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    Default earplugs for travelling

    heading on 12 hour flight shortly and having done it before thinking these noise cancelling things might be a good idea, yikes some are expensive though, your thoughts and suggestions,
    I would love to grow my own food, but I can not find bacon seeds

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    Your first priority is making sure you're sitting ahead of the engines, can you do that?

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    why?
    I would love to grow my own food, but I can not find bacon seeds

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    Because it's quieter. Sitting at the wing is ok but if you're further back than that it gets noisier, also the aisle is quieter than the window.

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    Happened to read this today: Apple's premium AirPods Pro are here | Inverse

    There is a list of some excellent noise cancellation plugs.

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    The noise cancelling headphones are only good if they don't touch anything, if you are trying to sleep with them on & they touch the head rest, they pick up the vibration through the body of the plane & seat.

    I don't much like ear plugs but they don't touch anything & pick up vibrations.

    I reckon red wine is the best.
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    Foam ear plugs are easily the cheapest option and work extremely well too. However, the proviso is that you are comfortable with them. They don't suit everybody. I have used them in work situations for years including, at times, using them to assist sleeping during the day when I was on night shift. They are cheap enough that you can try some to see if they suit you.

    You roll them up with your fingers to a smaller size, which they retain long enough to insert them into your ear whereupon they swell back up to fit your ear. Simple.

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    I have Bose QC20 ear buds with noise cancelling. Total silence.

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    I reckon red wine is the best.
    ...especially in combination with a couple of Normison.
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    Those Bose thingys look amazing, but experience has shown me that the hard earplugs are even more difficult to suit individuals. At work I can have custom fitted plugs. They take a mould of your ear and the plug is made to fit your ear only. I still don't like them and use the foam plugs. The foam plugs like these are in dispensers around our work place and are completely free (It is compulsory to wear hearing protection so they are provided ad lib):

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    Even if you have to buy, they are less than $10 for fifty pairs from overseas but a bit more if you buy locally (punch in foam ear plugs on Ebay), but still cheap and a lot less than Bose at >$300 . To some extent they are one use only ( think one day perhaps), but I leave them in my work clothes and they go straight into the washing machine. After they dry out they can often be used again, although sometimes they no longer compress between your fingers quite so well. I can't recall the decibel ratings off the top of my head.

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    Thanks for info, I have a set of hard poly?? that are moulded to my ears but buried somewhere in the shed, I also have small speakers fitted into them for personal music listening. Love these things but Ive search for 3 days and elusive liitle buggas dont fancy a trip overseas apparently.
    The foam ones are freely available from a mates business, but seeing what over options. #300+ is a lot to pay esp when I still dont sleep on planes.
    the red wine does sound good idea, duty free on way out, consume it then buy more on return
    I would love to grow my own food, but I can not find bacon seeds

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    It seems a bit weird to me, spend thousands on a flight/holiday and not want to buy good hearing protection.
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    I hate flying & after a work trip from Brisbane to Perth told my wife if I ever had to do it again I would be purchasing noise cancelling headphones. Anyway did 2 more Perth trips with Bose QC35ii. What a difference! Purchase price hurt a lot but they make travel so much better. Now use them on the bus to & from work. Did not realise how noisey the bus was until I got those headphones.
    Bose recently released a new model that is surprised to be even better. You won’t regret spending the money once on the flight.

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    Could these noise cancellation buds be used for scrollsawing and traffic noise?

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    Quote Originally Posted by woodPixel View Post
    Could these noise cancellation buds be used for scrollsawing and traffic noise?
    yup, you hear hear the police sirens until they rearend you.

    just got these on Gumtree...not cheapies but wife is content with $$$ spent, so win win
    I would love to grow my own food, but I can not find bacon seeds

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