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Bob Boyer

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I've taken them all. I think they help with the severity of the symptoms. So far, I've only had one bout with it and I got on the paxlovid stuff within a day. It helped a bunch, as I think the vaccines did. Symptoms gone in a day; tested negative in three days.

Pat got it at the same time, though, and didn't react at all well to the paxlovid.
 
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Don't know whether I'm just lucky or have a natural immunity but I've yet to contract Covid.
I'm not vaxxed and have no intentions of getting vaxxed.
Don't want to start a potentially polarizing debate but I'll just say that I take large doses of vitamin D everyday since that c0cksucker virus rolled in to town. That and trying to avoid people in general has probably prevented me from contracting it.
 

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Don't know whether I'm just lucky or have a natural immunity but I've yet to contract Covid... I'll just say that I take large doses of vitamin D everyday since that c0cksucker virus rolled in to town. That and trying to avoid people in general has probably prevented me from contracting it.
It was the longest before we got it - early this year. That may have helped as well as the mutations don't seem to be as powerful.

I like the avoiding people strategy as well. Our local daughter and her family along with our gang of friends is pretty much like that, too, which helps a lot. Work from home a lot unless it's a residency week where I have to be there.

That said, with my vascular issues, I need to be as careful as possible. I really don't want another of those intubation tubes down my throat again.
 

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I haven't heard the Sony's but from what I have read they are superior to the Bose....

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Cans are like everything else speaker-wise: Highly subjective and everyone's ears are different. Personally I find the Bose 'signature of sound', when having them in noise cancellation mode, to be restrictive & a touch odd vs. what Sony does. Their approaches and effect are distinctly different as isolation drivers. Moving away from sound signature, then there's the matter of build quality (for the long haul), comfort & fit. Apart from the physics of actual construction (build quality), comfort & fit are also highly subjective.

Sony's IMHO are just a good balance of ALL the key attributes and when obtained on sale, are a good "price of admission" option for stellar noise cancellation (when needed) and everything else they offer. Since the XM4's are still around in abundance, a sale price of $199 is a good value proposition. WAY better than than the original MSRP of $349... which I would never spend on wireless cans - regardless of brand.
 
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Just curious - what's the advantage of the noise cancelling feature when listening in a quiet environment (your home)? I'm using Beyer DT 880 Pros, which I guess are decidedly old-school without noise cancelling.
Simple answer to that is - not much :D

I have about 40 pairs of headphones but none of them have ANC.
Some are closed-back which obviously block out a lot of external noise but are no comparison to ANC.
But my end-user requirement for an ANC headphone is very specifically to first be effective at blocking out noise, even without using them to listen to music with at the same time and secondly, to listen to music with and without ANC activated.
So the ANC feature for me at least has to be class-leading.

I decided they would be a good investment to avoid noise from irritating neighbours, especially ones with power-washers. Christ on a bike that noise as akin to fingernails being dragged accross a blackboard afaiac. Arrrg. All my neighbours seem to have and use them on a regular basis. Bigger arrrrg. They should be fkg banned outright as an environmental noise polluter.

I tried the ANC briefly with the Sony Xm4's and wasn't impressed but I think I set my expectations too high and compared them to the almost zen-like silence that my professional, moulded-to-my-ear canal noise-defenders gives. I don't use those much becasue I just don't like things sticking in my lugholes.

I suppose if you wanted to achieve the darkest noisefloor possible then you could activate ANC when listening to music in an already quiet environment, when you're listening to ambient music and don't want to hear bird noises etc...or b@stard neighbours with power-washers :D
 

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Simple answer to that is - not much :D
I decided they would be a good investment to avoid noise from irritating neighbours, especially ones with power-washers. Christ on a bike that noise as akin to fingernails being dragged accross a blackboard afaiac. Arrrg. All my neighbours seem to have and use them on a regular basis. Bigger arrrrg. They should be fkg banned outright as an environmental noise polluter.
You probably will be happy not having me as a neighbour....



(Thank god we haven't any neighbours nearby...)
 
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Just curious - what's the advantage of the noise cancelling feature when listening in a quiet environment (your home)? I'm using Beyer DT 880 Pros, which I guess are decidedly old-school without noise cancelling.
As what Chris already said...

Not much.

Those Beyers you are using are excellent headphones, and to be honest most of the "Noise Cancelling" stuff is hipster shit.

I'm using some of that hipster shit (Bluetooth, ANC, etc...) to evaluate most of the productions we've done, and to have an idea how it will sound by the target group we focus on.

As mentioned before; The choice of a good pair of cans are just a matter of taste and to what your ears like the most.
 
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