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Idk I used headphones? Still don't understand what the noise cancelling is for, good fitting ear tips and IEMs or closed-back over-ear headphones with good form fitting pads do the trick just as well?
Without noise cancelling, that background argument leaks through and kinda ruins your music, I mean even with noice cancelling, its still not perfect, but without it is like 10x worse.
Why are there background arguments in your place?
Regular, low-frequency sounds. I have a pair of Sennheiser Momentum 4s
which I don't recommend buying, for anyone else looking for headphones, though the ANC is pretty good
and if I'm around a fan when the ANC is flipped on, it fades in. From a listener perspective, it sounds very much like the fans are powering off. It's quite eerie
I have on more than one occasion looked over to see what had just happened to a fan and then realized that it's just the ANC.
Doesn't work as well with some other things, like speech, but it'll still tend to help them move into the background.
The downside of using headphones with ANC is that they have to have power to do their thing, since they need to do audio processing at the headphones. That means that you can't just plug something into a headphones jack and have that take care of power, the way you can with traditional headphones. Have to have batteries or be USB-powered or something.