Re: Ear protection

[Don Nightingale <donnightin () gmail com>]

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-bounces () 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-bounces () nanog org on behalf of jgreco () 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.