Save your ears for 12 dollar (Page 1 of 2)

Yeah, earplugs highly recommended.

I shall definitely try a set of those thingies...

i have those too and they are pretty comfortable. now i just need to save for the headphones

We have two pairs of these and bought them for our friends for Christmas one year. One of my friends never wore his and now he has tinnitus. :'(

I didn't realize they have a smaller size, will have to try those out!

yeah thumbs up for earplugs. i had some custom made ones that fitted exactly to my ears.. but i lost one of them being totally drunk at a party.. doh
have to get new ones

Yes! The Etymotics work well. I usually put them in when I don't like the music, when the sound system is too loud, or when the system sounds like shit and there's too much ear-damaging treble. They go in and come out easily, so I alternate between leaving them in and taking them out. They dull the music a bit, but it's worth it to be able to enjoy music for the rest of your life. If you don't have hearing damage, then you won't understand what it's like until your ears buzz every time you go to a club. I have a mild tinnitus from LCD fucking Soundsystem playing too fucking loud, it only took one bad night to push my hearing over the edge. Be careful if it's too loud or the system is badly calibrated -- your ears can be totally fucked forever because hearing damage is irreversible. Better safe than sorry!

cool, they supposedly sell them at a store 5 min away from where i live.

truer words have never been spoken

I'm a huge fan of the ordinary foam plugs that you can buy for a couple Euri. Best ones I know are the Hansaplast/Beiersdorf ones, on sale at least in DE and CH.

Talked to an audiologist about it at one point, and he told me basically all the custom-made or otherwise fancier plugs don't protect better; their only advantage is flatter frequency response and possibly better comfort. Since my goal is to give my ears maximum protection, I've stuck with the foam plugs, even though sound quality suffers a bit.

The Hansaplast plugs have around 30 dB avg. attenuation, but somewhat of a low-pass characteristic (~10 dB deviation from flat). Making plugs that have a flatter response means to reduce the attenuation at high frequencies, which is probably where one would want to have better protection. This makes me prefer the foam variant.

You mean like the throw away yellow ones? If so, they suck, most  high is gone. You don't hear too much detail, music is not really enjoyable. I would certainly recommend you a good pair of musical filters.

Yeah, hearing is precious. Thanks for bringing awareness to this issue. So many clubs/bars with shitty sound to start with then they jack up the sound to where conversation is impossible. I will carry these like I carry my MOJO.

With the ears it`s like with the CBS.
Only realising the importance of it when it`s gone.

The last time i was in the club i was standing for about 2 hours with my left ear next to the box, and had many fun.

But the day after i felt on my left ear some strange pressure, and while listening to music i had the feeling that it sounds different like the input to my right ear.

Had that problem for 5 days, and i seriously thought that the perfect function of my left ear is gone forever.

You can imagine how horror this was to me.

On the 6th day after the party i decided to visit an doctor to getting the bad facts officially.

So i went ti the doc and he only cleaned both ears and e-voila, the next day bot ears were working well

Seems that i had luck, and for sure the next party i will visit only with some of these acessoirs:

What i wanted to say with this story ?

PROTECT YOUR EARS ROBOTS !!