The problem is, for me, noise cancelling often either isn’t enough, or creates a much bigger sensory problem when I inevitably have to take the headphones off.
And the settings with a big enough loudness problem to justify noise-cancelling tend to be ones where having to turn it off is inevitable before the noise dies down (to talk to someone)… so I usually don’t bother.
Have you tried drowning it with music?
I’ve found noise-canceling + music to be pretty effective and adjusting the headphones off one ear only when I need to hear my surroundings to work decently well.
I listen to music all the time, so probably, but most of the true sensory overloads I remember were when the album I was playing already finished and I still had them on… so I suppose I’ll keep that in mind, that transitioning out of noise cancelling may be easier during music.
The problem is, for me, noise cancelling often either isn’t enough, or creates a much bigger sensory problem when I inevitably have to take the headphones off.
And the settings with a big enough loudness problem to justify noise-cancelling tend to be ones where having to turn it off is inevitable before the noise dies down (to talk to someone)… so I usually don’t bother.
Have you tried drowning it with music? I’ve found noise-canceling + music to be pretty effective and adjusting the headphones off one ear only when I need to hear my surroundings to work decently well.
I listen to music all the time, so probably, but most of the true sensory overloads I remember were when the album I was playing already finished and I still had them on… so I suppose I’ll keep that in mind, that transitioning out of noise cancelling may be easier during music.