Minerva/Specsavers custom-moulded earplugs#

Tue Apr 1 20:14:00 2025

"What big ears you have"

My custom-moulded earplugs are here! I was not allowed to simply go and collect them, I had to make an appointment with the audiologist to have them handed over. (The appointment consisted of them being handed over, and me putting them in my ears: presumably it would have been more involved if I hadn't succeeded in that act)

Red is right ear, blue is left ear and you can see they're both a lot fatter than the off-the-shelf Pinlock earplug I put in there for comparison - which might explain why I was not getting a whole lot of volume reduction from the Pinlocks. Texture is "slightly squishy", I guess they're made of some kind of silicone compound.

They came with a soft case and the hard case pictured. Both cases are far too large for the purpose, but the plugs are a little too girthy to fit in the small metal keyring tube that I've been keeping the Pinlocks in. Not that I'm complaining about the size when it's a consequence of them being big enough to fit my ears, you understand.

I put them in for ten minutes to ride home and they do noticeably attenuate the sound, but I didn't get to more than about 45mph so I don't yet know how good they are at motorway speed.

The visible branding is Specsavers, but they're actually made by Minerva