Mikkel Breiler wrote:
On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 13:19:30 +0100, 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?


The noise cancelling headphones we tried at a Bose shop worked very well
with long, continuous noises but failed with any short lasting, unexpected
sounds like speech. Not sure what they were like with letting the sound out
though as we both had them on...

Les

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