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Re:What I Know About Being Sick at Work (2018) by jchw on Sunday July 21, 2019 @12:30PM (#20492098)
Of course it will affect air pressure, but in theory it should be literally cancelling the sound waves. All the literature I can find at a cursory glance suggests ANC headphones are better for your hearing.
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Re:What I Know About Being Sick at Work (2018) by sokoloff on Sunday July 21, 2019 @12:40PM (#20492157)
ANC isn’t perfect. ANC leaves a noticeable low level of noise from imperfect sensing, processing, and cancellation. It’s quite easy to imagine that this could be detrimental (as compared to passive noise canceling).

It’s probably not as good for your hearing as an equivalent level of passive NR. When I fly long trips, I notice that my hearing is slightly impaired for a day or so. There could be a lot of confounding factors there, of course.

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Re:What I Know About Being Sick at Work (2018) by wool_gather on Sunday July 21, 2019 @01:46PM (#20492565)
> leaves a noticeable low level of noise

That's not added sound, though, that's a portion of the original sound that just didn't get cancelled.

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Re:What I Know About Being Sick at Work (2018) by sokoloff on Sunday July 21, 2019 @02:28PM (#20492848)
The likelihood that it’s 100.0% original sound and 0.0% imperfect opposing waves is extraordinarily low.
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