{"id":3878,"date":"2009-08-19T09:15:20","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T03:54:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-04-18T18:46:39","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T01:46:39","slug":"etymotic-resear-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/etymotic-resear-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Etymotic Research Earplugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earplugs are a necessity for me: I value my ears, but I also play in loud bands and go to loud shows. Standard <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/max-earplugs\/\">foamie<\/a> earplugs are cheap and get the job done, but they eat high-end frequencies, so everything sounds like you&#8217;re underwater.<\/p>\n<p>These earplugs have a much flatter frequency response, and wearing them makes everything sound more natural. At $12 a pair, they&#8217;re still affordable, and they come in a keychain carrying case, so you&#8217;ll always have them with you. I&#8217;ve used these for many years.<\/p>\n<p>Etymotic also makes &#8220;musician&#8217;s earplugs&#8221; &#8212; baffles that fit into custom-molded plugs, fitted and sold by audiologists. I&#8217;ve owned these, too, and I like the $12 ones as much or more: though the custom-fit type allow even more high-frequency sound through, the ER-20 sounds quite good, and it&#8217;s a lot less traumatic if (really when) I lose a pair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music lovers&#8217; plugs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11731,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878\/revisions\/11731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}