If I recall correctly the maximum Noise Reduction Rating (NRR) for earplugs and earmuffs is around 30db. You can combine the two for a slight increase in hearing protection but you still hit a limit because of bone vibration.

Is there PPE out there to go even further beyond this? Where would it be commonly used?

  • @j4k3@lemmy.world
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    -2328 days ago

    Offline open source AI pointed me to this article on Wikipedia:

    Electronic hearing protection devices

    Some HPDs reduce the sound reaching the eardrum through a combination of electronic and structural components. Electronic HPDs are available in both earmuff and custom earplug styles. Electronic microphones, circuitry, and receivers perform active noise reduction, also known as noise-cancelling, in which a signal that is 180-degrees out-of-phase of the noise is presented, which in theory cancels the noise.[1]

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing_protection_device

      • @j4k3@lemmy.world
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        -2528 days ago

        It points you in a new direction of research and information like any others here. Sorry I cared to ask and respond I certainly won’t next time.

        • @KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world
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          Thing is, you didn’t care to respond. You let an AI respond for you cause you wanted to comment despite having nothing to say on the subject.

          • @j4k3@lemmy.world
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            -728 days ago

            I did not. Read it. It is a quote from the article after I verified the reference. It is a toxic bias of group think fools that take no time to read past what they want to see.

        • Fubber Nuckin'
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          It seems like your response was either trying to waste my time by sending me down a rabbit hole to find the information you didn’t provide, or just being lazy and not caring to so much as check what you were posting. In either case i could do without responses like that cluttering my limited time.

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              Sorry, you’re right, i was being too harsh. when i responded i thought you weren’t speaking in good faith, but i must’ve misinterpreted.