Flare Calmer – Ear Plugs Alternative – Reduce Annoying Noises Without Blocking Sound – Soft Reusable Silicone - Mint

Bought the normal size Calmer (not the mini). My ear size is medium on any earbuds. But the calmer keeps on sliding out of my ear. It's so small and won't fit properly. No change on the surrounding noise. No improvement. Just a little bit of reduction.

There’s no sound isolation at all, only very low sound transformation. I find this device is useless.

If anything it actually hightened my sensitivity

These are brilliant. They dont block out noise so much as soften the sharp edges. I forget I have them in (so no trouble hearing people) until they get a bit irritating after about 8 hours.

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Reason for purchase; misophonia and auditory hypersensitivity associated with autism and sensory processing disorder. Before getting these things, I was reluctant to spend the money and deeply skeptical of how effective they would be for one reason; most of the product literature on Flare Audio's website and their advertisements were fairly vague about the details of what they did and how they worked in a way that set off snake oil alarm bells. When an explanation is vague as to why you should stick rubber tubes in your ear to alter your mood, my skeptic sense tingles. I can't help it. I'm a scientist. Nonetheless, I decided to give them a try. I have enough of an acoustics knowledge and well-trained enough ear to be able to hear in detail what exactly they're doing (if they're doing ANYTHING), so I'm not exactly going to be tricked easily by a placebo effect in this area. Over the last week or so my skepticism has been replaced with admiration and delight; these things work, they work well, and they work for very good reasons. There's a few things going on here; 1. They're bypassing the external anatomy of the ear, making hearing more directional and a hair less sensitive 2. They're altering the internal acoustic properties of the ear canal Let me break this down a bit further; Our ears act as acoustic collecting dishes, in particular the hollow adjacent to the ear canal. If you're bypassing that, then less sound is being directed into the ear canal in general, and this also has the effect of making hearing slightly more directional without amplifying in the way something like an ear trumpet would. So how does this help? When you have an auditory hypersensitivity from a processing disorder, you can't filter out environmental sounds normally, and by making hearing more directional you're cutting out a huge percentage of the sound reverberation your ears are picking up. Every echo in a room adds to the auditory chaos around you, so by removing a measure of that from your awareness, and slightly deadening sounds coming from behind you, it becomes a lot easier to decipher and focus on sounds in front of you that you're trying to give your attention to. The best way I could describe the shift in auditory sensation is that it's like suddenly all the surfaces in the room are covered in sound-dampening acoustic foam. As for altering the acoustic properties of the ear canal itself, it's also deadening sound reflection. This has an effect not unlike turning down the gain on an amplifier. A lot of high frequency and upper midrange sounds are dampened very slightly. Electrical hum and buzz is really effectively notched out. In general audiophile terms, it makes the sound profile "warmer." In a relatively quiet room, the differences in your auditory perception will be fairly negligible. The louder and more chaotic your environment, the greater degree of difference will become apparent. I didn't even grok how effective they were until I'd been wearing them to the grocery store a few times, and then took them out while shopping. I'm telling you, the sudden auditory assault when I removed them legitimately stunned me. I wasn't even cognizant of how much auditory input they were notching out until suddenly it all came screaming back. I honestly wish Flare Audio did a more effective and detailed job of explaining the functioning of these things on the website. As it is, it sorta took trying them myself to understand the principles they're operating on. That being said, these things are amazing, worth every penny, and I'll probably never go anywhere without a pair ever again. These are a shockingly effective tool to counter sensory overwhelm, so I guess I shouldn't have been so skeptical of sticking rubber tubes in my ear.

Die kleinen Plugs sind sehr hilfreich bei Störgeräuschen oder zu lauten Gesprächspartnern. Sie dämpfen etwas ab, aber lassen dennoch alles gut vernehmen. In lauten Städten könnten sie zu schwach sein. Pluspunkt ist ihr supra weiches Material. Sehr angenehm zum tragen, auch für längere Zeit. Und waschbar.

J'ai acheté ce produit sans trop y croire, souffrant d'acouphènes variables en intensité dans l'oreille gauche (sifflement). Ils gagnent en intensité quand je suis exposé à des sons aigus et puissants. Je travaille dans un environnement parfois très bruyant (école). Après avoir utilisé ce produit pendant plusieurs jours, j'ai remarqué qu'il me protège efficacement de ce genre d'agressions sonores. J'ai même acheté la version "Pro", qui restitue encore plus finement les sons. Mes acouphènes se sont atténués progressivement, à un point tel que je ne les remarque plus avant de m'endormir. Pour moi, dont les acouphènes sont provoqués par des pics d'agressions sonores, ça marche vraiment très bien, et je suis très content d'avoir testé !