A personal active noise reduction, ANR, device, comprising: a communication interface configured to receive a source audio stream and control signals; a driver; a microphone system; and an ANR computational architecture, comprising: a first DSP processor configured to: receive the source audio stream and signals from the microphone system, perform ANR on the source audio stream according to a set of operational parameters deployed in the first DSP processor, and output a processed audio stream to the driver; a second DSP processor configured to: generate state data in response to an analysis of at least one of the source audio stream, signals from the microphone system, and the processed audio stream; and alter the set of operational parameters on the first DSP processor; a general purpose processor operationally coupled to the first DSP processor and the second DSP processor; wherein the first DSP processor and second DSP processor share a common bus, wherein, compared to the first DSP processor, the second DSP processor is configured to provide a relatively lesser amount of performance in terms of latency, but a relatively greater amount of computational complexity, the personal ANR device being characterized in that: the general purpose processor is configured to: communicate control signals with the communication interface, process state data from the second DSP processor, and alter the set of operational parameters on the first DSP processor; and wherein the first DSP processor and second DSP processor share the common bus with which they both have access to the general purpose processor, the microphone system and the audio streams, and wherein, compared to the first and second DSP processors, the general purpose processor is configured with relatively low performance in terms of latency, but a relatively high amount of computational complexity. a communication interface configured to receive a source audio stream and control signals; a driver; a microphone system; and an ANR computational architecture, comprising: a first DSP processor configured to: receive the source audio stream and signals from the microphone system, perform ANR on the source audio stream according to a set of operational parameters deployed in the first DSP processor, and output a processed audio stream to the driver; a second DSP processor configured to: generate state data in response to an analysis of at least one of the source audio stream, signals from the microphone system, and the processed audio stream; and alter the set of operational parameters on the first DSP processor; a general purpose processor operationally coupled to the first DSP processor and the second DSP processor; a first DSP processor configured to: receive the source audio stream and signals from the microphone system, perform ANR on the source audio stream according to a set of operational parameters deployed in the first DSP processor, and output a processed audio stream to the driver; a second DSP processor configured to: generate state data in response to an analysis of at least one of the source audio stream, signals from the microphone system, and the processed audio stream; and alter the set of operational parameters on the first DSP processor; a general purpose processor operationally coupled to the first DSP processor and the second DSP processor; wherein the first DSP processor and second DSP processor share a common bus, wherein, compared to the first DSP processor, the second DSP processor is configured to provide a relatively lesser amount of performance in terms of latency, but a relatively greater amount of computational complexity, the personal ANR device being characterized in that: the general purpose processor is configured to: communicate control signals with the communication interface, process state data from the second DSP processor, and alter the set of operational parameters on the first DSP processor; and wherein the first DSP processor and second DSP processor share the common bus with which they both have access to the general purpose processor, the microphone system and the audio streams, and wherein, compared to the first and second DSP processors, the general purpose processor is configured with relatively low performance in terms of latency, but a relatively high amount of computational complexity. the general purpose processor is configured to: communicate control signals with the communication interface, process state data from the second DSP processor, and alter the set of operational parameters on the first DSP processor; and wherein the first DSP processor and second DSP processor share the common bus with which they both have access to the general purpose processor, the microphone system and the audio streams, and wherein, compared to the first and second DSP processors, the general purpose processor is configured with relatively low performance in terms of latency, but a relatively high amount of computational complexity.