Ear safety & music

[gregative]

I always use earplugs when working but would like to be able to listen to music at the same time. Are there any earbuds out there that can cut the decibels and enjoy music at the same time. Don't want the earmuff style and needs to be water and sweat resistant. Is there such a thing?

[MMI Enterprises]

Sometimes I put earbud style phones in my ears then earmuffs over them to keep the noise out. Works but is awkward. Some old electric guitar muffs I had also worked. Modern stereo muffs I tried was a no go.... But yea, a muffless earbud/earplug would be something I would buy.

[Mathew Johnson]

Originally Posted by MMI Enterprises

Sometimes I put earbud style phones in my ears then earmuffs over them to keep the noise out. Works but is awkward. Some old electric guitar muffs I had also worked. Modern stereo muffs I tried was a no go.... But yea, a muffless earbud/earplug would be something I would buy.

We have the "work tunes" ear protection / ear muffs. They play AM / FM and the new one has a port for the IPOD / MP3 players to plug into. Sometimes we just use the earbuds with earmuffs over them as well.

[One Tough Pressure]

I use these. MOTOROKR S9 - Motorola and my phone has a 1Gb chip to store songs. They come with 3 different ear buds and one version seals very nice for me to hear music and dampen the machine noise without totaling sealing me off from the world outside.

[Joe Ortiz]

I use some sony ear buds.with an ipod.but the sound is still not blocked out.but id rather go deff listening to music.

[MMI Enterprises]

Originally Posted by NYPWC.NET

We have the "work tunes" ear protection / ear muffs. They play AM / FM and the new one has a port for the IPOD / MP3 players to plug into. Sometimes we just use the earbuds with earmuffs over them as well.

Yea I will have to check into those.. In mean time, here is an interesting site/faq about active noise cancelation:
Howstuffworks

..apparently such technology has been in use for some time in industry but we should be seeing it put to use more and more in everyday items.
I ran up on info while researching quieting my atv down but wouldn't it be a great thing to quiet down our pressure washers?


ps- getting off topic but..
Here is an article from 1993 about mufflers with such technolgy installed on city buses: Keeping It to a Low Roar; New York City Tries Electronic Muzzles to Zap Bus Noise - New York Times
.. power increases and the 3.5% gas savings they talk about are an eye opener in these times of ever increasing gas prices!
Walker was the manufacture for those but apparently they discontinued development after some success on the Viper: http://www.sagetechcorp.com/Main%20M...Vibration.html
Not sure if they are the Walker of Walker Game Ear fame or not. The game ear amplifies things out in the woods and some old folk use them as hearing aids.
To me it kinda smells of technology suppression as usual for the technology not being utilized in car manufacturing.

Here is a aftermarket hotrod version of such muffler that runs $600 : Phantom, Electrically Operated Exhaust Mufflers

[Scott Stone]

I have some ear plugs that I think I bought at Lowes. They are the baffled ear plug style, but are wired for an MP3 player. I think that I paid around $40 for them.

[mbryan]

Originally Posted by Scott Stone

I have some ear plugs that I think I bought at Lowes. They are the baffled ear plug style, but are wired for an MP3 player. I think that I paid around $40 for them.

Scott, when you listen to Big Band music, you don't have to worry about ear damage.