Eargasm is home to top-tier earplugs and accessories offering great ear protection and stylish designs. They’re the perfect place to start caring for your ears.
Just a few weeks ago, Ultra Music Festival officially kicked off this year’s music festival season. The fireworks were spectacular, the sounds were influential, and the outfits were impressive. In the days that followed, it seemed that we, as a community, were having just about every type of music-related conversation. But an important topic that was missing from the dialogue was something that every raver should consider essential: earplugs.
Maybe it’s the lack of ear damage awareness, maybe we’re put off by how pharmacy-brand earplugs ruin high-end frequencies, or maybe we’re put off by their bulky look and how uncomfortable they feel. Whatever the reason, we all need to take better care of our ears, and that’s where Eargasm comes into the picture.
This company, serving the music community for almost ten years, specializes in top-tier earplugs and accessories that offer great ear protection and stylish designs. A perfect way to start taking care of your ears is with its High Fidelity Earplugs.
Different from store-brand earplugs, the High Fidelity Earplugs offer a hypoallergenic soft silicone, which makes them comfortable to wear for hours; two different-sized shells so you can make it feel right for you; a mini-case to store your earplugs; and a filter that’s designed to maintain high sound quality and reduce noise up to 21db.
I recently tested these at Romy’s Club Mid Air show in New York. The venue, the Knockdown Center, is a large warehouse with tall arched windows, creating a space with heavy reverberation. I was also photographing that night, which meant that I would be right next to the bulky speakers for about ten minutes.
I hate to admit that the sound quality of an earplug is an afterthought for me, but the truth is that I care more about noise reduction. (Store-brand products offer up to 32db in noise reduction, which I always use when photographing a show.) So it was to my surprise that, given the nine-decibel difference, the Eargasm plugs offered just as powerful protection when I was right up front.
Normally, after leaving the photo pit, I head to the back of the venue to take off my earplugs. (At this point, after 20 minutes, my ears hurt from wearing store-brand.) I continued the same ritual, yet when I arrived at the back of the venue, I watched the show instead. I thought that I had already taken them off because, one, my ears weren’t hurting, and two, the sound quality felt crystal clear. I completely forgot that I was wearing earplugs.
About several minutes later, I realized that I was wearing the earplugs, and I took them off anyway to see if there was a substantial difference in sound quality. There wasn’t. As someone who’s been photographing live music for more than five years, the Eargasm plugs made me realize that I should have invested years ago in finding earplugs that would not compromise sound quality.
One caveat is that you have to be careful not to misplace them. Because of their transparent look, they’re hard to see in the dark, even with the colored filter. (Eargasm does offer a cord so that you could easily wear it around your neck.)
As a community, we need to start engaging in more dialogue around ear health, and Eargasm is leading that conversation with its latest partnership with EDC Las Vegas. We already spend our money at festivals that feature surge-priced food, Ubers, and drinks, so why not, at less than $44, invest in a purchase that will transcend your festival-going experience? Your ears will surely thank you for that.
