clever and works.
So if you don't mind the normal sounds around the office but there is a person thats a bit much you can drown them out.
You don't need N/C headphones for this to work either.
Have you looked at Audeara? I don't have hearing issues, but they apparently do well for those that do.
Same hear, tinnitus + some HF hearing loss in my left ear (after otitis externa, an outer ear infection). Noise cancelling (purchased the previous Sony model refurbished) doesn't worsen my tinnitis, but if I listen to music as a louder volume, often there is a wosening in tinnitus for hours afterwards. I think what is happening, if that the bad ear increases the gain to try to match the input from the opposite ear, but since the ear is damaged all that cranking uup the sensivity does is increase the ringing noise.
To be honest, you're better off getting a set of shure se535's for this. They block have a great seal which blocks out a good 30 decibels (not just constant sounds either). And being BA iems, you can listen to music at much lower volumes than the hyped ANC headphones on OzBargain, causing less hearing damage.
They have other advantages like better audio fidelity, not becoming obsolete over the years, etc.
They block have a great seal which blocks out a good 30 decibels (not just constant sounds either).
I find IEMs are good at blocking higher frequencies while ANC headphones are good at blocking lower frequencies.
On a plane, if I really want some quiet, I use foam earplugs which do an even better job at blocking higher frequencies than IEMs, and wear ANC headphones over them which knocks out the lower frequencies. It becomes just about as quiet as my bedroom.
Same hear, tinnitus + some HF hearing loss in my left ear…
As pertaining to your ears, it would seem they differently hear.
Due to the way the technology works it is repetitive noises that are cancelled; any muffling of, e.g. voices close to you, etc are due to the shape of the cups. The problem is they can make non repetitive noises appear louder because they aren't muffled by the background noises. If you want to really close out background noise then in-ear earphones are a better bet. They seal off the noise and your music plays directly into the air canal. They can be a bit hard to get comfortable but, now that I have, I find them better for long flights. I can see the kid in front of me going nuts but I can't hear him/her.
I’ll bet your child loves that.
not my kid, someone else who decided it was more important to fly Damien around the world than the comfort of a plane load of strangers.
Hello shout out to Damien”s mum who downvoted me.
You should take some liquid Xanax on your next flight.
A few drops in apple juice are undetectable to children.
really disturbing you know that.
then there is the minor point of it being illegal without the consent of the Childs GP not to mention their Parent / Guardian.
I can see how solitary confinement would be an effective form of noise cancelling………
it's a bit far to go for peace and quiet.
then there is the minor point of it being illegal without the consent of the Childs GP not to mention their Parent / Guardian.
That would depend on the laws of the country of registration of the aircraft and those of the country (if any) whose airspace you are transiting at the time.
then there is the minor point of it being illegal without the consent of the Childs GP not to mention their Parent / Guardian.
A child's GP has no role in consenting on their behalf for any medical treatment, unless it is an emergency situation and a suitable alternate decision maker cannot be located. Parents and legal guardians, however, do in general have the legal right to consent to medical treatment children under the age of medical consent ( we would generally consider this under age 14, but it depends on each specific child and if they would be considered 'mature minors') with or without the child's actual agreement. There are however specific exclusions to this like, for example procedures for permanent sterilisation.
Having said this, I am not advocating for parents to drug their children just for the sake of some peace and quiet. I'm also not a lawyer and the rules, especially with regards to substitute consent do vary between jurisdictions. Please seek your own legal advice before considering this.
@Save Medicare: Schedule 8 medicines are controlled drugs that have a high risk of abuse and addiction. They have extra legal restrictions on how they are stored, prescribed and dispensed.
So when we're talking consent only 1 Dr can prescribe at a time for a valid reason so let's change it to "convince" as they are the ones signing it off.
I'm fairly sure they were being kids isn't a valid reason, but what the heck I'm not a Lawyer or a Doctor but I do have morals.
Having said this, I am not advocating for parents to drug their children just for the sake of some peace and quiet.
Neither was I! Only an individual with a severe personality defect who never should have reproduced in the first place would ever dream of medicating their own child for such a selfish reason.
I was referring to other people's children.
You might want to look up Rohypnol. There was controversy about it being a date rape drug. Horny individals secretly spike another person's drink with it. Like Xanax it is a benzodiazepine tranquilizer (a weaker form of a barbiturate). Higher amounts prevent the formation of long term memories. If you have ever had an endoscopy, you will have been injected with a large dose of a benzodiazepine; you remain conscoius, but cannot remember the procedure.
Oh, you mean a Forget-Me-Now?
I'll pick up some next time I'm down ol' South America way.
Why do you think so many parents give their kids Phenergan?
It can some times have an opposite effect, causing the child to be hyperactive and more annoying than previously expected.
Can't agree more with this. I stopped using active noise canceling headphones years ago (still own them, and they're 3 models old so have lost their value as well).
A set of SE535's (I use SE846's but they're expensive) with these tips block out everything:
http://www.shure.com/americas/products/accessories/earphones…
Other advantage is being purely analogue, they last 10 years without needing replacement batteries or becoming obsolete due to tech advances.
Other advantage is being purely analogue, they last 10 years without needing replacement batteries or becoming obsolete due to tech advances.
You don't have to replace batteries but you have to replace the cable and tips! ;)
My car drying blower. Also great to listen to tunes while washing car.
why would you wear noise cancelling, or any, headphones while driving??
Tunnel only
I'm still confused as to why you'd wear them in a tunnel?
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@Save 50 Cent: Explain why wearing headphones is detrimental to driving in a straight line tunnel 2 seconds behind the car in front?
@Binsignature: Because you will have to put them on and take them off while driving for starters. Sorry I assumed you don’t stop before entering and after existing the tunnel. If you do, that’s even a better reason to go see a doctor.
@Save 50 Cent: Lmao, are people that terrible at handling their car they project their inabilities to other people? It's seriously not hard to use one hand to chuck the headphones on from the neck and press play and vice versa.
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Office noise