Berabouman

Thanks for all the suggestions and comments! I'm going to try my earplugs once again (and put them deep inside this time) with some earphones I borrowed from my Dad as well. If those don't work then I think it would be time to start looking into everything mentioned here

Hello everyone. First of all, let me start of by saying that I am not a headphone enthusiastic of any kind (though I appreciate good music and audio quality like anyone else!) My problem stems from the very loud construction work being carried on outside my house (it's the construction of the Farrer Road MRT) I work from home and I occasionally have clients in other countries, so I end up sleeping in the day quite often. Due to the construction noise, I am unable to get a good night's sleep I originally used some store-bought earplugs (the foam rubber kind) but they haven't proved to be very useful - the noise is just too loud and constant. I was told by a friend of mine that high-quality earphones might be the answer to my problems, so I thought I would ask the experts here what they would recommend. My budget is around $100-200 dollars, and of course noise cancelling would be the first priority in the purchase of any earphones. I don't actually plan to listen to any music with them (I want to sleep!) but if they doubled up as good earphones for my computer, that would be a great bonus. I've heard that Sennheiser is good and within my budget range, but since I know next to nothing about earphones I thought of asking here first. Can anyone help? It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!