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Advice on headphones for noisy home and practicing music (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by baldissara@lemmy.world to c/headphones@lemmy.film

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Hey guys, I'm in a looking for an advice on how to deal with a situation.

I play digital piano which is connected to my computer so I can use it with a DAW. The problem is that I live in an apartment located in a very noisy street and it's driving me crazy whenever I try to practice anything. I have an open back headphone that has a very decent sound quality, but it doesn't provide much isolation.

So I was thinking about buying a noise-cancelling headphone for that purpose, but I fear that the noise-cancelling wouldn't work well for that kind of environment (I heard it works well for planes, which is different from traffic noise I guess?) or if I should buy a closed headphone instead.

Does anyone here have faced a similar situation before?

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[–] Nanomerce@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would buy a closed back headphone. Something like a dt770 is relatively cheap.

Personally, I use a pair of IEMs under closed backs if I really wanna drown the world out.

[–] inpotheenveritas@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I second this - I own a pair of dt 700 pro x (dt770 refresh) I bought used for 200 bucks. These things are like gun-range ear muffs and well built.