Something that wouldn't have been obvious (at least to anyone that doesn't own one of these particular milk machines) is that the noisiest bit is actually the irritating ear-splitting beep-beep-beep that it uses to let you know it's finished (I'm so tempted to cut the wires to the buzzer as it does a better job of waking the household than the fire alarms do!).
In the room next door, the Airpod Pro's did effectively cut out the noise. I'm not sure how well they work at cutting out Nespresso noises, but I may give this a go tomorrow and let you know.
Ha, sounds like the kind of beep beep diggers make when reversing.
Suddenly had some very loud construction banging from next door this morning, but didn’t get the Sonys on in time before it stopped - irritatingly they don’t seem to have done very much work since I got these (after nearly 3 years of non-stop noise) - Sod’s law, eh?
Having tried them again extensively yesterday I am now pretty certain I could make the ANC and SQ work for me. Comfort is an issue though, and I’m not sure how much the over padded bit at the top of the headband will ‘bed-in’ over time...
Your AirPods comment has me looking at those and the Sony WF-1000XM3 as alternatives to these, though - if I could get ANC/SQ almost as good with better comfort I might be onto a winner. I was considering passive isolation this morning until that big loud low frequency banging started up - I can’t see any passive NC dealing with that amount of bass frequency, tbh.