How strong are your earmuffs?

[Ickathu]

NRR or SNR or some other rating?

And where can you get 40+ ones?

I don't know. I'm sure you can get them somewhere though

EDIT: http://www.amazon.com/Sensear-SM1xSR...ywords=earmuff

[Mike Hughey]

29 db earplugs, plus 35 db earmuffs on top of it (so 64 db?)

Earplugs: $7.46 for a 50 pack here

No. It doesn't work like that.

An interesting discussion on this:
http://www.thehighroad.org/archive/i.../t-520608.html

[Stefan]

I'm sure you can get them somewhere though

I'm pretty sure you can't.

EDIT: http://www.amazon.com/Sensear-SM1xSR...ywords=earmuff

What about it?

And you forgot to answer the SNR/NRR question. How are we supposed to vote if we don't know what rating we shall use?

[shelley]

Practice with music on, and you won't ever need them again

Music is pretty easy to tune out. So is a low but constant level of noise typical at most competitions.

I do use earplugs for big cube blind. These events are typically held in a separate quiet room. Which sounds great at first, until you start solving and realize that every little sound, every whisper from a judge across the room, every click of the door latch as someone comes in or out, becomes that much more distracting because it just stands out against the background of silence.

I remember at Worlds 2007 when the 3x3 BLD event was going on onstage, the emcee had the idea that the room had to be COMPLETELY SILENT for this event. When the ambient noise level got too high, she would go "SHHHHHH!" into the PA system, which was so much worse than the ambient noise.

[Ickathu]

What about it?

It says it blocks 85dB

And you forgot to answer the SNR/NRR question. How are we supposed to vote if we don't know what rating we shall use?

NRR. I'm not too sure what the difference is. The box on mine says NRR though, so we'll do that.

[drewsopchak]

Anything over 50 is overkill.... unless your shooting a minigun or something inzane.

[masterofthebass]

It says it blocks 85dB

Uses active noise cancellation for sure. No way can you use that in competition.

[Stefan]

It says it blocks 85dB

No it doesn't. It "allows ear muff to ear muff communication beyond 85dB". It doesn't "block 85dB". Reading skills much? It has NRR of 24-25 dB.

Try another?

Anything over 50 is overkill....

You also think 50+ ones are available/possible? Please show one.

Same goes for everybody voting higher than 31-40dB.

[jonlin]

30 Db

[drogg]

Excuse my ignorance. I have never seen a BLD solve or done one. Why do you need earmuffs?