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Can't wear ANC headphones for long, weird feeling (alien.top)
submitted 1 year 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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[–] carqui_@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

It's called cabin pressure and it's quite normal, It happens because your ears feel the muffling of the ambience too suddle so your brain thinks youre in a place with higher pressure. Some people are very sensitive to it, many others aren't. The quality of the ANC's ingeniering also matters.