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Ever think about how the world around you is just too darn loud? Crying babies, screaming children, industrial noise, the commute? Loop Earplugs has the solution with its line of super comfortable earplugs suitable for many different environments, from concerts to sleep to parenting. Tech expert and dad Dave Taylor checks them out - including the new Loop "Switch" Earplugs - and finds them the balm for a noisy world.
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Turn down the volume on the world around you
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That's exactly what this lets you do. Let's check it out. Dave Taylor here, and I got to admit
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the world can be a loud and annoying place. You can be outside and it can be all this industrial noise
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it can be cars, airplanes, or you can just be at home
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and you have a screaming child, or you have kids that are really boisterous
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and they always express that with volume. Now, you can spend your whole life saying
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shh, indoor voice, or you can solve the problem. And I love what this company's done
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This is a loop earplug. Let me open this up so you can see
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And this company has made these little earplugs. So they're not earbuds, they're not Bluetooth
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they're not gonna have music or anything, but they just simply seal your eardrum
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so you can lower the volume of the world around you. And they have different styles
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so you can actually pick how much you wanna lower that environment
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I mean, just imagine if it was a really loud, noisy environment and you could just say
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and it would just go away. Or maybe it was a really loud environment
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and you would just like, you would just turn it down a little bit. How glorious would that be
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So the company is Loop Earplugs and they sent me four different styles of their earplugs
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Now, on this side, I have the three individual models. So you can pick a model and they come
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they're super simple, different size ear tips, you dial in the ones you need
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and then you just put them in and you're good to go, easy enough. And they also have a fourth, a brand new model
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I'll get to that at the end. So let's start with these. So let's see, so this is the Loop Earplugs Quiet
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And I just wanna say, the company's slogan is, live life at your volume, great slogan
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So these are the Loop Quiet and they take 25 decibels out of the environment around you
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You will definitely wanna make sure you get the right size ear tips
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But they all look almost exactly the same. So these, in this instance
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are in a little tiny white case and we've chosen the lavender here
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And they just look like this, you can see in the closeup, really easy
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And all you do is just put them in your ear and that ring, make sure you don't have any worries
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that they're gonna get lost in there or anything, pop them out whenever you want
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But you can now walk around and here's a closeup, you can see my ear, it's pretty cool
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it almost looks like a piece of jewelry or something. But you can do this and I've just dropped 25 decibels
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from the environment around me. So these are great for sleep, for travel, for focus
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for people that are noise sensitive. If you work or just spend time in an environment
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where there's just jarring loud noises, imagine putting these in and you've addressed the problem
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without having to get upset with other people, without asking for children to be quieter and such
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So these are the Quiet. And then I'm gonna show you the others
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I'm gonna take them out of the box because they all look exactly the same
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The difference is that center part has more or less dampening for different sound
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So if we go to the Engage, that's these and the Engage look exactly the same
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they all come in multiple colors. These drop 17 decibel and these are the ones
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that are probably best for people if you're just in a noisy environment
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and you just wanna just, oh my gosh, can everything just be a little quieter
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Can I just turn the volume of the world down 17 decibels
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What I think is funny is they say these are really good for parenting. And well, my parents, as a parent
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my kids are a little old now for this to be effective, but it's tempting
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But I remember those days when you had two or three or four year olds and they just were roaming around
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and yelling and screaming and hollering and it was just endlessly noisy
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So putting these in and dropping that 17 decibels, glorious. Now, 17 decibels isn't a huge amount
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So the quiet are the most with minus 25 decibels. And then you get to these, which are the Experience
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And again, they all look exactly the same. All you have here is different colors
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In fact, I'll show you. So these are the black ones. They're gonna look exactly like the Switch
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When you open it, you have the case with the actual ear plugs
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and you have three sizes of ear tips. And that's really the whole thing
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So you get the ones that match what size ear you have
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And then I'll show you that these are the Experience and these drop 21 decibels
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So these live in the middle between the Quiet and the Experience
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So minus 21 decibels. And these, they say, are really good for if you go to concerts or if you're riding motorcycles
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or if you're working in a noisy environment. These would be good for an industrial environment
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for example. But imagine when you go to your next concert, being able to hear the next day
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instead of having that ringing in your ears for two days. Sorry, Taylor Swift
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these might make your concert that much better. But it's, again, super easy to work with
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Try different size ear tips to get the ones that work best for you
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Put them in and I'm done and I'm ready to go. And I can just wear these all day
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and I can still hear people talking to me. So I can still be in my environment
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but I have the ability to lower the overall volume. Fantastic idea
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So there's those three. And I'll talk about the price at the very end
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because I really wanna get to the new one that the company's just introduced
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Let me put this away and move it. This, put it like this
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So everything's nice and neat because the new ones they have, they got a lot of feedback from customers
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saying these are really cool, but I don't wanna choose between them. I wanna be able to have all of these options
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so I can have it on minimal noise reduction if that's what I want in some environments
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And then in other environments, I wanna be able to turn it up and get as good as I would get
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with those quiet earplugs, but with the same actual earplugs. So the engineers went back and they said
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hmm, let's think about this. And so what they came up with
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is actually a really ingenious idea. So again, it looks, oops, it looks exactly the same in the package
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And then you take these out and you look and they are earplugs, but they're dial
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You can dial in any of those three modes. So they call these logically the switch
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So it's a three-in-one design. And as you can see in this closeup
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might test your eyes, but you just dial the different levels of noise blocking or noise reduction
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depending on how you wanna phrase it, and then you can get it for exactly the environment you want
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So you can go from minus 17 decibels as if these were the loop engage
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all the way up to minus 25 decibels as if they were the loop quiet
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So imagine you go to, for example, an outdoor event and you know
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it's gonna be really noisy like an NFL game and you know in the stands
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it's just madness, it's so loud. So you put these in maybe at the lowest level
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just to see how that goes. And after half an hour, you're like starting to get a headache again
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It's just so loud with everyone screaming. So then you pop them out
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and you dial in the highest level of protection. You put them back in your ear
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and you're ready to go and be part of the excitement of the next two and three or four hours
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of that football game without getting that headache, without being unable to even hear yourself think
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So cool. Now, all of it is reusable. Obviously, these are not one-time use
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These are something you'll keep for a long time and use a lot
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They are eco-friendly. They come with multiple ear tip sizes. It's really easy to dial in
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and figure out the ones you want. And I will say that makes a huge difference
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So when I talk about earbuds for music, I talk about how it's important
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to get the right size ear tips. In this case, it's critical
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If you don't have the right size, then it's not gonna actually work very well for you
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So test out different sizes with background noise and then see which ones actually give it
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the most reduction possible. Really, really cool. I really like this because I really like companies
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that are thinking through actual life problems and coming up with innovative solutions
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And it's exactly what they've done here. So let's talk about the price
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But before we get to the price of all these different products, let me ask if you could subscribe to my channel
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As I hope you can tell, I get my hands on a lot of interesting consumer electronics
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Give me a comment either way to tell me what you wish I would have also shown
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And we're connected, cool. Now, this whole lineup, these are the Loop earplugs
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So we'll start with the Quiet. These are the ones that give you 25 decibels
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of noise reduction and these are $24.95. These are the least expensive of their lineup
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Then we have the Experience and these drop 21 decibels from your environment
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and they are $34.95 and these are really good for concerts and such
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There's the Engage and these are your parenting ear tips or earplugs, I should say
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And they will just lower all of the kid's noise by 17 decibel, might be your spouse's noise, whatever
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And then finally, the Switch. And these are the premium ones because they give you all three of those options
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These are $59.95 and you might think, that's pretty expensive for earplugs
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but think about the fact that you can dial in how much earplug effect you wanna get
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and that these will last a really long time. They're really well designed
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and obviously super easy to carry. I don't know anyone whose pocket is too small
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for something like that. And that's really everything. I'll say they have a lot of different colors
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different models of different colors. I particularly like the lavender. I thought that was very attractive
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but there's something about black too. It's gonna be very discreet and people won't even know
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but who the heck cares? If you're in noisy and loud environments
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and you just want things to be a little quieter, here is a solution and it's not much more size
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than a couple of quarters stacked together. Super worth checking out. That's all I got
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Think I might put these back in, so I'll catch you in my next video
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