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The large 70db next to "hush the world" makes it sound like the earplugs offer 70db of noise reduction. Which I know is BS, because the best earplugs made offe
by nordsieck 12y ago
The large 70db next to "hush the world" makes it sound like the earplugs offer 70db of noise reduction.
Which I know is BS, because the best earplugs made offer 33db of noise reduction.
I can only assume that the 70db number is the sum of the noise attenuation and the speakers' volume, but specific claims about the earplugs performance would be nice.
- d4n13ll33 12y agoYeah, it is the sum of the passive attenuation of the earplug and the noise masking. We don't have the test equipment yet to make a dB calculation of NRR for the foam component, but from subjective tests when comparing with other earplugs, the foam seems to block out about ~30dB!
- maqr 12y agoThanks, that makes much more sense. It's really misleading because most pairs of IEMs and earplugs do list the NRR in db. I routinely sleep in my SE535's, which offer 37db NRR (I looked it up after seeing their 70db claim).