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by post-it 1642 days ago
Active noise canceling makes some people feel like there's a pressure difference, like when taking off in a plane. It's because the headphones block low-frequency noises better than high-frequency ones, and the brain interprets a proportional lack of low-frequency noise as a sign of pressure difference across the eardrums.

https://www.howtogeek.com/423960/why-do-noise-canceling-head...