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A pair of high fidelity earplugs (aka concert earplugs or filtering earplugs). You can get a good non-custom pair for $15–$40, and that’ll work well for the average person for a long time.
They’re excellent for live music, airplanes, and anytime you want the world to be quieter but still need to be able to understand speech. And for music specifically, they can bring the volume level down just enough to be safe without muffling the sound like traditional foam earplugs do. Protect your hearing, kids!
I got some of these and they are excellent
Comfy enough to use for sleeping?
You can buy earplugs made specifically for this purpose that stick out less so you can lie down
I'm sure you could with these, but I would advise against it because smoke alarms.
Just went to my first concert with a pair of these and I highly recommend. Not having a headache and ringing ears the next day was really nice.
I know it’s way more expensive, but the last gig I went to, I used my AirPods Pro in transparency mode, and it reduced the sound down from an insane ~110db to peaks of 90! Definitely worth protecting your ears.
Yeah, I can't stand losing the high frequencies and overall feel of the music with "musician's" earplugs. How anyone other than a drummer plays with them and is satisfied is beyond me. I have some Etymotics just sitting here.
It gives a live read-out of the data in the ‘noise’ app on the Apple Watch. Not sure if that functionality exists without the watch, though!
Edit: not the most scientific measurement, so apologies if my original comment was misleading
I didn't even know this existed. I really suffer in places with too much background noise.
For anyone reading this, I definitely recommend Earasers. I have spent the better part of my life around really loud music things, especially because of my job. These things work wonders and are incredibly comfortable and low profile
I have done this same thing. My hearing is a bit hypersensitive and these kinds of headphones have helped me in many different, loud situations!
Went to my first concert recently—I loved it, but immediately knew I should have bought a pair of these.
I’ve been using my AirPods Pro 2 at races. They seem to work exceptionally well with noise cancellation on.
Even regular earplugs at a loud concert work amazingly well for me. I can still hear conversation (people yelling over the music) but the deafening volume of the concert is brought down to acceptable levels.
I don't understand why concerts are so loud. They're just...so, so fucking loud...