Music Pro Elite®

Full time professional musician here, been suffering from a raging case of tinnitus for years. I had stepped away from playing full time because of it. Found these devices a few months back, and I believe they are the best option I've tried yet, or that currently exist one the market. I love the pass thru at low volumes to hear MDs/Conductors in rehearsal, and the ability to squash sudden loud sounds. The main - and only complaint is the absence of bass response. I'm a bassist, and I find it pretty frustrating that I can't hear myself accurately. If this processing were available with the fidelity of, say, Ultimate Ears UE-11 Pro monitors, THEN they would get 5 stars! Can you make that happen?

These are very good and I wear them all the time in rehearsals and for many gigs.

However, they are not quite faithful for me. Compared to the open ear, bass sounds are attenuated a little too much, and very high frequencies are slightly amplified. I'm not sure whether this a limitation of the hardware, or if my ear canals are slightly differently shaped from "normal".

Whatever the cause, if there was some sort of EQ adjustment to compensate for this, they would be perfect.

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.