Headphones

[wiley]

[leeson]

neverfoundthetime wrote:

Bose Quiet Comfort 15 noise cancelling headphones. Love em! Listening on a train or bus or anywhere with background noise with these makes a world of difference, that's for sure. And telephoning with them is so much better, I can actually hear the other person on the line in spite of the ambient noise around me. For men over 45, essential as we start to lose our ability to differentiate between foreground and background noise (brain function not ear function - we hear with our brains).

Best 300 bucks you can invest IMHO. Comes with a very useful carrier box so I can keep spare batteries and my mp3 player in it to and it fits nicely into my sport/work rucksack.

You keep them in your sport/work rucksack. Do you work out with them? Would they survive the sweat pouring off my brow? I have hearing loss too. I didn't even dare take the test. I am convinced part of the cause is using hearing buds at the gym so I am looking for a good pair of over the ear noise-canceling headphones that will survive my hour at the gym.

Thanks.

Bill

[neverfoundthetime]

Hi Bill. It would probably be a shame to use them while sweating heavily. You can replace the cushions but inside the ear piece there are delicate microphones which record and feed back the ambient noise for the cancellation.... probably not good.

[thereshopeyet]

After following TomN's link to the hearing frequency response test, I came across this interesting
hearing article / animation regarding hearing loss.

Hearing Loss

I do wonder if the reduced ability to hear above 12 Khz would affect ear training ability.
Just a thought.

Dermot
20Hz - 12 Khz

[tombo1230]

thereshopeyet wrote:

After following TomN's link to the hearing frequency response test, I came across this interesting
hearing article / animation regarding hearing loss.

Hearing Loss

I do wonder if the reduced ability to hear above 12 Khz would affect ear training ability.
Just a thought.

Dermot
20Hz - 12 Khz

I would think not Dermot. You may find the answer hear, sorry...... here.

Willey covered frequencies earlier in this thread.

http://www.zytrax.com/tech/audio/audio.html


Tom N.

[thereshopeyet]

Tom

That's a good link, thanks.
I just wondered if losing some of the high frequency harmonic content of sounds
would subtly affect the colour of sound, especially on sounds close to each other.
Okay.... Listen more carefully hear :dry:

Have you ever seen / listened to Neil Young's Pono Player?



Hear's :dry: another good article.

Dermot

[tombo1230]

thereshopeyet wrote:

Tom

That's a good link, thanks.
I just wondered if losing some of the high frequency harmonic content of sounds
would subtly affect the colour of sound, especially on sounds close to each other.
Okay.... Listen more carefully hear :dry:

Have you ever seen / listened to Neil Young's Pono Player?



Hear's :dry: another good article.

Dermot

He is totally correct. Couldn't agree more. Sums it up nicely at around 3 minutes.

Good find Dermot!


Tom N.

[thereshopeyet]

Nipper is keeping his head ! :dry: