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Advice on headphones for noisy home and practicing music (self.headphones)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by baldissara to c/[email protected]

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Hey guys, I'm in a looking for an advice on how to deal with a situation.

I play digital piano which is connected to my computer so I can use it with a DAW. The problem is that I live in an apartment located in a very noisy street and it's driving me crazy whenever I try to practice anything. I have an open back headphone that has a very decent sound quality, but it doesn't provide much isolation.

So I was thinking about buying a noise-cancelling headphone for that purpose, but I fear that the noise-cancelling wouldn't work well for that kind of environment (I heard it works well for planes, which is different from traffic noise I guess?) or if I should buy a closed headphone instead.

Does anyone here have faced a similar situation before?

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[–] baldissara 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Frequent sound of cars and buses passing by, it's relatively loud given the apartment is located on the 3rd floor

[–] njinx 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A closed back headphones with a good seal should be able to block it out. If you're really concerned you could go with an IEM, maybe something from the Etymotic XR/SE line. They're made to block out sound for live performers, the real deal. The XR line is a bassier version of the SE line, but imo is still very neutral. If you do plan on going the Etymotic route then I'd definitely check out the insertion guide as you'll probably do it wrong the first time.

[–] baldissara 1 points 1 year ago

That's great, thanks for the advice!