Chase Adams (cadams)

Blows my mind that listening to Airpods or “noise cancelling” headphones actually have three sound sources - the ambient noise, a generated inverse sound wave for that ambient noise, and the third is the sound you actually want to hear

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It's called destructive interference and it happens with all types of waves https://www.phys.uconn.edu/~gibson/Notes/Section5_2/Sec5_2.htm

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Blows my mind that listening to Airpods or “noise cancelling” headphones actually have three sound sources - the ambient noise, a generated inverse sound wave for that ambient noise, and the third is the sound you actually want to hear

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