Ear protection

Wed Sep 23 23:18:24 UTC 2015

Seconded.  I wear my Shure 425s with foam plugs most of my waking hours, 
they are excellent at blocking outside noise and sound pretty good to boot.

On 9/23/2015 11:02 AM, Eric Rogers wrote:
> I use earphones for the phone and alerts function, and because they are
> noise cancelling, they lower the db of noise.  I use Shure SE215.
>
> Eric Rogers
> PDS Connect
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of Bryan Holloway
> Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 9:48 AM
> To: Joe Greco; jim deleskie
> Cc: Alex Rubenstein; NANOG
> Subject: Re: Ear protection
>
>
> On 9/23/15, 7:53 AM, "NANOG on behalf of Joe Greco"
> <nanog-bounces at nanog.org on behalf of jgreco at ns.sol.net> wrote:
>
>>> Maybe I've always listened to my music to loud and spend the bulk of
>>> time  via ssh, but I've never felt a need for hearing protection in a
>>> DC, is this  generally an issue for people?
>> Depends on how long and how noisy.
>>
>> As I've gotten older, I find loud noise in general is less tolerable,
>> so I've taken to always keeping a pair of earplugs with me.  It makes
>> being around loud music, etc., much more enjoyable.
>>
>> Long term exposure to noise is widely considered to be a hazard, but
>> walking into an average data center for an hour once a month is
>> probably not that risky.
>>
>> ... JG
>>
> Depends on the type of "noise" too.
>
> Datacenters generate (more or less) white noise, which is particularly
> harmful long-term to the cilia in your ears because it excites all of
> them all of the time. A loud datacenter is much worse than a loud rock
> band, IMO.
>
> I personally use Bose noise-canceling headphones.
>
>