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MatrixClaw
3
Nov 16, 2015
What's the isolation like on these? Been looking for a pair of IEMs for practicing along to music while playing drums, but finding ones that have a lot of isolation, aside from the Shures (which I find uncomfortable), has been difficult. Love my full-sized Beyer headphones I use in the studio, so I'm hoping these fit the bill...
KindaStoned
16
Nov 16, 2015
MatrixClawin ear head phones will never be as good as over ear headphones at noise cancelation just because of how noise isolation works it can be incorporated as well in in-ear phones but iveread that these arnt bad at isolation but there def not over-ear headphones ill link you to a vid explaining noise isolation its kinda interesting
MatrixClaw
3
Nov 16, 2015
KindaStonedIEMs can be far better than over-ear headphones at isolating sound. Thus why professional musicians use expensive molded IEMs on tour. They're often far more comfortable to wear for long amounts of time and they isolate outside sound by completely filling the ear canal and injecting sound into them. This allows for huge amounts of isolation, without degrading sound quality with noise canceling technologies. To be honest, I've never heard of or used a pair of over-ear headphones over $100 that could even come close to the isolation levels of a pair of IEMs at the same price point. This is not including noise canceling headphones, of course, as these serve a specific purpose, of which I'm not interested in. After all, I don't want to cancel the outside noise, I just want to reduce the volume of it, so that I can play along to music without having to crank it to obnoxious levels, harming my eardrums.
Noise canceling technology is great on paper, but it doesn't really work how it's supposed to in the real world. They're great at canceling constant, ambient, noise; but they are not up to snuff for dealing with transient sound, which is all drums are. Noise canceling is also a very expensive technology to do correctly. You get what you pay for when you buy these kinds of headphones and most of the less expensive offerings actually tend to add noise than actually reduce it. Not to mention, by nature, they can't ever sound as good as non-noise canceling cans can.
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