@snacks The compactness is nice because you haven't got headphones on your neck but the downside of it is that you will drop them eventually as you keep taking them out, I really grew to hate that. One time I had to rappel down from the balcony on an outcrop below because I dropped one of my buds live... Bone conduction headphones are just there.

And if earbud ANC is enough then you just haven't had a slavic coworker yet, not to mention earbuds tend to lack in the passive noise isolation department. I ordered a pair of Dyson Zones, praying I can get him down to at least below throbbing headache level.