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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Active NC works best with low-frequency, constant sounds like planes or machinery droning, they can't react quickly enough for high-frequency, transient sounds.

That said, most NC headphones also seal very well against your ears and have good passive NC in the first place, so if you're comfortable spending a bit more it may be worth it to invest in ANC headphones. If you have a shop near you you could try them out yourself.