bose have been best in class at noise cancelling forever, and their products in that space are great as ra_z said. outside of that, i don't know much, but i believe they are overpriced but will sound okay (whereas the early generations of beats were expensive AND sounded awful, but the latter has been somewhat remedied i believe)
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Originally Posted by brick
what does your first sentence mean exactly? what are you hoping to block out and what are you hoping to not block out? are you going to be listening to music, podcasts, nothing?
the headphones you linked are excellent, several people in this thread including myself own them. but they are active noise cancelling headphones that excel at cancelling out low frequencies like plane engine noise (i know lots of people who own these solely for flights and they consider them one of the best purchases ever). they are much less successful at cancelling out voices, so when you use these at the poker table with nothing playing through them, everything will feel dulled, you won't hear the A/C etc, but table voices will still be quite audible. maybe that's what you want, but i feel like if you then listen to music you'll struggle to hear much of anything of what's going on around you. try before you buy given the expense imo. maybe you just want a pair of much cheaper earbuds with no active noise cancelling, like a $50 sennheiser set.