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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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and I give people fair and honest reviews
and I tell you the good and the bad

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with lots of closeups and demos. And would
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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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