Do "noise canceling" headphones also work as "hearing protection" headphones? i.e. can they protect your ears from harmful ambient sounds?
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This Sony MDR1RNC noise canceling feature are designed to reduce ambient noise and reproduce high quality sound. It reduce most of the outside noise that cannot be eliminated by just covering the ears. However, this function is effective in low frequency range like trains, airplanes, air condition noise, etc. and is not as effective for higher frequencies such as human voice. Ely
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The N-Tunes do a pretty good job of noise cancellation. They aren't "Noise Cancelling Headphones" But i believe they do the job pretty well. :)
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Not by definition. They're noise isolating headphones (it isolates only a certain amount of ambient noise via the design of the headphones allowing you to hear the music from the headphones more so than ambient noise. Keep in mind that you will still hear about 50%-90% of outside noise depending on the volume of the music).
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Noise cancelling headphones are much better at reducing steady noises than intermittent sounds like crashes. They will reduce crashes some but not dramatically.
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Mine do a great job. Obviously they aren't actual noise canceling headphones, but they doa great job in my opinion. Mine also fit snug in my ear which no doubt helps.
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I use them exclusively at home. Since they completely seal off your ears, they reduce extrernal noise, but not as well as noise cancelling headphones.
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They do if I use foam rubber in-ear noise protectors. The noise protectors cut out the ambient noise while allowing for the device to transmit the sound through your ear bones.
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Yes. I wear them to mow the lawn and I don't hear a thing but what's on my headphones. Great noise cancelling headphones.
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The active noise cancellation feature helps muffle them, but the technology is specifically designed to block out background noises. Noise isolation headphones are better suited to block out voices because they block out all frequencies instead of lower background frequencies. Voices will peirce through most noise canceling technology because our ears are trained to pick up voices in close proximity to us. Hope that was of help!
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No. These aren't "noise canceling" headphones. They are just communication/hearing headphones. I would find a noise canceling headphones if that is the purpose of your future purchase. Hope this helps!
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The headphones have both passive and active noise cancellation. There is a switch on the headphones that allows you to turn the active noise cancellation on. However, the size, shape, and insulation of the earcups also provide a bit of passive, unpowered noise cancellation. The passive noise cancellation is passable at best; it'll cover up any low-to-medium volume background noise, but you can still hear some louder things. Hope that helps.
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No, but they are in ear headphones so that helps reduce outside noise if you have a good fit.True noise cancelling headphones are a lot more expensive than these.
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They're not the actual noise canceling-type headphones which are more expensive, but I can use them on a plane and block out the noise and it does dull any outside noises A LOT so they should work just fine. Case in point: I play music to go to sleep with these headphones, and I slept through a burglar alarm going off in the apartment I was staying in (the cat set it off). I blame the headphones. Whoops...
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As most (all?) headphones with active noise cancellation, they mainly filter out low frequency noise (like traffic sound, fan sound and airplane). That means that they are not so good with filtering out speech and tv.People who want to filter out those sounds usually buy headphone with passive "mechanical" soundproof. (For example Direc Sound EX-29)
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I'm not sure if noise isolation is the same as hearing protection, but I do use them when operating my riding lawnmower and my gas chainsaw, and that sound is minimized to where I can hear and enjoy music from my ipod. When the music is not playing the sound is lessened so much that many times I have to pull out 1 plug so I can tell when the chainsaw/mower starts so I can adjust the choke to complete the start.
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They do not seem to be noise canceling. However, they do a decent job at it for non-noise canceling headphones.
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In-ear plugs would be best in this case. Neither earmuffs nor noise canceling headphones are designed to work in the speech frequency range.