Raguvian
1000+ Head-Fier
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I read so many different answers! Some people say it's not a big deal, but others say with open headphones you can clearly hear everything when they sit next to you.
Last month I was on vacation in Florida. One of the people I was staying with walked around with a pair of headphones that you could the lyrics too pretty clearly and loudly. Though I think its just because he had the volume up very high, I don't have any headphone experience at all so I don't know what the reality is.
Surprisingly, video reviews don't show examples of noise isolation and sound leaking. I'm not the kind of guy that blasts his volume, and I hardly ever listen to music, but a moderate volume level should do fine.
If they sit right next to you, then yeah they'll be able to hear everything, which makes the open back headphones bad for the library.
However, if your roommate is across the room from you it shouldn't be too bad.
Also, I'm not sure how easily one could show the sound leakage of the headphones. When I get my AD900's tomorrow I could attempt to do a video showing the leakage, though I'm not sure how much it'd help...