this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2025
28 points (96.7% liked)

Buy European

6240 readers
421 users here now

Overview:

The community to discuss buying European goods and services.

Matrix Chat of this community

Rules:

  • Be kind to each other, and argue in good faith. No direct insults nor disrespectful and condescending comments.

  • Do not use this community to promote Nationalism/Euronationalism. This community is for discussing European products/services and news related to that. For other topics the following might be of interest:

  • Include a disclaimer at the bottom of the post if you're affiliated with the recommendation.

  • No russian suggestions.

Feddit.uk's instance rules apply:

  • No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia or xenophobia
  • No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies
  • No harassment, dogpiling or doxxing of other users
  • Do not share intentionally false or misleading information
  • Do not spam or abuse network features.
  • Alt accounts are permitted, but all accounts must list each other in their bios.
  • No generative AI content

Useful Websites

Benefits of Buying Local:

local investment, job creation, innovation, increased competition, more redundancy.

European Instances

Lemmy:

Friendica:

Matrix:

Related Communities:

Buy Local:

Continents:

European:

Buying and Selling:

Boycott:

Countries:

Companies:

Stop Publisher Kill Switch in Games Practice:

Banner credits: BYTEAlliance

founded 4 months ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
28
European earplugs (self.buyeuropean)
submitted 3 months ago by Blaze to c/[email protected]
13 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
top 13 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Got a pair of Loops, the Engage 2 noise since I am quite sensitive to strons and accute noises (police and ambulances sirens, construction works in the streets, and noisy public transport specially people listening to videos and specially reggeton and that kind of "music" without headphones angers me a lot).

Now when I am in a noisy environment I use them and it is like magic. I can keep listening to conversations with the people I am neat and participating in everything without the added annoyance of the unwanted noises and sound frequencies). I strongly recommend them for peope with noise senibility and if you want to be in a calmer environment sometimes in a busy city or public transport).

[โ€“] Blaze 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You are really selling them to me

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

If you have problems with acute sounds like me, works like magic. We did a sound check with several frequencies at home and there is a point in acutes where you hear nothing. We did the check: My husband without them, me with them on. And it works.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I'm using a pair of Fairbuds from (Dutch company) Fairphone. I don't really know how they compare to anything else as they're the first noise cancelling in-ear headphones I have, but I'm pretty happy.

They received a 10/10 score on iFixIt and received 4/5 stars in the Guardian, who found the sound to lag slightly when watching videos. I only use them for music and podcasts, so I wouldn't really know about that.

I guess one of the big things about them is that batteries can be easily replaced in both the case and the ear pieces, so they have no real reason to become e-waste at any point in the near future.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

earplugs, not earphones.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Ah, you're right - I didn't even know electric earplugs were a thing that existed. Oops.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

they aren't battery powered.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Ah, simple as that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I've been using Alpine for years, would recommend excellent!

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Loops are great. I use the Quiet 2 Plus for sleeping. They are easy to insert and take out, and because they are made of only soft materials they donโ€™t press your ears. Seems they now have Loop Dream for that purpose. I guess I just found out which earplugs I should buy when I need to replace my current ones. Previously I used Happy Ears Earplugs (Swedish company), but they have a short stick made out of plastic which makes them somewhat uncomfortable.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Donโ€™t forget Shush from the Netherlands: https://shush-earplugs.com/about/ Their plugs are certified (2016/425 PPE)

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How do these compare to ones from Sennheiser? I've been thinking about getting a pair.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

With these, you only hear the music in your head. Or your tinnitus.