Originally Posted by
DrJohn999
The Etymotic HF-3's will arrive today. They have an app called Awareness that uses the mic in the cord to listen and feed outside sound above a settable threshold level into the phones--can it keep the screaming kids out but let me hear announcements?.
No - the kid will emit much higher db than the announcement.
First I thought the Awareness to be a cool app, but after using it for a while it's just annoying.
The HF-3 is an axcellent bud - if you insert it correctly, the SQ will be excellent and balanced and the noise isolation is topnotch.