NoNoise Motorsports Hearing Protectors

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I think there is an entire thread around here that has a more generic "Hearing Protection" title, but I'm on my phone now and it's too much of a pain to search for it. That said, I have tried several of the cone-shaped earplugs like No-Noise or Earpeace and all of them hurt my ears after a period of time. In 2017, I tried Mack's Pillow Soft earplugs at TheFerret's suggestion. https://www.macksearplugs.com/product/pi...-earplugs/

There's a little more fiddling required to get then seated properly, but they are both quiet and comfortable for me. I reuse the same set for 4 or 5 rides or until I drop one and it picks up some gravel (happens enough to be worthy of mention). I actually buy the store brand version of the Mack's to save a few dollars.

Another benefit of these for those that listen to music is that they work really well to keep your earbuds in your ears and to suppress other helmet noise that typically creeps in around the earbuds. I rip one of the Mack's in half, put my earbuds in, then press in half an earplug over and around the earbud. Works pretty well and especially if you wear a Buff or balaclava under your helmet.

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I was going to try the No Noise, until other forum members posted about Earpeace ear plugs. The Earpeace plugs are 2/3 the cost of No Noise, come with a nice aluminum storage tube, 3 different noise level reducing filters, and include a third ear plug, in case you loose one. Comparing the specs, Earpeace noise reduction is a bit better than the No Noise. The storage tube stores 2 plugs in the top end of the cylinder, and the spare in the bottom end of the cylinder.

The pull tabs on some plugs are too long, and hit the inside of my helmet. The pull tabs on the Earpeace are like those found on in ear hearing aids,and do not hit the inside of my helmet. I have found the standard size Earpeace plugs are reasonably comfortable, and with the max noise reducing filter in use, I still have situational awareness hearing. Earpeace has recently come out with what they call "Petite" size, which is 20% smaller in diameter than the standard size. This smaller size is for people with smaller ear canals, who find standard sizes painful for extended use time, and/or who have difficulty keeping standard size seated in their ear canals. Here is a link to Earpeace: https://www.earpeace.com/products/motorc...7574146104

For me, the Earpeace brand was next to pluggerz. I who'ed and haw'ed between the two. I rationalized the heck out of Earpeace and for the things you also said. Earpeace comes with the aluminum container which adds to the cost of the product. I find those little containers too fidgety for me, but it wasn't a deal breaker. pluggerz comes with a neat, albeit plastic pill-like box. Since I had a product like Earpeace in the past and I almost couldn't get the plug out of my ear (i.e. too small), I decided to go with pluggerz. So far they have been pleasant and economical to use, as well as easy to locate (orange colour).