A Better Way to Cancel Noise

To me canceling headphones are only useful if I don't have a migraine. If I do have one and I try to use noise cancelling headphones, it feels like my head is spinning in circles and is about to blow up. Removing sound will for me always be better than combating noise.

Re: A Better Way to Cancel Noise

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Post by tedunangst » Sat, Sep 01, 2018, 1:38 AM UTC

The description was rather vague, but seemingly equivalent to a pair of bose headphones with the microphone extended out a few feet in the direction of noise to allow more time to calculate the antiwave?

Re: A Better Way to Cancel Noise

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Post by p1mrx » Sat, Sep 01, 2018, 1:53 AM UTC

It seems like this would require an array of microphones, plus knowledge of the user's location, mushed together into a model of the environment. Like MIMO for sound.

Re: A Better Way to Cancel Noise

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Post by raindropm » Sat, Sep 01, 2018, 2:08 AM UTC

That aside, I found that construction earmuff is quite good for blocking sound and gain focus — with just about 5% price of top noise canceling headphone in the market. It took a bit getting used to though(and took quite some times to 'stretch' the earmuff in order to make it not clamp too tight to your head, but it works quite well and very cheap alternative.

It looks derpy though so I can't wear it in the office — where I want to use it the most. :(

Re: A Better Way to Cancel Noise

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Post by tamersalama » Sat, Sep 01, 2018, 2:12 AM UTC

I hate white noise and It bugs me a lot in current office settings (theory is that my brain is trying to make sense of what's thrown at it).

Isn't anti-noise signal, in itself, a noise? Whether or not it perfectly matches the noise signal or lags behind. Wouldn't that be more patterns that the brain would try to make sense of.

Re: A Better Way to Cancel Noise

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Post by tedunangst » Sat, Sep 01, 2018, 2:16 AM UTC

tamersalama wrote: post #8

I hate white noise and It bugs me a lot in current office settings (theory is that my brain is trying to make sense of what's thrown at it). Isn't anti-noise signal, in itself, a noise? Whether or not it perfectly matches the noise signal or lags behind. Wouldn't that be more patterns that the brain would try to make sense of.