The extra 20dB noise doesn't feel unnatural. The blocked ear feeling does. I
find myself trying to clear a block that isn't there, which is extremely
distracting.

Dan Luke wrote:

I don't care for ANR sets. Every one that I have tried gives me a
feeling of pressure, sort of like a blocked ear. I don't know why, it
shouldn't, but I find it very uncomfortable.

The extra 20+ db of low freq. noise doesn't give you a "feeling of
pressure?"

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