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August 12, 2008 at
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I have been using ear plugs to help with hearing protection for years at the races. Unfortunately, every other year, I will do something stupid and end up with an ear infection/irration from the ear plugs. I noticed at the races this weekend that someone had some ear muffs that looked a lot like the Bose ear protection units. I espically like the fact that they wraped around the back of the head, and did sit on top of the head. I looked at the Bose site, and they were selling them for $250. All of the other ear muffs that I seem look like they were built in 1950's.
Does anyone have other ideas of getting ear muffs that don't look like the normal muffs, but don't cost $250.
Thanks
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August 12, 2008 at
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Try googling "hearing protection" and look around the various websites. North Safety is one, Aearo is another, Industrial Safety Gear is another. You may or may not be able to purchase direct, but they can point you in the right direction to purchase or look in the yellow pages for your local safety supply dealer. Places like Motion Industries or Applied Industrial supply factories with things like this all the time. Another thought would be an Army surplus store or outdoors/shooting supplies.
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August 12, 2008 at
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Posted By: JonR on August 12 2008 at 12:25:22 PM
I have been using ear plugs to help with hearing protection for years at the races. Unfortunately, every other year, I will do something stupid and end up with an ear infection/irration from the ear plugs. I noticed at the races this weekend that someone had some ear muffs that looked a lot like the Bose ear protection units. I espically like the fact that they wraped around the back of the head, and did sit on top of the head. I looked at the Bose site, and they were selling them for $250. All of the other ear muffs that I seem look like they were built in 1950's.
Does anyone have other ideas of getting ear muffs that don't look like the normal muffs, but don't cost $250.
Thanks
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WHAT WAS THAT YOU SAID?
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August 12, 2008 at
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While not always 100% effective, this european hearing protection device does a marvelous job of blocking out unwanted noise (especially crying babies - excellent around race car drivers) and also protects against infection!
MB
Rome wasn't built in a day......but they sure didn't
waste any time burning it down!
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August 12, 2008 at
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AO Safety makes some good stuff. We sell it in the landscape supply biz. www.aosafety.com
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August 12, 2008 at
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Hey MB, I thought that only worked on dickheads. 
Those Bose headphones are the cat's ass. They not only protect your ears from direct sound, they sample the ambient noise (like motors) and inverts 180 degrees to cancel out a lot of it. It's pretty cool that if you were talking to someone, that audio passes through but all of the other noise gets knocked down dramatically. Great for flights. Worth the cash.
Oh, and you can plug your iPod into it as well.
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August 12, 2008 at
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Posted By: JonR on August 12 2008 at 12:25:22 PM
I have been using ear plugs to help with hearing protection for years at the races. Unfortunately, every other year, I will do something stupid and end up with an ear infection/irration from the ear plugs. I noticed at the races this weekend that someone had some ear muffs that looked a lot like the Bose ear protection units. I espically like the fact that they wraped around the back of the head, and did sit on top of the head. I looked at the Bose site, and they were selling them for $250. All of the other ear muffs that I seem look like they were built in 1950's.
Does anyone have other ideas of getting ear muffs that don't look like the normal muffs, but don't cost $250.
Thanks
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Huh? What did you say?
Stan Meissner
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August 12, 2008 at
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What I did for my work was make an appointment to a audioigist an have molds made and within about about a week I had a set of ear plugs that you can not hear a thing..They look like hearing aids..The only drawback is you can not anything with them in when the noise goes down so to talk to anyone you have to pull them out..They cost about $110.00 bills and are not covered by insurance..Food for thought,Good luck
"Give me a diablo sandwich, a Dr. Pepper, and make it
quick, I'm in a goddamn hurry."
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August 12, 2008 at
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just move to california we have to run muffs on the cars
Robert Bond San Jose Ca
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August 13, 2008 at
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Posted By: shrek2259 on August 12 2008 at 08:51:30 PM
just move to california we have to run muffs on the cars
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heh, heh heh heh, he said muffs. heh heh heh.
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