Peter Spikings wrote:
Hi all,

I'd like to start listening to music at work but sometimes it can get
pretty quiet and I don't want to disturb anyone else. I've looked into
it and seen that you can get headphones which attempt to cancel out
noise but they stop external sound getting in and don't seem to try and
stop their own generated sound from getting out, what I want is pretty
much the reverse, i.e. I want to avoid disturbing others around me but
want to know when someone comes up behind me and starts talking

Any suggestions?

TIA,

Peter.

Peter,
What you will need to do is buy headphones which are what are called
"closed designed" which means they let less sound out of the headphones
than the more common "open design" h'phones. The only draw back to
closed is that they generally don't sound as good as the open type so
you might have to spend a bit more to get the quality up a bit. I would
suggest you look at Sennheiser as they do a massive range of all types
of h'phones and you don't generally get crap sound with any of them.
hope this is of help.
Borosteve.