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As a leading manufacturer of innovative hearing protection and sound management solutions Crescendo Hearing Protection is always excited with initiatives to create awareness to prevent hearing impairment. Especially amongst the younger generation, hearing loss and prevention deserves a lot more attention.

We are happy to be associated with the I Love My Ears campaign. This campaign started in 2014 to create more awareness amongst visitors but also professionals such as music festival organizers, artists and sound engineers. A great amount of music locations have joined the initiative and have agreed to not let sound levels exceed above 103 db (assuming an average of 15 minutes). All associated locations can be recognized with the I Love My Ears logo and sell hearing protection.

Why should you choose Crescendo Hearing Protection products?

Our background is music, and many famous musicians use our filter technology because these filters provide them true natural sound, only just a bit less loud. Crescendo is the only company testing every filter acoustically before they go out to you: 100% quality control, 100% guaranteed music enjoyment. Our products are specifically designed for all types of different musical situations, for general concert use or the Pro Series such as the DJ, GUITAR, DRUMMER and VOCALS earplugs, featuring flat attenuating filters preferred by professionals and music lovers. Hear the difference here.

Crescendo Hearing Protection can be found along with more information and tips at www.ilovemyears.com

“The sound experience isn’t as good” and “I can’t hear other people talk that well” are the most commonly used excuses not to wear hearing protection. These excuses are usually quite justified, because the closing or narrowing of the ear canal generally results in extreme damping of high frequencies and little damping of low frequencies. This is similar to what you hear when you approach a festival site; in the distance you can only hear the bass and as you walk closer to the stage, the high frequencies are more audible.

Fortunately, the last few years the world of hearing protection has not stood still and the offering of earplugs with filters has increased significantly. But lots of manufacturers assure a natural sound damping and can’t live up to this. With the greatest ease they promise a “flat attenuation”, so you can safely enjoy the music close to the stage and at the same time have a conversation with someone. But in fact, only a few manufacturers offer solutions with a real flat attenuation. These products never cost less than 10 euros in case of generic hearing protection. And in case of custom earmoulds the price will seldom be lower than 125 euros.

How can you be sure whether your hearing protection provides a flat and natural damping? Check the certification data that should be sold with every earplug. If you can’t find this data, something’s not all right and you probably have a product that is not certified as hearing protection. While checking the certification, you can see how much the filter dampens at all frequencies to 8kHz. Most earplugs dampen a lot of high frequencies and not a lot of low frequencies. In these cases, sounds will be unnatural and speech intelligibility will be bad. The more equal the damping at all frequencies, the more natural the sound experience. Would you like to know what such graphics look like? Just check out the picture with this article, the damping graphics of the Dynamic Ear Company’s DM filters; the Pro Music Series. You’ll probably never encounter a flatter damping than this… we wish you lots of listening fun!

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New Crescendo hearing protection products available for different situations. For a better night’s sleep, for on an airplane or on the dance floor.

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Paul Langlois of the Canadian band The Tragically Hip lost all hearing in his right ear.

As the Canadian rock band, referred to as The Hip, was recording its album, Now for Plan A, guitarist Paul Langlois suddenly lost all hearing in his right ear, resulting in him becoming completely deaf on his right side.

The Hip-guitarist was diagnosed with sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL), a relatively rare condition which involves the onset of unexplained one-sided deafness.

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André Dodde is behalve redacteur van Musicmaker fanatiek toetsenist waarbij geen
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Crescendo gehoorbescherming

Wij muzikanten hebben meestal een haat-liefde-verhouding met gehoorbescherming. Je weet dat het belangrijk is als je je belangrijkste zintuig – je gehoor – wilt beschermen, maar je hebt niet geïnvesteerd in een dure versterker om hem vervolgens te horen alsof ie op tien meter afstand staat met een deken eroverheen. Goede oplossingen bestaan, maar zijn duur. Het Nederlandse merk Crescendo denkt dat het ook goedkoper kan.

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Crescendo universele gehoorbeschermers met vlak muziekfilter

Eindelijk is het zo ver; een revolutionair muziekfilter leverbaar in combinatie met universele gehoorbescherming. Dit muziekfilter zorgt voor een nagenoeg gelijke demping van het geluid in de lage, midden en de hoge tonen. De Crescendo Music PRO serie omvat een drietal modellen; de Woodwind 15 dB, de Vocals 20 dB en de Drummer met 25 dB demping.

Deze gehoorbeschermers worden geleverd met twee verschillende maten oordopjes voor de beste pasvorm. Bovendien worden ze geleverd met een handig opbergkokertje voor aan de sleutelbos.

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