Headphone and Headset

A circumaural or supraaural headphone, comprising:

• a housing comprising:
• an open end;
• and
• at least one defined dominant acoustic opening;
• an acoustically sealing earpad arranged at the open end of the housing;
• at least one microphone configured to detect noise, and arranged adjacent to, near, or in the vicinity of the dominant acoustical opening;
• an active-noise-compensation unit configured to perform an active noise compensation based on an output of the at least one microphone, and configured to generate a compensation signal;
• and
• an electro-acoustic transducer arranged inside the housing, and configured to reproduce the compensation signal;
• wherein the dominant acoustic opening is arranged within a radius of 2 cm around a midpoint of the at least one microphone;
• and
• wherein the at least one microphone is arranged such that a sound transmission time from the at least one microphone to an entrance of an ear channel of a user wearing the headphone is greater than a sound transmission time from the electro-acoustic transducer to the entrance of the ear channel.