So people really listen to white noise?

[xnothingpoetic]

While walking form metra station to Adams st. I hear a foreign noise apart from all of the footsteps and talking. I turn my head and see a man with his BOSE in-ears and I can hear the white noise coming from them.

If he is trying to block out city noise, Earplugs and IEMs/music work quite nicely and don't give you headaches.

Perhaps it was pink noise and he was burning the BOSE in-ears in?

I just found it odd and decided to share the oddness with you.

 

[nick20]

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Originally Posted by xnothingpoetic /img/forum/go_quote.gif While walking form metra station to Adams st. I hear a foreign noise apart from all of the footsteps and talking. I turn my head and see a man with his BOSE in-ears and I can hear the white noise coming from them. If he is trying to block out city noise, Earplugs and IEMs/music work quite nicely and don't give you headaches. Perhaps it was pink noise and he was burning the BOSE in-ears in? I just found it odd and decided to share the oddness with you.

While I probably couldn't listen to pink noise at normal listening levels, white noise is a LOT quieter/less harsh sounding.

I actually play pink noise sometimes at bed time, because it's very peaceful and relaxing (sounds like a waterfall [to me at least]) to listen through my headphones (in my Sony bag, not actually around my head)

To each his own though..

 

[jilgiljongiljing]

But it mustve been pretty loud if you had to hear IEMs from the outside in a noisy environment. :|

 

[nick20]

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Originally Posted by jilgiljongiljing /img/forum/go_quote.gif But it mustve been pretty loud if you had to hear IEMs from the outside in a noisy environment. :|

Now that I think of it, playing pink noise at any relatively normal listening level is harsh on your hearing, unless you have trouble hearing. I listen to mine in it's pleather headphone "bag" Sony provided, across the room.

 

[xnothingpoetic]

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Originally Posted by jilgiljongiljing /img/forum/go_quote.gif But it mustve been pretty loud if you had to hear IEMs from the outside in a noisy environment. :|

BOSE in-ears are not true IEMs. By the looks of them, they have an opened back and probably don't isolate very well.

You can notice the screened back in this photo.

 

[mofonyx]

hmm, could it be sound from the active noise cancellation?

 

[Quaddy]

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Originally Posted by xnothingpoetic /img/forum/go_quote.gif While walking form metra station to Adams st. I hear a foreign noise apart from all of the footsteps and talking. I turn my head and see a man with his BOSE in-ears and I can hear the white noise coming from them. If he is trying to block out city noise, Earplugs and IEMs/music work quite nicely and don't give you headaches. Perhaps it was pink noise and he was burning the BOSE in-ears in? I just found it odd and decided to share the oddness with you.

OMG - i think you walked by the only other being on the planet (apart from me) that listens to Whitehouse.

 

[Thelonious Monk]

i listen to white noise before bed. it helps tinnitus and is very soothing.

 

[MonolithTMA]

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Originally Posted by Thelonious Monk /img/forum/go_quote.gif i listen to white noise before bed. it helps tinnitus and is very soothing.

I listen to white noise while I sleep, but from a speaker, not from headphones.

 

[Veniogenesis]

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Originally Posted by xnothingpoetic /img/forum/go_quote.gif While walking form metra station to Adams st. I hear a foreign noise apart from all of the footsteps and talking. I turn my head and see a man with his BOSE in-ears and I can hear the white noise coming from them. I just found it odd and decided to share the oddness with you.

Perhaps he was not listening to white noise but the leaked sound seems like white noise to people in the vicinity.
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Originally Posted by xnothingpoetic /img/forum/go_quote.gif BOSE in-ears are not true IEMs. By the looks of them, they have an opened back and probably don't isolate very well.

Yes, they're not supposed to isolate at all.
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Originally Posted by mofonyx /img/forum/go_quote.gif hmm, could it be sound from the active noise cancellation?

No, not quite. There is no noise cancellation on those IEMs.

 

[amphead]

Maybe the HPs were made in China.

 

[xnothingpoetic]

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Originally Posted by Veniogenesis /img/forum/go_quote.gif Perhaps he was not listening to white noise but the leaked sound seems like white noise to people in the vicinity.

No, it was a static like noise. He was only maybe 5 feet away and I was near him for around 3.5 seconds and heard the same tone.

I've heard music leak before and it is obvious this was not music.

 

[Veniogenesis]

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Originally Posted by xnothingpoetic /img/forum/go_quote.gif No, it was a static like noise. He was only maybe 5 feet away and I was near him for around 3.5 seconds and heard the same tone. I've heard music leak before and it is obvious this was not music.

Haha, I see; strange indeed.

 

[Assorted]

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Originally Posted by Thelonious Monk /img/forum/go_quote.gif i listen to white noise before bed. it helps tinnitus and is very soothing.

Me too! My HD30GB9 provides just the right volume of white noise for that soothing sound.

 

[kwkarth]

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Originally Posted by xnothingpoetic /img/forum/go_quote.gif BOSE in-ears are not true IEMs. By the looks of them, they have an opened back and probably don't isolate very well. You can notice the screened back in this photo.

they don't isolate at all. They were not designed to isolate. They don't even occlude one's ear canal.