On Noise Cancelling

When you want to program in complete silence without being disturbed by surrounding noise.

Brown Noise #

Before you start looking into buying headphones, you should try listening to brown noise. Even, if you don’t have noise cancelling headphones, listening to low frequency brown noise blocks out a fair amount of ambient noise. Give it a try. It’s free.

Noise Cancelling #

I don’t have any experience with active noise cancelling headphones, so I can’t talk about that. But, Passive noise cancelling works without batteries and doesn’t require an audio signal to block noise. However, there are passive ear muffs, which have an audio-jack, through which you can mix in brown noise to eliminate more sound from the surroundings.

🔥 HOT TIP🔥 #

There are Bluetooth audio adapters, which you can plug into any audio jack to make it able to receive audio signals via Bluetooth.

I use passive noise cancelling ear muffs with an audio-jack. I like these, because they aren’t really designed for “office use” but rather for the real world like construction sides, shooting ranges and military applications. You can expect high build quality and reliability. Also they’re cheaper. At first they’re super uncomfortable as they fit really tight on the head and ears. You’ll get used to it however after some time. I usually use mine with brown noise or some low frequency droning ambient music.