Ever went out in the rain without a coat or umbrella? Remember how wet you got?

Now imagine all the noise. Not only just ordinary street noise but really loud events - including live conserts of your favourite Rock band or a long eevning in the disco. The effect remains the same.

Too high sound pressure level is acting to your in ear cilia which have to transmit the sound inside your ear like a hammer on grass. After a while beating on the same spot there will most likely no grass grow for a longer while. Somewhat later everything will be extinguished.

Hearsafe, located in Cologne, Germany, is concentrating on ear protection. You can get different earplugs with different attenuations - even exchangeable for several applications.

Eckhard Beste is the brain and manager behind Hearsafe. He developed his business several years ago.

This "slightly oversized" model of a human ear on the left is used to demonstrate how the sound transmission works.Here it is shown clearly why "one size fits all" does not work for quality earplugs. Ears come in all shapes and sizes and so have to be the earplugs.

This lucky guy gets what is called "otoplastic". This means that his ears - each ear individually - is filled with an elastic material to use the result either for a noise filter or for an in ear monitor.

Who says that audio can't be colourful? These otoplastics come in different colours only limited by your imagination.

Web: www.hearsafe.de