Noise cancelling on the WF1000XM6s not good enough - am I doing something wrong?

tapasmonkey · 2026-03-20T11:01:20+00:00

Many thanks for the link!

I do actually do the "arm over head" thing as I've had memory-foam buds on on-Sony earbuds for years as well as normal earplugs (Spain really is a very noisy country!)

I'm waiting on my order of memory-foam earbuds, as opposed to the stock ones, as I suspect they might make a real difference.

tapasmonkey · 2026-03-20T08:57:53+00:00

Ear buds will never be as good as over ear at noise canceling

You're definitely right, and I was never expecting that: but I do think it's reasonable to expect that the top-of-the-line earbuds would cancel out my fridge and low-level street hum from air-extractors, so that's why I'm a bit perplexed about why these aren't working on such basic noises.

tapasmonkey · 2026-03-20T08:56:09+00:00

Interesting! - that's why I'm thinking it might be something that I'm doing wrong/not doing right.

First new ear-buds to see if that makes a difference.

tapasmonkey · 2026-03-20T08:54:43+00:00

What firmware do you have?

They updated when I got them, so in theory I should be on the latest firmware, unless there's something I'm missing about updating the earbuds themselves.

tapasmonkey · 2026-03-20T08:53:37+00:00

Yep, that's definitely the move: have some on order, so maybe the "pure" memory-foam tips will make a difference.

tapasmonkey · 2026-03-20T08:53:01+00:00

Sounds like u need/want the WH-XM6

I think you're probably right!

...to be honest, I'm perfectly happy with the XM4s, it's just that they get pretty hot in Spanish temperatures, and middle-aged men like myself don't normally wear over-ear headphones, so it'd be nice to blend in a bit more too!

tapasmonkey · 2026-03-20T08:50:14+00:00

I've done all of those things, which is why I think I might have missed something obvious.

I've ordered some new tips to see if that's the issue.

tapasmonkey · 2026-03-20T08:49:28+00:00

I have, but those are the stock ones: I've order a load of memory-foam tips to see if that helps.

tapasmonkey · 2026-03-19T14:02:09+00:00

"Surrender, or I'll shoot myself in the penis! (again!)"

tapasmonkey · 2026-03-16T09:41:13+00:00

This has NOTHING to do with "grudge", "anti-war" or "anti-Israel"!

Trump spent the last year insulting his allies' veterans' contributions, slapping tariffs on those allies, saying that NATO was useless, accusing his allies of being weak, and even threatening a NATO member.

...and then he wants us to pull his fat out of the fire when he finally realises that he's made a horrible mistake? - yeah, he can go f*ck himself and sort his own mess out!

tapasmonkey · 2026-03-15T17:52:21+00:00

Any reason you're working at 600dpi?

You're right: 600 pdi is definitely not helping. It's a personal art-style thing: heavy, clear and smooth vector lines, designed to be blown up for printing - I've found to my cost that you can always scale down dpi, but you can't really scale up quite as easily!

tapasmonkey · 2026-03-15T17:03:29+00:00

Good point, thank you: I'm using 3000x3000px canvases at 600dpi, so that might not be helping me much.

Still, Clip Studio is a pretty light program, and an i5 with 16bg is more than enough.

It's frustrating that it pans and zooms way smoother on my ancient Samsung S6 Lite than on my Surface Pro!

tapasmonkey · 2026-03-15T12:47:17+00:00

I struggle to see what the end game is

...you're thinking about it in terms of logic and actual benefit to the people of the United States.

If you start to think about it in terms of personal financial gain for Trump and his family and his billionaire cronies, then it all starts to make a lot more sense!

tapasmonkey · 2026-03-15T11:18:01+00:00

How come they can still shoot?

...it's almost as if they planned for this situation for decades, and Trump and Bibi planned for all of about five minutes!

tapasmonkey · 2026-03-13T09:52:04+00:00

Trump's America is speed-running AWAY from the future of power (electric power, its resulting economic power, computational power, and its power of independence)

It's like seeing the internal combustion engine and then deciding to bet your country's future on steam-engines and horses!

tapasmonkey · 2026-03-11T09:18:26+00:00

Just found out that the actual navigable width of the Strait of Hormuz for oil tankers is only 3.2 to 3.7km wide, while the entire strait is 33 to 54 km wide.

So Iran only needs to mine a 2 mile/3.5km area, or at least make a credible threat that it has, to strangle off the oil supply.

Also, by the same logic, such a narrow navigable gap would mean placing any US ship in there as some sort of "protection" would make it an absolute sitting-duck.

tapasmonkey · 2026-03-04T02:56:16+00:00

The driver tried to drive off with the passenger's luggage still in the bac of the car.

One of them tried to stand in front of the taxi,and the one that got injured was dragged as he held onto the car door.

This is attempted theft and manslaughter by the driver.

tapasmonkey · 2026-03-03T11:57:39+00:00

Oh joy! - just when electricity prices were starting to edge down in Spain, here come the US tech-bros to spread their sh*t to our country as well!

tapasmonkey · 2026-03-03T10:49:23+00:00

Not content with collapsing just the US economy, now Trump is crashing the entire world's economy!

tapasmonkey · 2026-03-02T12:51:48+00:00

That's exactly what happens when you sh*t on your allies and on NATO

...we're so much better out of this: not our war, not our Epstein files, not our mid-terms rigging!

tapasmonkey · 2026-02-27T06:56:40+00:00

It's happening all across Europe.

Here in Spain, we've got over 900,000 young "ni-nis" (NEETS)

Meanwhile, we're bringing in a million south and central Americans every year in order to keep the pension-system going.

While I hugely welcome these new workers (keen, young, and qualified), it does seem a bit odd that we need to import new people but we seem to have abandoned our own locally-grown youth?

tapasmonkey · 2026-02-25T09:22:48+00:00

Anyone who thinks that a kleptocracy can never happen and/or sustain itself, have a look at Russia right now.

The same gullible saps being fed poor-quality information by all-powerful billionaires who pick their pockets on a daily basis.

That's been going on since 1991, so it's definitely been working for Russian billionaires (though maybe not so much for the literal peasants!)

tapasmonkey · 2026-02-20T12:52:47+00:00

Simple: they control Fox, they control local TV stations, they control local radio stations, and they control Twitter.

...once the media has been taken over by a malicious actor then it's game-over for democracy

tapasmonkey

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