Music Pro Elite®

Voices sound like they’re speaking through a kazoo or a vibrating piece of film. General electronic distortion is common. Sometimes there is a strange oscillation between left and right ears, around 5 cycles per second or so, especially with sounds that are loud, but not too loud. Background hiss is noticeable when sound is not loud (this is the case with all active noice cancelling earplugs or headphones, so no surprise here).

These are my top pick for musicals, which have a very wide dynamic range.

For concerts, I’m on the fence between the Bose QuietComfort 20 and the Music Pro Elite. The Bose provide smooth and even reduction of volume with no distortion, but they cancel out almost all of the low frequencies. The Music Pro Elite don’t cancel out much of the low frequencies at all, but make music sound distorted.

I think for concerts, instead of only trying to reduce loud sounds, it would be better to have consistent sound reduction, similar to the way the Bose QuietComfort headphones work, except a constant reduction across all frequencies instead of a bias towards cancelling out all low frequencies.

Overall, there is a lot of room for improvement.

My daughter suffers from a pain condition called geniculate neuralgia. She has constant ear pain that is made worse by triggers like loud sounds. She plays in her high school band and we thought she was going to have to give it up but this product has been the one thing that allows her to hear what she needs to and dampens the extreme levels so she doesn’t get triggered. We are so excited to find a product that does this! I hope my review possibly sends others that deal with facial pain conditions to this site for help with sound triggers. She finds these easy to use, comfortable, and discrete.

I am a life long musician and Instrumental Music Teacher. I am constantly exposed to volume levels that are potentially unsafe. While there are no perfect solutions for hearing protection, these Music Pro Elites are the best I have used. I use IEM's on stage (Etymotic) and have used different passive hearing protectors with different filters. These are by far my favorite. I use them with the 6db boost in rehearsals so that I can hear conversation without having to take them out. In a live music setting, I use the low mode and they work great. I highly recommend these Music Pro Elites.

I play in an orchestra and am in front of the trombones in one orchestra and in front of the percussion in another orchestra. These hearing protectors reproduce sound very well, so you can hear yourself play and hear others normally, while dampening the really loud sounds that might damage your hearing. The only difference from normal for me is that the sound of crinkling papers and turning pages is louder than normal, but you quickly get used to that. I would recommend these to any musician who needs to protect their hearing, while being able to hear sounds of normal volume. I used the protectors for 3 hours and they were at 70% charge after the session and they were quickly recharged by the case. The case still showed 100% charge remaining after charging the hearing protectors from 70%-100%.

I’m not a musician any more. Now I interview people, sometimes they are very sad and very soft. When my allergies are riled up, even with multiple allergy medications, my hearing is impacted. These ear buds make help me hear the speech more clearly. The effect is subtle but very meaningful. I -love- these!