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Very cool product. You can get a similar effect to these isolation+masking plugs by wearing normal earplugs and then playing loud masking sounds externally (eit
by chockablock 12y ago
Very cool product. You can get a similar effect to these isolation+masking plugs by wearing normal earplugs and then playing loud masking sounds externally (either over speakers in the same room, or through over-the-ear headphones).
On planes, for instance, I wear headphones over my earplugs and crank up the volume to watch movies. It's the poor-man's noise-canceling headphones! If you can, also turn up the treble to try to flatten out the combined frequency response of the plugs+phones.
Obviously my hack doesn't solve the same problems this product does, but it's a trick I've found useful.
- d4n13ll33 12y agoYeah you can! A lot of the people I interviewed actually did that - they'd wear earplugs and have a sound generator going... Haha. Kind of counterintuitive since they'd be blocking out the noise masking as well, ha! That is a good workaround though to get a similar effect! Funny how you tried to digitally equalize the earplugs low-pass filter, haha
- makeset 12y agoI sleep like that, with earplugs and a white noise generator. The frequencies that make it past the earplugs are the ones you want anyway for blocking other sounds that make it past, so it's not that counterintuitive. The only sounds that now interrupt my sleep are low frequencies coming from below, through the pillow-side ear which doesn't get to hear the sound generator much.
- d4n13ll33 12y agoInteresting thought on how the lower frequencies that make it through mask out that frequency spectrum.