Seconded. I wear my Shure 425s with foam plugs most of my waking hours,
they are excellent at blocking outside noise and sound pretty good to boot.
On 9/23/2015 11:02 AM, Eric Rogers wrote:
I use earphones for the phone and alerts function, and because they are
noise cancelling, they lower the db of noise. I use Shure SE215.
Eric Rogers
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-----Original Message-----
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Bryan Holloway
Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 9:48 AM
To: Joe Greco; jim deleskie
Cc: Alex Rubenstein; NANOG
Subject: Re: Ear protection
On 9/23/15, 7:53 AM, "NANOG on behalf of Joe Greco"
<nanog-boun...@nanog.org on behalf of jgr...@ns.sol.net> wrote:
Maybe I've always listened to my music to loud and spend the bulk of
time via ssh, but I've never felt a need for hearing protection in a
DC, is this generally an issue for people?
Depends on how long and how noisy.
As I've gotten older, I find loud noise in general is less tolerable,
so I've taken to always keeping a pair of earplugs with me. It makes
being around loud music, etc., much more enjoyable.
Long term exposure to noise is widely considered to be a hazard, but
walking into an average data center for an hour once a month is
probably not that risky.
... JG
Depends on the type of "noise" too.
Datacenters generate (more or less) white noise, which is particularly
harmful long-term to the cilia in your ears because it excites all of
them all of the time. A loud datacenter is much worse than a loud rock
band, IMO.
I personally use Bose noise-canceling headphones.
