Method and system for providing active hearing protection

A hearing protection system comprising

• a first hearing protection device adapted for at least one of to be worn at a person's right outer ear and at least partly within said person's right ear canal and a second hearing protection device adapted for at least one of to be worn at said person's left outer ear and left ear and at least partly within said person's left ear canal, each of said hearing protection devices being adapted to provide for an acoustic attenuation of at least 10 dB averaged over an audible frequency range when worn by said person, wherein at least two spaced apart acoustic input transducers for converting ambient sound into input audio signals are provided,
• an analyzer unit for assigning, by analyzing phases of said input audio signals, angular directions to said input signals and for permanently determining noise directions by searching, by analyzing levels of said input audio signals, over all angular directions around said person for angular directions having a noise source from which noise impinges on said hearing protection devices, wherein an angular direction is judged to be a noise direction by said analyzer unit if input audio signals from that direction fulfil a predefined input sound level condition;
• an audio signal processing unit for processing, in order to produce processed audio signals, said input audio signals in such a manner that levels of processed audio signals resulting from input audio signals from said noise direction(s) are reduced, relative to processed audio signals resulting from input audio signals from other angular directions, in order to comply with a predefined output sound level condition;
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• at least one acoustic output transducer for converting said processed audio signals into sound for being received by said person's ears.