I have tried using many different flavors of off the shelf sound isolation type earphones and always been dissatisfied with how little they attenuate road noise. In the past I had tried kludging together some foam earplugs onto the earbuds but never got anything that was reliably workable. Until today.
I have a set of JVC ear speakers that I bought on Buy.com a while back that I like the sound of. They have the larger type of output port, same as the Skullcandy's I also have. I took a pair of Howard Leight Max earplugs and punched holes through them using an oversized electrical connector pin punch. But when I tried to use them the center hole would just collapse, muffling the sound.
So I slipped a short piece of clear shrink tubing over the output port of the JVCs and heat shrunk it on. Then I slid the earplug over the now stiffened shrink tube, trimmed them to length and, voila!! I finally may have an earspeaker set that I can live with.
I can tell you that you get almost as good noise reduction as when using them as earplugs, but obviously there has to be some reduction in attenuation from punching the big holes through the middle. Anyway, I just wanted to share the shrink tubing idea for anyone trying to do something similar.
I have a set of JVC ear speakers that I bought on Buy.com a while back that I like the sound of. They have the larger type of output port, same as the Skullcandy's I also have. I took a pair of Howard Leight Max earplugs and punched holes through them using an oversized electrical connector pin punch. But when I tried to use them the center hole would just collapse, muffling the sound.
So I slipped a short piece of clear shrink tubing over the output port of the JVCs and heat shrunk it on. Then I slid the earplug over the now stiffened shrink tube, trimmed them to length and, voila!! I finally may have an earspeaker set that I can live with.
I can tell you that you get almost as good noise reduction as when using them as earplugs, but obviously there has to be some reduction in attenuation from punching the big holes through the middle. Anyway, I just wanted to share the shrink tubing idea for anyone trying to do something similar.
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