New Jeep "mod" has changed my Jeep life! - Jabra ear buds

[BamaJeepTruck]

Bill Shatner once said it nearly drove him to suicide.

You don't have to have been to loud concerts or wars. Certain conditions like Meniere's just for example can cause it. Hearing loss is a huge cause of tinnitus.
I have "moderate" (which IMO means bad) loss in my left ear and not quite as bad in the right. I also have Meniere's so have to be super careful when on a ladder or up on the roof for anything.
I agree that some days (or nights) it's insane, other times it's not bad.

I have been around loud noises a lot - and was stupid not to use hearing protection, but in my case, that's not the likely cause. A bad ear infection when I was a kid may have had a play in it, and Meniere's which is hereditary has a roll.

I will never forget the loudest concert I ever went to - Queen was in Ames. My then brother in law was in college at ISU then and was involved in the team that helped set up the coliseum for events. Queen required more power than any had ever requested. A semi with a big transformer was brought in.
Anyway, part way through my wife went to the rest room and noted that ALL restrooms had huge lines already - men, women, all full with lines. Why? Why so early? People were getting up and going to the restrooms to grab TP to wad up and stuff in their ears! Loved the concert but man my head was buzzing clean into the next afternoon and not from the beer.
Race cars, chain saws, loud tractors, you name it, I should have taken better care in any case.

Meniere's, that's what grounded Al Shepard. You're in good company sir!

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[jimbom]

I may be in the minority but I think driving with active noise cancelation is dangerous. It is important to be able to hear sirens and horns. Good noise cancelation works too good.

ANR doesn't cancel things like sirens or horns. It senses and cancels steady sinusoidal (drumming) sounds, particularly low frequency stuff. Been using high end ANR headsets in my airplane for 20 years and I beleive it has saved my hearing.

 

[eyekode]

ANR doesn't cancel things like sirens or horns. It senses and cancels steady sinusoidal (drumming) sounds, particularly low frequency stuff. Been using high end ANR headsets in my airplane for 20 years and I beleive it has saved my hearing.

The consumer headsets/headphones I have arbitrarily cancel all external noises. My wife hates it when I wear them .

 

[Moe_Fugga]

How much does Jabra pay? I’ve been looking for a side job.

 

[Empty Pockets]

A lot of talk about tinnitus here. I called the tinnitus hot line one day. No answer, though. It just kept on ringing.

 

[Oilburner]

...Race cars, chain saws, loud tractors, you name it, I should have taken better care in any case.

Yup (open headers ftw), yup, and yup. Skill saw is particularly bad.
Take care of your hearing people.

PS: No thank you for any type of headphones while driving.

 

[danielspivey]

How much does Jabra pay? I’ve been looking for a side job.

do you say this to everyone when they mention a product or mod they like?

 

[Fcmalie]

A fellow vet I presume? The damn ringing hasn’t stopped in 15 years.

I feel lucky that mine is intermittent, still haven't put my name in for that 3m earplugs lawsuit settlement lol

 

[Moe_Fugga]

do you say this to everyone when they mention a product or mod they like?

The way it was titled and written sounds like a cheesy sales pitch. It was a joke.

 

[MrJeep]

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Ha, now that I re read this it does sound that way. I'm sure any noise cancelling earbud will work. Seems obvious but really does help.

 

[MrJeep]

Wow, that's not cool.

If you're not familiar with active noise cancellation, it's hard to believe how significant the noise reduction is. I've had ANC headsets for >5 years now, wired and unwired. I beta tested a Logitech wireless headset called the Zone, it worked so well I bought several dozen for people at my office.

The DC headsets in my brother in law's airplane were an expensive upgrade, but they drastically reduce the fatigue of going somewhere in a small plane. There are a lot of similarities between small planes and Jeeps!

I have a pair of ANC earbuds I usually wear in my server rooms, I've always used earplugs in my Jeeps, but I'll try them in the Jeeps now, too.

Thanks for the suggestion, OP!

I've been using Bose noise cancelling headphones for years in planes but that really kills my situational awareness driving and is probably illegal. I'm surprised the ear buds can do as well as wrap around.

 

[MrJeep]

I may be in the minority but I think driving with active noise cancelation is dangerous. It is important to be able to hear sirens and horns. Good noise cancelation works too good.

I would agree with you had I not tried these. They somehow have it much more sorted out than my 90's bose noise cancellers. Voices, and other important noises come through, just the repetitive road noise is gone.

 

[MrJeep]

I hear you - almost.........
I dealt with that for years until I got hearing aids and that greatly reduced that sound that actually caused me to not sleep, or want to scream sometimes.
Related to the original post here - my current hearing aids are programmable - by me, using either the buttons to choose a pre-programmed mode, or using my phone and an app.
One of the programs I came up with is to kill wind noise when driving and enhance voice when my wife is with me.
I can really dim the highway and wind sounds if it gets bad but the main program does a lot of that now, it's been tweaked "auto sense".
Not only that, but the bluetooth feature of the hearing aids means I use the JT only to see who is calling, I use the hearing aids for listening and talking on the phone. First time I tried using the truck system the other party said "maybe you should call me back, it sounds like it's raining there" LOL
I can be driving in a storm and use my hearing aids for phone conversation and they don't hear the background noise. No talking loud, no not able to hear them because of wind or highway sounds.
And it's helped the tinnitus a lot, too.
These have noise cancellation features I can bring in, modify, etc.
BUT it drives my wife nuts now because when I'm on my phone my wife has no idea who it is or what they are saying - only I can hear it! Makes her crazy not knowing.

As far as horns or sirens - naw, those come through as those aren't detected as "noise" by my hearing aids. Too much variation in those sounds. I suspect even my noise cancelling head phones would let some of that sound in - although in a jet you can't hear the engines at all - but again, that's a totally different sort of sound.
I can actually hear sirens BETTER with these hearing aids cutting the background din. That's what they filter - DIN, white noise, constant sounds.

If you read up on it, the technology between modern earbuds and expensive hearing aids is almost identical. Google has been trying to break the audiologist monopoly that makes $200 ear buds into $4000 hearing aids. They have the exact same tech in them.

 

[booneja]

We were in round the same time. I deployed to Iraq Oct 06, got extended for the surge and came home January 08. 1st Cav from FT Hood.

nice, I deployed in the dust bowl twice, once in 2006 then again in 2008/2009, with RCAF Engineers (similar to 325th Civil Engineering Sqn in the US), I think there was only ab out a half dozen of us that were not affected by all the rocket attacks, from my unit, but at least we all made it back, god bless brother

 

[brianinca]

The Logitechs have an app to tune what you can hear, including yourself - you can wind up shouting otherwise. Not inexpensive, but for my users they are wildly popular in the world of Zoom meetings. My drafters and engineers walk around listening to their music on them, as well.

The consumer headsets/headphones I have arbitrarily cancel all external noises. My wife hates it when I wear them .

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