Second on the Bose headphones. I have compared with $50 noise-cancelling
headphones and this is a case of you get what you pay for.


Sarah

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Jeff Wasilko <jw-lo...@smoe.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 02:16:13PM -0600, Matt Lawrence wrote:
> > Believe it or not, this really is a technical question that is sysadmin
> > related.
> >
> > I've just started a new job where I am spending lots of time in a very
> > noisy datacenter.  Currently I wear earplugs and/or earmuffs.  I have
> tried
> > using my iPhone earbuds under the earmuffs and too much noise gets past
> for
> > them to be very useful.  So, I am looking for recommendations for noise
> > isolating earbud (with microphone) that I can use under the ugly
> earmuffs.
> > Besides listening to music while doing inventory, I need to be able to
> make
> > calls from the somewhat noisy meeting room inside the data center.
>
> I like the Bose qc15. It has a iphone-compatible mic:
>
>
> http://www.bose.com/controller?url=/shop_online/headphones/noise_cancelling_headphones/quietcomfort_15/index.jsp
>
> they're active noise-cancling headphones and they really cut out the
> datacenter noise.
>
> -j
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