Ah, you are at the point little noises frustrate you - remember to keep calm and walk away if it all gets too much.
Yes I work in a open plan office too, I have support people and sales that like to yell into the phone so they can be heard J Look I have friends and myself have been down this path your are not alone. Expect to pay a few hundred dollars for peace of mind and personally it's worth it in the long run. To cut it short I ended up with 'fischer audio FA-003' can's style head phones cost me around $200 - I can crank my music up so loud and no one next to me can hear it nor can I hear them. Personally this is the way I like to operate but I can still have at a reasonable sound volume and it will drown out people completely. It's quite interesting when I take of my headphones and find people half way through a conversation with me - nicely explain I can't hear them. That is the strange thing about our office people don't understand that we programmers don't want to listen to everything around them we want to focus and concentrate on what we have to do. I have friends that have tried the Bose wireless models and thought they were ok but not perfect. There is a more expensive model above the Bose which is around $500 but the consensus is they weren't perfect either. At the end of day most of my friends are were some kind of can style headphones. The problem with a lot of these headphones is comfort. As in the earbud style nice and compact but can annoy your ears after a while, also you can find the music can bleed out and then you can become part of the problem. I found a headphone shop in Lonsdale st in melb (just up from Elizabeth st) that was very helpful and at the end of day I wasn't shopping for price I just wanted a solution. Good luck Dave. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Kirsten Greed Sent: Sunday, 23 March 2014 1:21 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: [OT] Noise cancelling earphones for a quiet programming environment? Hi All So that I can concentrate better, I am trying to filter out the mouse clicking sound from person at the desk next to me. Has anyone any tech recommendations on how to do this? Thanks Kirsten
