How can I use ANC without it ruining my typing in a quiet home office?

[ThomasMC]

I’ve noticed something odd since using ANC in my home office, where it’s almost completely quiet. The sound of my typing suddenly feels distant, like it’s not coming from right under my fingers anymore. It’s not exactly unpleasant, but it’s distracting enough that I keep wondering whether this is just how it behaves in very quiet spaces or if there’s something I’m missing.

[Noah.J]

I just got the new wireless earbuds everyone's talking about, but I'm finding the active noise cancellation a bit overwhelming in my quiet home office. It makes my own typing sound strangely distant. Has anyone else felt this way, or maybe found a specific use case where it clicks?

[Zachary_S]

Yep, I felt it too. In a quiet home office the active noise cancellation can make your own typing sound distant and odd, like the sound is coming from somewhere else. I ended up turning it off for long sessions and kept ambient passthrough on for when I needed to hear the room.

[Abigail_J]

I found that lowering it to a light setting and using transparency for most of the day helps. I can still focus a bit but hear the keyboard and the monitor's fan.

[PatrickT]

Swapping ear tips helped me sometimes. I tried foam tips once to get a tighter seal; it improved comfort but didn't fix the weird typing sound.

[Ella18]

Have you tried toggling transparency or lowering ANC entirely to see if typing sounds come back to normal?

[Timothy14]

I notice it’s better for me in sessions with background hum, like a coffee shop or street noise outside. In a dead quiet room it feels too aggressive.

[Aaron.L]

I’ve also experimented with leaving it on and using the mic monitoring option so I can hear my own voice; that helped me not sound like I'm in a cocoon, but it didn't fix the typing sound.

[Ethan.J]

I wonder if the real problem is not the ANC but the room acoustics or the way the desk echoes. It makes it hard to tell if it’s the headset or the room.