I work in an office environment. We don't have cubicles, so noise travels pretty well. The sound of the keyboards around me drives me nuts. <CLACK>, <CLICK>, <CLACK> all day long. I find it very distracting, and I find it to be a really unpleasant noise.
A couple months ago I purchased some really nice Sennheiser headphones. They're just isolating, though. When I have my music turned up, they do a pretty good job of blocking out the surrounding noises (it's a dramatic improvement over the cheap pair I had before), but these keyboards are apparently the bane of my existence and still manage to make enough noise to distract me.
Now here's my question: if you had to hazard a guess, are noise-canceling headphones even going to block out the sound of keyboards? From reviews I've read, it sounds like (in general), noise-canceling headphones fare better at blocking out low, thunderous noises -- things like trains, planes, traffic, etc... I don't know where the "clicking" sound of a keyboard falls on the audio scale...
So two questions:
a) do you think a quality pair of noise-canceling headphones would block out keyboard noises? (not from my own keyboard, but from my coworkers who are 5-10 feet away) personal experiences / stories would be awesome...
b) any recommendation on a cheap ($100-ish) pair?
A couple months ago I purchased some really nice Sennheiser headphones. They're just isolating, though. When I have my music turned up, they do a pretty good job of blocking out the surrounding noises (it's a dramatic improvement over the cheap pair I had before), but these keyboards are apparently the bane of my existence and still manage to make enough noise to distract me.
Now here's my question: if you had to hazard a guess, are noise-canceling headphones even going to block out the sound of keyboards? From reviews I've read, it sounds like (in general), noise-canceling headphones fare better at blocking out low, thunderous noises -- things like trains, planes, traffic, etc... I don't know where the "clicking" sound of a keyboard falls on the audio scale...
So two questions:
a) do you think a quality pair of noise-canceling headphones would block out keyboard noises? (not from my own keyboard, but from my coworkers who are 5-10 feet away) personal experiences / stories would be awesome...
b) any recommendation on a cheap ($100-ish) pair?
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