Etymotic Foam Eartips, Black - 10 Pack - Standard Fit

I bought these in an attempt to make my own workshop earbuds that could cut out the noise of a table saw. I knew my headphones wouldn't fit these eartips becasue of the bore. Etymotic has about a 3.0mm hole for the eartip to fit on. most earbuds (including every pair of mine) has about a 4.9mm hole for ear buds. However I had faith that I could get something to work.It actually wasn't very difficult at all. I'm not advocating you do this and I'm sure Etymotic isn't advocating it either but all I had to do was take some pliers and remove the grey tube inside of the tips. This leaves a hole which is about 4.9MM and easily fits on all my headphones.I tested these with many headphones and to quantify the isolation I would put on some music and see how loud it had to be for me to be able to hear it. With these eartips and nosie cancellation on I only had to have my music at about 35% which was fantastic. Without noise cancelling on I had to go up to about 60% which is ok but I wanted better.One thing that's very interesting is of my noise cancelling headphones only one actually worked with these tips. Some of my other headphones seemed to be out of wack and didn't cancel noise anymore but just introduced some white hiss noise.My final setup (for now I guess) is to use these tips on my Ausounds Au-Flex headphones (those headphones are super awesome BTW). I don't recommend using them for any Anker headphones. I tried them on my P3 and my Liberty Pro 2 and neither were optimal. the P3 were a pair of headphones that broke the noise cancellation. Also neither could fit in their case anymore. The Ausounds are a neckband headphone so there was no worry about the charging case. Actually I'd venture a guess that no TWS headphones would be able to charge with these on.Or you could just get some etymotic headphones and use them the way they are designed.... but where is the fun in that?

Best fitting eartips period! Just what I was looking (listening) for. Doesn't fall out or have to fidget with while running. Impeccable sound due to the form fitting foam & noise cancelation by physical design. However, if you try to use them with any other earbuds, they will split & become unusable. I went through a couple trying to "make" them fit. Finally bought the kid's version of Etymotic brand earbuds and they went on without any fuss. Great concept & idea. Just wish they made a universal fitting foam set that went with the more common earbuds out there. Regardless, they are my go to set if I know I'll be around any other noise other than a quite room.

The only complaint I have about these foam tips are1) Stiffness. I am almost certain that the original foamy ones that came with my er3xr are softer. But these looks as authentic as they can be and does work the same as the original ones.2) Doesn't expand as fast as the original ones. This complaint is along the same line as #1. Needs to hold the tips in position longer for them to expands and fill the space inside the ear canal. Not a big deal3) Longevity. This is the main problem. The tips lost about 80% of their "squishy-ness" within a month of two at most. At that point foam will not expand fully to fill the space and barely usable as they will lose isolation (and then sound quality) when you turn your head sideways or something like that which make them lose inside your ears. A week after that the foam will completely detach itself from the plastic tube that go over the metal body. At that point you have to discard the ear tips for a new pair. I tried gluing the foam back on the plastic tube with some E6000 but doesn't work.4) Dirtiness. The foam will be coated with ear wax after some use. Kind of gross. It can be partially clean by gently wiping the ear wax off but eventually it will become saturated. Warm water will clean the wax but it will also loosen the glue that hold the foam and the plastic tube together.Bottom line: Good isolation and sound quality, but need to be replaced almost monthly.

I find these mushable foam ear tips comfortable, do a good job of isolating you from external sounds but the down side is they don't last very long. I wear my Ety's HF-3's all day a work and I listen at home a lot with my iPod Touch 5. I can only get a couple of weeks out of these foam ear tips before the foam part separates from the center rubber tube leaving the foam marshmallow in you ear. If you don't use your Ety's much fine but if you wear them all of the time like I do they just don't hold up. I would look at something else.

I have the ER6s... quit using them because the original foam tips died, and too lazy until now to get replacements. duh - it's given new life to these great little headphones... I tried using the flanged tips that came with it, but they weren't designed for my ear canals. These tips pop right on, squeeze down just fine to insert into my ears... and magic, great sound! It's a reasonable value to get a bunch of these, and they are actually more comfortable than they look... no regrets, just remorse for waiting so long.. !

I live in a supremely noisy household and have to study. These are my best friend. I can't hear anything - not the tv, not the dog, not someone talking directly to me and right next to me, not the hair dryer, seriously not anything and I have amazing hearing (people joke I have superman hearing). If you need to block out noise to focus but don't want to kill your eardrums, these will be your best friend. And what's even better? When the music is changing and therefore those silent 2 seconds, I still don't hear anything. The only downside to this would be if someone was in my house burglarizing me. That's how good they are. And I tested 8 different brands in the range of $10-100. I cannot afford to go higher than $100. If you're looking for over that for amazing noise isolation, then that's a different story. For the price I paid, the etymonic in-ears were the best and these foam buds were the best out of all the ear pieces they provided.