Blog #2- Sound

Whenever I am outside, I usually wear my Sony WH-1000XM2, which are Bluetooth active noise canceling headphones during my commute, or even right now. I also use my Audio Technica ATH-M50X sometimes when I'm at home. And I also use my Zolo Liberty+, true wireless Bluetooth headphones during my workout. All three of my headphones do a great job at blocking out something that I don't want; ambient noise, It's something that we hear every day in our lives. However, sometimes we don't want to hear those sounds and want to become isolated in our own music. I mostly listen to my Spotify playlists and my favorite Podcasts to drown out the outside noise. Thanks to new headphones(especially Bluetooth) technology. It makes things easier to get some jams in without outside distractions and is only getting better each year.

So I decided to go for a run at my near-by park in Bensonhurst around 8 in the morning, without my workout headphones for about half an hour. What I heard was kinda calm(since it's in the morning). I decided to list the most annoying thing to the least annoying thing in order.

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• Near-by cars driving down the block, some of them honking at each other.
• Students, running, yelling at each other and playing around one of parts of the park.
• A near-by delivery truck unloading food and milk for a middle school.
• The garage trucks doing their duties and roaring from a block or two away.
• Different groups that were playing basketball with each other.
• Old Asian people, doing Tai Chi or whatever excercise their group does, with tradtional chinese music, or a small stereo that keeps saying the numbers one through six in chinese.
• A few locals playing tennis in the handball courts.
• School Safety Officer talking about their day.
• The locals having to talk about their day and having a good time.
• Birds chirping.

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From what I heard, the majority of these are the reason why I wear headphones during my workouts. Though it's nice to know what sounds that I can hear during my run. There were things that without my headphones I could hear much better than if I had my headphones. Such as conversations and the birds chirping. Both of which are pleasant to hear. I learn that I don't always have to block every sound when I'm outside and to appreciate my hearing better. Even though my Sony headphones have a feature that allows me to hear ambient sounds while listening to my music. So I was kind of a let down when I couldn't listen to my tunes while running. Though at least, I could give my ears a little break from the beats.