Ear protection

Thu Sep 24 14:12:25 UTC 2015

I normally have a set of Sennheiser HD-380's or HD-280's with my laptop.
They have pretty good isolation and seem to make a pretty good difference,
also I can either hear my phone or play music with them.  When I mow the
yard I use a pair of Koss headphones that isolate almost as good as a set
of shooting muffs that I have.

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 7:18 PM, Don Nightingale <donnightin at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> 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
>> www.pdsconnect.me
>> (317) 831-3000 x200
>>
>> -----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.
>>
>>
>>
>

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