Ear Defence

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gropingmantis

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In the DC I work in we get provided with rubbish little foam ear plugs...they are terrible. Ok so they are great at drowning out the sound but you cant hear people talking to you and after a while they start to hurt my precious little ears.

So I have been looking around at some active noise cancelling over/on ear headphones/ear defenders. All the industrial ones I have looked at (3M/Peltor) are for loud impulse sounds like gunshots or high volume drone like aircraft or car engines. The other alternative was some Bose noise cancelling headphones that some of the guys at work use, but having tried both the QC-3 and QC-15 I found neither of them are particularly good at drowning out the full range of sounds you get in a data centre.

So what do you guys use if any? Any pointers would be very welcome.
 
I used my Peltor ones with FM radio built in combined with my Ipod and itrip when I had to spend several days in a datacentre. Not sure it'd be approved due to not being able to hear smoke alarms or similar. When VERY close or in a rack there was too much interference for FM to work but the rest of the time it was awesome.

For use on the tube I have some Goldring NS1000 noise cancelling headphones and they do make a huge difference.

The Peltor ones really are good but do squeeze your head a lot but are still comfy to wear all day.
 
morfmedia said:
Not sure it'd be approved due to not being able to hear smoke alarms or similar.
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Having heard ours, this probably wouldn't be a problem!


We're provided with foam ones, but I personally don't bother with them, even if spending the best part of a day in there.
 
People have already asked about being allowed to play music through their Bose headphones and were told it was a no no. Any idea how the Goldrings compare to the Bose headphones? The main problem I found with the Boses, especially the QC-15 over ears, was that they relied too heavily on one or the other noise cancellation. So the cancellation in the QC-3s is really good but there is no physical defence and the QC-15s are the other way round...but the passive defence isnt very good.

What I really want is something like some passive Peltors with the QC-3 electronics working on a pass through mic and speaker so it blocks out pretty much everything except for someone talking to you or alarms etc.
 
Trifid said:
We're provided with foam ones, but I personally don't bother with them, even if spending the best part of a day in there.
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The problem with this is your risking your hearing and waving any chance of compensation from the company which can't be clever.
 
The Goldring ones I bought were only 50 quid whereas the Bose are multiples of this if they are the ones I am thinking of. Really pleased with mine but think they may have been discontinued now :-(
 
I thought I posted in here, but clearly not.

We used to use the crappy little yellow foam cylinder types with the blue nylon cord connecting the two and I found them not to seal very well and uncomfortable.

We swapped them for a different style. I can't remember the name, but they are also sold under the name "Snore Calm" and they are a yellow and pink colour. They were much softer, almost like really really squishy jelly babies, were really comfortable and sealed really well but not attenuate as much around voice frequencies so talking to people was still quite easy.
 
PistolPete said:
We swapped them for a different style. I can't remember the name, but they are also sold under the name "Snore Calm" and they are a yellow and pink colour.
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They'll be Howard Leight Laser Lite. Used to wear them all the time when I was operating machinery as I can't be doing with cans over my ears.
 
We have 3M ear defenders available to use at work. Although i've never really needed to use them. Have spent a good 4-5 hours in our DC as well. I guess my ears just block out the sound. And no i'm not deaf :).
 
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