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Audio passthrough on noise cancelling headphones
CCM:
Headphones of any kind are dangerous while biking. It's an accident waiting to happen. You're an ambulance chaser, don't you know this already?
Nephasth:
--- Quote from: shmokes on August 18, 2012, 09:48:33 am ---Oh . . . we're on the common sense train. Then this seems applicable: All headphones are noise cancelling. Headphones sit on top of your ear canals and block ambient sound from entering, while also delivering sound from an audio device that drowns out ambient sound.
The point of using active noise cancelling cans is they have a microphone that would be capable of mitigating this effect by picking up ambient sounds and delivering them to your ear canals. In other words, don't be an ---uvula---.
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Turn the volume down, ---uvula---.
Riding a bike while listening to an audio book, sounds like something a yuppie would do... Don't forget your messenger bag.
shmokes:
--- Quote from: Nephasth on August 18, 2012, 01:12:21 pm ---Turn the volume down
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Noted.
Anybody here actually have experience with active noise-canceling headphones? Do they have this feature?
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: shmokes on August 18, 2012, 09:48:33 am ---Oh . . . we're on the common sense train. Then this seems applicable: All headphones are noise cancelling. Headphones sit on top of your ear canals and block ambient sound from entering, while also delivering sound from an audio device that drowns out ambient sound.
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There are headphones designed to not block most of the ambient sounds. There always have been.
As someone who has put in thousands of hours on a bike, though, I'd advise against this. It's not the noises that will be an issue. It will be your diverted attention as you actively try to ignore things so you can pay attention to the story. Biking requires enough attention as it is.
shmokes:
This may turn out to be the case. I'll be riding on a dedicated bike path, though, so I don't have to worry about getting hit by a car. I suspect that so long as I can hear decently what's going on around me that riding this path while listening to an audiobook is within my risk tolerance. Can you be more specific about the headphones you're talking about?
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