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Re:A Better Way to Cancel Noise by tamersalama on Friday August 31, 2018 @10:12PM (#17889756)
I hate white noise and It bugs me a lot in current office settings (theory is that my brain is trying to make sense of what's thrown at it).

Isn't anti-noise signal, in itself, a noise? Whether or not it perfectly matches the noise signal or lags behind. Wouldn't that be more patterns that the brain would try to make sense of.

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Re:A Better Way to Cancel Noise by anmorgan on Friday August 31, 2018 @10:30PM (#17889802)
It would not be more signal.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_interference

The goal of noise canceling is to fully use destructive wave interference to create a 0 amplitude "signal", which is no signal at all.

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Re:A Better Way to Cancel Noise by tedunangst on Friday August 31, 2018 @10:16PM (#17889767)
The point of antinoise is that the pattern is erased. The air is still.
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