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Can't wear ANC headphones for long, weird feeling (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by PrivyPaul@alien.top to c/headphones@hi-fi.community

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Hi,

I don't know if its just my imagination or can active noise-canceling actually be felt in your ears? Like I get they cancel out soundwaves but it leaves a kind of pressure behind. After some time it stresses me out more than actual noise from traffic. Is this placebo or a real thing?

It feels like when you go on a airplane and your ears close because of the altitude switch, and I get the same reflex of trying to yawn to make it go away

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[–] Thommyknocker@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Had this for the first hour or so. It's an odd filling of pressure or being floaty. Then I used them in the yard and being able to focus on something else entirely distracted me from the feeling and now I don't get it anymore. I still absolutely cannot stand how quiet it is without music playing though.

I think it's because the headphones cannot cancel out the pressure waves 100% or something so pressure is still hitting your ear but it is outside your range of hearing so you can still feel it just can't hear it.