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Green_cost_green t1_j2evrmp wrote

It’s really just passive sound isolation. A good quality headphone will clamp around your ears to create a seal where no air can escape, therefore, no sound leakage in or out. Because that happens, the ambient noises you’re used to with open backs, have been cut out and now it’s closer to a “silence”. Since you were so used to ambient/background noise leaking in with the open headphones, it can be a bit strange to hear “nothing” now that you have a seal around your ears!

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Fearless-Physics OP t1_j2ew268 wrote

Thanks very much!

In case you use closed-end headphones: Do you typically take them off while not listening to anything? Or does that silence not bother you at all?

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Green_cost_green t1_j2ewlv4 wrote

It really depends on what I’m doin! If I’m at my computer or something I’ll just keep them on. I’ve gotten used to the lack of sound over the years. It was really jarring the first time I used Active Noise cancelling so the passive of closed backs really worked for me whenever I needed quick isolation.

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sshoihet t1_j2fvsna wrote

I wear earplugs all day in the shop at work and ANC headphones/earbuds in the office, even when I'm not listening to music. I like the quiet, it's shocking just how noisy the office is even when no one else is there, with the sound if the lights, HVAC and computers. Even at home there's a lot of noise that I can hear through my open backs at low volume.

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