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Another picture of deep insertion from another angle to understand how it should look better: https://cdn.noisyworld.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/how-to-put-in-foam-earplugs-1024x521.jpg

A video on proper earplug insertion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gajb4bOu4Rs A pic of deep insertion: https://gettopics.com/gtc/file/dom/com/div/2019/invisible-hidden-foam-ear-plug-cut-shorter-painted-black-deep-inserted.jpg

I'd say to put them all the way in for the earplugs because that lowers occlusion and the opposite makes occlusion worse, but ear muffs are miles better to wear. Like the X5A's by example, no need to worry about wax build up or ear infections with those.

I appreciate you looking out for Mal, it's very nice of you and I definitely see where you're coming from.

@Nadia231 I understand what you mean. This is something that is extremely hard to do for some people and for lots of people it wouldn't be worth the effort of doing. It's just that it seems that @Mal25 is a very severe sufferer and asked for Bill's take on it in a thread. I'm only relaying what...

Microwave that works with the remote fingerbot: "Panasonic NN-SD681S" is the one, As long as the buttons can be pushed by a little force it'll be fine. Just put the fingerbot on the Start button. Fingerbot: https://www.amazon.com/Adaprox-Fingerbot-control-compatible-Assistant/dp/B09K3JNHHR

Thunder, stay indoors in the basement with hearing protection if possible extremely loud outside 120DB and near windows, people will calculate thunder in DBa, but it should be calculated in DBz weighting, it can easily be 83 DB indoors or more especially near windows maybe even louder depending...

Other things to avoid: Headphones Loud music at all Power Tools Saws Drills all of them Cars Motorcycles Door slams Toilet flushes Trains Planes

Microwave you can put a finger bot on the start button after setting up the time and start it remotely to avoid the sound or just use a big oven without the annoying " Ting" sound some make. Big ovens preferably that make no sound.

Things to avoid that you probably already know to: Toilet Flushing, You can attach a string to the toilet handle and get out of the room then pull the string while wearing hearing protection to flush the toilet remotely. Concerts Blender

Tutorials: How to wear ear muffs properly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNi3qJ79Wio How to wear ear plugs properly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gajb4bOu4Rs

Even clipping your nails can be a 100db impulse noise. I'd probably wear protection for that or use nail scissors for quieter usage because that can be a spike-inducing thing I imagine. You can also cut the side of your nails first then pull the nail off. It should come off easily if the side is...

That is for extended periods of time though. Split second impulse bursts of sounds above 60db should be okay and are basically improbable to avoid no matter what you'd try it's insane how many sounds we make that peak above 70db in the low millisecond time window.

However, I'm not sure if Bill talked too much about DB Meters he usually said to stay away from sounds that made you spike mainly and everything above normal conversation volume. 60db. A good way to know what those are is getting a DB meter however.

If you get a DB meter to find out how loud certain things are and which things to stay away from. Make sure it can Calculate DBz from 10hz to 20khz. DBa does not calculate low sounds properly and will not show you true values.