+1 for the Bose gear. I wear them all the time on long flights and love them but have also used them in other environments and they are great.
The noise reduction quality is amazing. +1 also to the idea of drowning out part of the other noise. While they work well without anything even plugged in, clearly you'll lose the other distractions better if you have sounds of your own. For the same reason, I often will have the TV, or music, etc. on when I'm home alone working just to provide background noise. Otherwise, every little sound seems to be distracting. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax SQL Down Under | Web: <http://www.sqldownunder.com/> www.sqldownunder.com From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jorke Odolphi Sent: Monday, 24 March 2014 9:28 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Noise cancelling earphones for a quiet programming environment? http://worldwide.bose.com/axa/en_au/web/quietcomfort_20i/page.html I have a set of these - there is an 'active' mode that basically reduces people talking to sounding like a faint version of the "peanuts" teacher (I hope that's not too old a reference for people:) I can vouch it works amazingly well in an open office, when I have them on ppl have to wave at me to get attention - I have a mechanical keyboard and I can't hear that either - YMMV of course - if you go to the bose store they're pretty good at helping you test for your situation, especially at that price tag. I had the guy do loud sniffles for me so I could see if it worked for that: From: Kirsten Greed <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Reply-To: ozDotNet <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Date: Sunday, 23 March 2014 1:20 pm To: ozDotNet <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > 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
