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My low tech solution works for me. I wear an inexpensive set of musician's earplugs, then turn up the volume on the headset. Works great in the car, too.

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My medium tech solution: earplugs with holes cut in them that music plays out of, more or less. The isolation puts active noise cancellation to shame: http://graphs.headphone.com/graphCompare.php?graphType=6&gra...

Graph is of attenuation in dB: lower values are better, and positive values are worse than no blocking at all.

Still if you could do that , wear a noise silencing headphones an be in total silence(instead of music), won't it be nicer ?

Ambient noise doesn't bother me unless it exceeds a certain volume. Musician's earplugs take care of that nicely, they're nearly invisible, fit in my pocket, the nonexistent batteries never go dead, they're cheap, no worries about breaking them, there's no weight on my head, I keep several sets handy, etc.

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