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I need a pair of headphones! And I had to resist a powerful impulse to put HPQOTD as a subject... My multinational megacorp employer has decide it will be a magical productivity boost to move all departments into large open offices, where images from Orson Welles' The Trial[^] come to my mind. I am extremely sensitive to noise (cannot concentrate) and on bad days the first solution I think of is a decent XXL baseball bat. The second idea, to constantly walk around to remind colleagues of their acoustically pollutive behavior will soon make me the black sheep of the office floor. So I often listen to music, whale-song, ocean surf etc in my cheapo headphones. Not good enuff. I can distinguish seven conversations through the soundtrack. The "noise-cancelling" models from BOSE etc are not doing much to human noises so I think I really need something that blocks noise out mechanically. So they need to be super tight and extremely comfortable. No contradiction there eh! Cordless would be nifty but arent they often suffering from crackling etc? I would like decent sound quality but mega-hifi is not important. Suggestions, ideas, your experiences? Or even mental techniques? Thanks
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Take this opportunity to try something new :) Check out Bragi and their dash[^]. Hearables are going to be on the rise over the next few years and it might be interesting to try it. These have noise cancellation and many other features you will not get out of standard headphones. The price is $299, so it is comparable to most high quality noise cancellation headphones.
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet. The interesting thing about software is it can not reproduce, until it can.
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I need a pair of headphones! And I had to resist a powerful impulse to put HPQOTD as a subject... My multinational megacorp employer has decide it will be a magical productivity boost to move all departments into large open offices, where images from Orson Welles' The Trial[^] come to my mind. I am extremely sensitive to noise (cannot concentrate) and on bad days the first solution I think of is a decent XXL baseball bat. The second idea, to constantly walk around to remind colleagues of their acoustically pollutive behavior will soon make me the black sheep of the office floor. So I often listen to music, whale-song, ocean surf etc in my cheapo headphones. Not good enuff. I can distinguish seven conversations through the soundtrack. The "noise-cancelling" models from BOSE etc are not doing much to human noises so I think I really need something that blocks noise out mechanically. So they need to be super tight and extremely comfortable. No contradiction there eh! Cordless would be nifty but arent they often suffering from crackling etc? I would like decent sound quality but mega-hifi is not important. Suggestions, ideas, your experiences? Or even mental techniques? Thanks
Life is too shor
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Take this opportunity to try something new :) Check out Bragi and their dash[^]. Hearables are going to be on the rise over the next few years and it might be interesting to try it. These have noise cancellation and many other features you will not get out of standard headphones. The price is $299, so it is comparable to most high quality noise cancellation headphones.
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet. The interesting thing about software is it can not reproduce, until it can.
I see nothing about noise cancelling for The Dash. Also, I refuse to buy anything with accessories like The Leash and The Clip. They somehow out-pretentious Apple...
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:
If you ask your stewardess, she'll give you one for free. It only costs you an airline ticket.
Not on Delta. They charge $2! Marc
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My standard about sound quality: M-Audio HDH-50 High Definition Headphones[^]
it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.
Yeah, but how much do they cost in real money? :-\
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Yeah, but how much do they cost in real money? :-\
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
170 canadian pesos should be like 130 US or something like that :) hmm they seem to be more expensive on the US amazon: Amazon.com: M-Audio HDH-50 High Definition Professional Studio Monitor Headphones: Musical Instruments[^]
it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.
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170 canadian pesos should be like 130 US or something like that :) hmm they seem to be more expensive on the US amazon: Amazon.com: M-Audio HDH-50 High Definition Professional Studio Monitor Headphones: Musical Instruments[^]
it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.
And this, my friend, is how even a basic understanding of international economics can prove that Amazon's pricing algorithm is evil.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:
If you ask your stewardess, she'll give you one for free. It only costs you an airline ticket.
Not on Delta. They charge $2! Marc
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I see nothing about noise cancelling for The Dash. Also, I refuse to buy anything with accessories like The Leash and The Clip. They somehow out-pretentious Apple...
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
Then you did not look very well. I believe they branded it "Audio Transparency" (sort of the reverse concept, but it does cancellation as well). You need only click the link and read about it. The link is on the picture with the girl on a bicycle. Master Volume & Audio Transparency – Bragi Support Center[^]
Colin Mullikin wrote:
Also, I refuse to buy anything with accessories like The Leash and The Clip. They somehow out-pretentious Apple...
Then don't. I was making a suggestion to try something new. If you are hung up in how they brand things, in general I am guessing "new" things are not for you. FYI, the marketer of Bragi was the marketer of Beats, which is now owned by Apple. Yes, they brand things. They have to espeacially with "Hearables" (aka Hearing Aids). There is a stigmata with assisted hearing devices. By rebranding it all we can change that and honestly the world. So many people have poor hearing and would benefit from Hearing Aids but are embarressed. Morever, so many people could simply benefit from hearing enhancement. Hearing is part of life and enhancing it enhances your life. I guess my point is, you shouldn't get too hung up in branding. That is just marketing. Look at the actually functionality and effectiveness of devices. I could careless if it is called poostick. If it does what I need, I am interested.
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet. The interesting thing about software is it can not reproduce, until it can.
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I need a pair of headphones! And I had to resist a powerful impulse to put HPQOTD as a subject... My multinational megacorp employer has decide it will be a magical productivity boost to move all departments into large open offices, where images from Orson Welles' The Trial[^] come to my mind. I am extremely sensitive to noise (cannot concentrate) and on bad days the first solution I think of is a decent XXL baseball bat. The second idea, to constantly walk around to remind colleagues of their acoustically pollutive behavior will soon make me the black sheep of the office floor. So I often listen to music, whale-song, ocean surf etc in my cheapo headphones. Not good enuff. I can distinguish seven conversations through the soundtrack. The "noise-cancelling" models from BOSE etc are not doing much to human noises so I think I really need something that blocks noise out mechanically. So they need to be super tight and extremely comfortable. No contradiction there eh! Cordless would be nifty but arent they often suffering from crackling etc? I would like decent sound quality but mega-hifi is not important. Suggestions, ideas, your experiences? Or even mental techniques? Thanks
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I use a Sennheiser wireless headphone[^] and really like them. They make several styles to suit.
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No thank you on the pink noise. I had to look this up and I had to listen to a few samples, and that kind of noise would make me commit suicide.
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And this, my friend, is how even a basic understanding of international economics can prove that Amazon's pricing algorithm is evil.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Then you did not look very well. I believe they branded it "Audio Transparency" (sort of the reverse concept, but it does cancellation as well). You need only click the link and read about it. The link is on the picture with the girl on a bicycle. Master Volume & Audio Transparency – Bragi Support Center[^]
Colin Mullikin wrote:
Also, I refuse to buy anything with accessories like The Leash and The Clip. They somehow out-pretentious Apple...
Then don't. I was making a suggestion to try something new. If you are hung up in how they brand things, in general I am guessing "new" things are not for you. FYI, the marketer of Bragi was the marketer of Beats, which is now owned by Apple. Yes, they brand things. They have to espeacially with "Hearables" (aka Hearing Aids). There is a stigmata with assisted hearing devices. By rebranding it all we can change that and honestly the world. So many people have poor hearing and would benefit from Hearing Aids but are embarressed. Morever, so many people could simply benefit from hearing enhancement. Hearing is part of life and enhancing it enhances your life. I guess my point is, you shouldn't get too hung up in branding. That is just marketing. Look at the actually functionality and effectiveness of devices. I could careless if it is called poostick. If it does what I need, I am interested.
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet. The interesting thing about software is it can not reproduce, until it can.
N_tro_P wrote:
I believe they branded it "Audio Transparency" (sort of the reverse concept, but it does cancellation as well).
Renaming something that is an accepted industry term doesn't exactly help their pretentiousness (and is sometimes done to hide a sub-par feature), but I accept that they do seem to have some form of noise cancellation.
N_tro_P wrote:
FYI, the marketer of Bragi was the marketer of Beats
Hopefully this relationship doesn't extend to the quality of their products. My aversion to the branding is more to the use of "The" in front of everything, which may be related to my natural aversion to using "The" due to my close proximity to "The" Ohio State University. X|
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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I use these[^] for music in my office, but they aren't really a good suggestion for OP, because they are open ear.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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N_tro_P wrote:
I believe they branded it "Audio Transparency" (sort of the reverse concept, but it does cancellation as well).
Renaming something that is an accepted industry term doesn't exactly help their pretentiousness (and is sometimes done to hide a sub-par feature), but I accept that they do seem to have some form of noise cancellation.
N_tro_P wrote:
FYI, the marketer of Bragi was the marketer of Beats
Hopefully this relationship doesn't extend to the quality of their products. My aversion to the branding is more to the use of "The" in front of everything, which may be related to my natural aversion to using "The" due to my close proximity to "The" Ohio State University. X|
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
Colin Mullikin wrote:
Renaming something that is an accepted industry term doesn't exactly help their pretentiousness (and is sometimes done to hide a sub-par feature), but I accept that they do seem to have some form of noise cancellation.
They had to since it is not just noise cancellation. In fact it is far superior IMO. Can your noise cancelation headphones enhance the voice of the person talking in front of you or just cancel it? The "Audio Transparency" does both.
Colin Mullikin wrote:
Hopefully this relationship doesn't extend to the quality of their products.
The relationship is pure marketing, not product as I understand it and it is over. The man left Beats to form Bragi.
Colin Mullikin wrote:
My aversion to the branding is more to the use of "The" in front of everything, which may be related to my natural aversion to using "The" due to my close proximity to "The" Ohio State University. X|
I understand what you mean, but also understand that branding is very important to the success of a product. The fact is, most people buy stuff on whims and with little to no knowledge of the details. "Oohhhh pretty. TAKE MY MONEY" I (as well as most in this community) are not typically part of that heard. This being a tech forum puts us in a bucket of different folks. Marketing may annoy us, but you should not deny its purpose and better yet try to understand how it works. That is if you want to have continual growth (career, your company etc.)
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet. The interesting thing about software is it can not reproduce, until it can.
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I need a pair of headphones! And I had to resist a powerful impulse to put HPQOTD as a subject... My multinational megacorp employer has decide it will be a magical productivity boost to move all departments into large open offices, where images from Orson Welles' The Trial[^] come to my mind. I am extremely sensitive to noise (cannot concentrate) and on bad days the first solution I think of is a decent XXL baseball bat. The second idea, to constantly walk around to remind colleagues of their acoustically pollutive behavior will soon make me the black sheep of the office floor. So I often listen to music, whale-song, ocean surf etc in my cheapo headphones. Not good enuff. I can distinguish seven conversations through the soundtrack. The "noise-cancelling" models from BOSE etc are not doing much to human noises so I think I really need something that blocks noise out mechanically. So they need to be super tight and extremely comfortable. No contradiction there eh! Cordless would be nifty but arent they often suffering from crackling etc? I would like decent sound quality but mega-hifi is not important. Suggestions, ideas, your experiences? Or even mental techniques? Thanks
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Look for headphones by professional filmmakers while shooting. Well, the sound guys...not necessarily the cameraman. The SONY MDR-7506 is popular (and $99), but anything in the MDR series would probably do. Not noise cancelling so much as very attenuating, and if you play anything through them (music, etc), they are even more so. Oh, and they're comfortable. At least I've found them so.
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Colin Mullikin wrote:
Renaming something that is an accepted industry term doesn't exactly help their pretentiousness (and is sometimes done to hide a sub-par feature), but I accept that they do seem to have some form of noise cancellation.
They had to since it is not just noise cancellation. In fact it is far superior IMO. Can your noise cancelation headphones enhance the voice of the person talking in front of you or just cancel it? The "Audio Transparency" does both.
Colin Mullikin wrote:
Hopefully this relationship doesn't extend to the quality of their products.
The relationship is pure marketing, not product as I understand it and it is over. The man left Beats to form Bragi.
Colin Mullikin wrote:
My aversion to the branding is more to the use of "The" in front of everything, which may be related to my natural aversion to using "The" due to my close proximity to "The" Ohio State University. X|
I understand what you mean, but also understand that branding is very important to the success of a product. The fact is, most people buy stuff on whims and with little to no knowledge of the details. "Oohhhh pretty. TAKE MY MONEY" I (as well as most in this community) are not typically part of that heard. This being a tech forum puts us in a bucket of different folks. Marketing may annoy us, but you should not deny its purpose and better yet try to understand how it works. That is if you want to have continual growth (career, your company etc.)
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet. The interesting thing about software is it can not reproduce, until it can.
N_tro_P wrote:
They had to since it is not just noise cancellation. In fact it is far superior IMO. Can your noise cancelation headphones enhance the voice of the person talking in front of you or just cancel it? The "Audio Transparency" does both.
After re-reading the whole page on (The?) Audio Transparency, it seems they don't actually do active noise cancellation (or at least there is no mention of it). They rely on the nature of it being an in-ear headphone to block out ambient noise, but they can, as you say, amplify that ambient noise so that you can hear it. EDIT: Another, unrelated problem I have with this thing is the battery life. Three hours is not very long, and for the application that OP (and many others responding to this thread) is looking for, probably a deal breaker.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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N_tro_P wrote:
They had to since it is not just noise cancellation. In fact it is far superior IMO. Can your noise cancelation headphones enhance the voice of the person talking in front of you or just cancel it? The "Audio Transparency" does both.
After re-reading the whole page on (The?) Audio Transparency, it seems they don't actually do active noise cancellation (or at least there is no mention of it). They rely on the nature of it being an in-ear headphone to block out ambient noise, but they can, as you say, amplify that ambient noise so that you can hear it. EDIT: Another, unrelated problem I have with this thing is the battery life. Three hours is not very long, and for the application that OP (and many others responding to this thread) is looking for, probably a deal breaker.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
Colin Mullikin wrote:
After re-reading the whole page on (The?) Audio Transparency, it seems they don't actually do active noise cancellation (or at least there is no mention of it). They rely on the nature of it being an in-ear headphone to block out ambient noise, but they can, as you say, amplify that ambient noise so that you can hear it.
Yeah I thought their description was more oriented that way, but it does noise cancelation as well. Go back to the main page where the "Audio Transparency" is. They say "Hear the world around you, or swipe to mute it". Trust me, they are cancelling the ambient sound if you set it that way. I am not sure how effective it is, but it is there. So little bit of info I haven't said yet, but I work for Starkey Hearing Technologies who recently announced a partnership with Bragi. As an an engineer who works (and plays with) hearing aids, trust me in that the noise cancellation has very little to do with being in the ear to block. There is massive engineering in the feature. In fact, here at Starkey we have different features around it even. For example, picture yourself driving down the road with your window partially open. There is a loud wind noise coming from it. The right ear is however not receiving the same wind attenuation and the signals received can be used to filter out the undesired wind noise in the left ear (and even the right but with a different filter of course). Honestly, I think most of the Noise Cancelation headphones I see are cheating. They are using over the ear headphones to reduce any filtering they in fact need to do. While it works, they end up very bulky. A small hearing aid must have the calculations of the cancellation signal much more accurate.
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet. The interesting thing about software is it can not reproduce, until it can.
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