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I use bose in-ear noise cancelling headphones with a custom spectrum of noise from mynoise.net playing which is specifically tuned to the same frequency as certain louder individuals in my office. Completely blocks it.

>>chesch+(OP)
Another vote for mynoise.net and the Android app. I haven't tried it with noise-cancelling headphones though, just some fairly good Sennheiser HD380s.

Also, the idea of you fine tuning certain individuals out is hilarious to me. Nice job on saving your sanity!

>>chesch+(OP)
I love that you tailored the noise to actual people's voices! Play track Greg from Accounting...

>>chesch+(OP)
I really need to know, do these individuals know that they've been IRL-killfiled?

>>boring+NJ1
Well none of them are/were Usenet users, so no, but yes I did inform the two most predominate offenders specifically so they know they have to get my attention in other ways when addressing me directly.

>>chesch+OQ1
"Killfile" was still being used by mailing list users, at least ten years or so ago

>>chesch+(OP)
I somehow misread your post as saying you had "in-ear, bone conduction" noise cancelling headphones. What a sight those would be.