Comment by theonemind
8 hours ago
Leaf blowers and cars driving past are exactly the kind of thing that ANC works well on, a fairly constant noise. It doesn’t block out other kinds of things well. At least it always seems to go that way for me, so I can’t relate to your comment at all. My experience seems exactly the opposite and I have trouble imagining it differently for anyone else, because it works well against a constant noise kind of in the bass range.
>Leaf blowers and cars driving past are exactly the kind of thing that ANC works well on, a fairly constant noise.
I can tell you haven't heard a leaf blower in a while, if ever. The revving the operators inevitably do causes it to bounce up and down over the spectrum at completely random-seeming intervals. Punches right through ANC, windows, doors, walls.
As if that's not bad enough they pollute more than a gigantic SUV because of how much oil they burn being a two-stroke.