Bose noise cancelling headphones........anyone have these and can ...

Rob,

As you are probably aware, I became deaf 2 years ago.

I have a cochlear implant for my left ear and I use the most powerful hearing aid made 2 years ago for my right ear. The right ear doesn't do much and what it does is always distorted but it does provide a very low level amount of high frequency hearing and gives me a little directionality of sound.

The biggest problem with any hearing device is background noises. The natural biophysics and function of a normal hearing ear reduces the effects of background noise naturally. Hearing devices don't do reduce the effects of background noise very well. That's why people who use HAs or CIs have problems hearing in public places like noisey restaurants etc. Engine noise on airplanes can be so distracting, that I traveled with my hearing devices, HA & CI, turned off. That does present safety problems as I couldn't hear the public announcements aboard airplanes.

At the advice of another CI implantee, I bought the Bose QC-15 noise cancelling headphones. I wear them while traveling. Placing the headphones over my CI and HA, I can plug into planes audio system and listen to music , movie audio, they eliminate the jet engine noise and I will hear the public announcements. I can put them on, turn them on without plugging them into anything and they cancel the engine noise BUT I will hear the public announements. I can listen to MP3 audio recordings on my Samsung cellphone, hear the music, not hear the engine noise and still hear the public announcements.

I wore them to the NASCAR track at Bristol, TN earlier this spring. We got in town around midnight Friday night. We attended the races on Saturday and Sunday. The QC-15 headphones worked so well reducing motor noise in "Thunder Valley" that I slept through 1/3 of Saturday's race. I did manage to stay awake through Sunday's Sprint Cup races!

They are expensive, they work well but I have also heard good things about Dr. Dre's but have no personal experience.

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