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Make apple earpods work better on airplane?

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I'm leaving for a trip tomorrow and the only earbuds/headphones I have are apple earpods. I'm going to be playing HL2 and listening to music on the airplane and I'm wondering if anyone knows how I can make the earpods block out some noise so I don't have to have them turned most of the way up then have my ears start hurting half way through the flights. Something to make them seal tight? Any ideas?

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Which apple earpods are they?

 

I have the older ones and I wear them with the actual speaker facing away from the back of my head. It seals a lot of noise.

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Which apple earpods are they?

 

I have the older ones and I wear them with the actual speaker facing away from the back of my head. It seals a lot of noise.

I did not know there were more than one generation of apple earpods. Are you referring to apple earBUDs? If so, they're not the same thing...

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I did not know there were more than one generation of apple earpods. Are you referring to apple earBUDs? If so, they're not the same thing...

 

Yup my mistake

Have no idea about those...

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Probably anything that would actually work would require a trip to the store, at which point you might as well buy in-ears.

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You could try using one of those ski pull down wool hats, chances are you got at least one lying around. Pull it all the way over the ear. If still not enough isolation, stick a pair of cotton balls in between. That's the best I could think of.

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Stop by at the airport at any store and buy a cheap in ear, not earbud if you can. 

DONE! :D

Anything will be better than Apple earbuds, i can assure you.

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Stop by at the airport at any store and buy a cheap in ear, not earbud if you can.

DONE! :D

Anything will be better than Apple earbuds, i can assure you.

The new ones are pretty good

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Have a pair of ear muffs laying around?

this is what I do when mowing the lawn.

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For a second I thought you were wanting them to sound better when your device is on airplane mode.  *Eye twitch*

 

Try to put them a bit further up your ears, perhaps?  Earmuffs could be a viable option without looking too out of place as well.

 

...Ooh!  Maybe, if you have the time and resources, plastidip them to increase their volume (as in space taken up, not sound level), maybe leaving less of a physical leakage in your ears?

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