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Anyone here have experience with hearing protection in a noisy work environment? As in machine noise? Any brands that are better (or the best) to look out for? Price is not really a factor here - I’d like to pay for quality in this instance.
Hearing protection has classifications for noise reduction levels, with class 5 being the highest. So anything in each category will give the same noise reduction performance. After that, it’s just individual choice what you find more comfortable, earplugs or earmuffs. If using earplugs, they need to be inserted properly to be effective, earmuffs are less fussy. However, if it is a workplace, employer should be providing appropriate noise controls and hearing protection. If you have concerns you can look up the worksafe website to know what the requirements are.
I have a lot of experience in extreme noise environments. For your situation you’re better off just buying rubber earplugs on a cord that you can attach to your shirt so you don’t lose them. If additional protection is required just chuck some inexpensive low profile earmuffs on over that. Unless you’re in a tactical environment, you don’t really need expensive noise cancelling earmuff because you end up trashing them.
Can’t go wrong with the Sony mx-1000 range. Over ears are brilliant and long term comfortable, 10 minute charge gives you 5 hours continuous use. If your work environment requires AS over ear protection, then look at the ear bud version of the same, and wear them under your peltors.
Are they primarily for listening to music while also blocking out noise? I’m looking into them and thanks for the suggestion but just to be clear, I only really need the noise cancelling aspect / hearing protection aspect. Unless these have some additional benefit over a non-chargable set of earmuffs I’m not seeing?
[edit] oh, and the noise will be intermittent, if that helps. Like, one blast of noise every 15-30 seconds or so. Like hummm BZZT hummm BZZT, etc.
Are they primarily for listening to music while also blocking out noise
I mean yeah. I’ve also used just the noise cancellation for sleep in different environments, whilst whippersnipping etc. I’m referring to the over ears version here. I think as long as there’s a Bluetooth connection active the noise cancellation will stay working until the battery dies. If the Bluetooth connection drops, the headphones turn themselves off by default after a while. There’s a sony app that lets you change that though.
