Banded Ear Plugs

On plus side, these are difficult to come out of your ear and lose the plugs. The only downside that I noticed is that the surrounding brace doesn't allow you to sleep comfortably if you sleep on your side; the brace gets in the way. Great if you sleep face-up. Also ideal for other uses like flying or overall noise reduction.

They block out the house well enough but my personal experience was they hurt. Tried putting band over a hat, tried it on top of head, tried it hanging behind head, and even had band under neck. All positions were uncomfortable. Felt like sticking hard plastic in ear. Tried to in end the band even trying to relieve pressure. To be fair to manufacturing facility and product name I can't fault them. Design and durability were top notch just chalk it up to an odd shaped head.😂

I work in aluminum tube metal and other architectural metals. I'm cutting and ripping metal all day on the jobsite in an enclosed space (which amplifies sound). LIKES: These earplugs are durable. The earplugs have remained attached to the bridge for this first week of use and don't show any signs of falling off yet. They wear around my neck or hard hat and stay put in-between use (cuts). I'm constantly putting them in to cut. Then taking them out and leaving them around my neck so I can hear numbers being called out for the next cut to be made. They're awesome for that. DISLIKES: The actual earplug part is small-ish and allows for some sound to get past. Fortunately it's enough protection from the saw sounds for my needs. And cutting metal is REALLY loud. Secondly, the bridge is wrapped into too tight of a curvature. So the earplug is puncturing and penetrating the eardrum (I exaggerate) but it's not comfortable - period. So, I took a cigarette lighter and softened the plastic bridge and opened them up a little. Bent them open and made the curvature to my liking. And that's working fine. One minor modification and they're keepers. OVERALL: I'd buy them again and probably will

at first they feel uncomfortable, I needed to stretch the band a little bit to fit me more comfortably.. they are pretty good.. at first they seemed uncomfortable but now they seem just fine. I would say that there are ear plugs and muffs which will block sound even better, but I like the convenience of these. Small to wear, and easy to put on and remove. Plus comes with plenty of replacement plugs. the plugs look like they will last.

Warning! Very in-depth review! At my job I'm always having to put on hearing protection to do one thing, then take it off again to hear someone talking. That means this type of hearing protection (with the plastic neck thing) is pretty much the only kind I can use. The problem with these is that they go too far into your ears. Not far enough to be damaging, but far enough to be very uncomfortable. I constantly had to pull on one side or another to get some relief for a minute or two before it slid back in. It didn't help at all that the plastic was so rigid that it'd actually push them in with a pretty noticable level of force. In the end, I took matters into my own hands and wrapped tape around where the rubber tips are mounted, which effectively made them wider, and kept them from going in as far. I also used a cut-off wheel to cut small slits various spots on the plastic neck thing, causing it to lose some of it's rigidity. (I know it sounds crazy, but when it's a slow day at work what else am I gunna do with my time?) Anyway, the modifications helped, and they work pretty well now. So if you're trying to avoid paying an arm and a leg for the name-brand versions, and aren't too against modifying these, you can get some pretty good value out of them. Oh yeah, and one final note. These are actually nicer than some of the foam-tipped versions if you work in dirty areas. The foam-tipped ones can get dirty, and are almost impossible to clean, where as these are rubber, which allows you to just wipe em off with some water and they'll be good as new.

These are very painful to wear. I used a heat gun along the arch of the band to spread them out. Now they fit in my ear better and are a little more comfortable. See the before and after shots. I'm still not happy with the performance of the silicone plugs (foam would be better) I do not recommend these, or this band TYPE at all. Whenever they touch something like the collar of your shirt while wearing them the sound amplifies thru the band into your ears. Very annoying! I think I'll try the over the ear protection instead.

Light weight, comfortable, effective noise reduction.

Works great for what I needed it for