Noisy office & Noise cancelling headphones

[trowelhead]

12TS said:

Order66 said:

No, they don't. They need noise isolation, not noise cancelling. Noise cancelling fundamentally doesn't work in an office environment with inconsistent noise.

Agree. Foam buds do the job, music is an option, the foam cuts out lots of noise.

Sitting in an office wearing ear plugs would make you look like an antisocial knob though

OP try the bose

[HotJambalaya]

Can't attest to the noise isolating ones, but have been through most of the bose ones out there.

In my mind, the Bose QC35 linked above are spectacular. I've had the QC15s and the QC20s and these are amazing. I couldnt hear a person in the same room talking to me at all. I assume a busy office has a fairly consistent drone too, so I'd be amazed if they didn't work well there also.

I think bose offer 30 day money back offers, so get them direct from Bose and try them out for yourself.

[GrizzlyBear]

S11Steve said:

I've recently moved from my own "bunker" to an open plan office, and the background noise is killing me! I'm sat on the edge of a sales team so phones are constantly ringing and lots of loud voices going on coupled with high ceilings and bad acoustics, , it is not ideal for a lot of the analytical type of work I do.

At the moment there isn't an option to get back into a space of my own, so I'm wondering if NCH would be a possible solution - but I've never used them, and not sure how they work, or if they even are a solution.

I'd also prefer something in-ear rather than a set of big DJ cans.

Any advice please?

Interesting, this sounds very familiar - I am in a similar position, worked in loads of places, however my current office is the nosiest & most annoying I have ever worked in. It is all down to two people, this is a professional office, but they insist on having a radio on (their musical choice of course), as mentioned there is the usual phones ringing which is not a big problem, but one of them will happily make speaker phone calls, they also have loud conversations across the office - work related stuff obviously; the gym last night, how they cooked their evening meal.

I must admit I started to think up solutions, initially some adhesive tape sprung to mind, but I decided that might be detrimental to my career, so I have just decided I might move companies!

Anyway, please let me know what you end up buying, and how it works out, in case they manage to convince me to stay. As I really need a solution, as all the noise is detrimental to my productivity, exhausting and quite stressful.

[JonChalk]

After 2 Bose QC's got returned for different quality issues, I bought these over a year ago for exactly the same situation.

https://www.sony.co.uk/electronics/headband-headph...

Cheaper, better sound quality (for my ears anyway & especially when paired with a HiRes Walkman), solid build quality.

I don't have the music up loud, but regularly colleagues have to give me a nudge because i don't hear them approach & talk to me.

[anonymous-user]

After a similar thread I started, I bought a Plantronics Voyager Focus UC. Simply awesome, and amazing call quality.

[Durzel]

trowelhead said:

Sitting in an office wearing ear plugs would make you look like an antisocial knob though

OP try the bose

Yeah, don't think it would look particularly professional to have proper headphones on in an office, but in-ear ones are discreet enough.