Noise Cancelling Headphones and Vertigo

[glenm64]

Hi all

Lately I have started to get an occasional bout of vertigo. I have never had it before and have seen a Dr, had all the tests done that came back clear. I am trying to pin point a trigger, and am thinking it may be triggered after a long session wearing my noise cancelling headphones.

As I started to type it into the google search it came up in autofill, so others have typed it into google before.

Has anyone else experienced this, I would love to know. 

Thanks in advance

Glen

[Bengineer]

Not vertigo, but a strange head feeling and I can imagine that could lead to such an experience.

 

The sealed nature of the cups, and the additional *constant* extra air movement of the driver doing its NC work is likely the cause.

 

If you need some isolation, maybe look more toward something that has more venting and rely on the passive isolation. For example, a lot of closed backs still have a fair amount of venting, and some IEMs like those from 64 Audio use a special venting system to avoid air pressure build up.

[Kevy]

I can’t imagine vertigo being triggered by headphones at normal volumes  

 

doctors are not always the best at troubleshooting vertigo. It’s a bit of a subspecialised area. 

[glenm64]

From some of the info I have read, it is the active noise cancelling that can trigger Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo.

I have never had it before and it clears after a few days. The common thread for both bouts has been long sessions of using the headphones. The music level wasnt loud. I will see what happens, but wont be using headphones again as I wont risk another bout because it is debilitating.

 

 

[Bengineer]

An open or vented closed back headphone should be ok?