Collin's Lab: Custom Fit Earbuds

What do you get when you combine DIY custom molded earplugs with a pair of in-ear headphones? Isolated Hi-Fi that fits like a glove but won't break the bank.

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• headphones
• earbuds
• audio
• isolation
• diy
• earplugs
• custom fit
• mold
• molded
• portable
• cheap
• inexpensive
• alternative
• noise canceling
• passive
• collin cunningham

[MethshockFilms]

@ThEtErRoRiZeR7r011 This guy is kinda fucking badass.

[ishouldplayzelda]

my brother has $900 custom in-ear monitors. i'm going to make some like this for $50

[Howtotutorialz1]

MORE COLIN PLEASE

[dreadpiraterobert]

Thanks Collin -- I've got them curing in my ears right now (same Shure earphones too, I think...) while the kids watch Saturday morning cartoons.  What a fun, easy, useful project!

[dreadpiraterobert]

@universeiswise That's why these are so good: they eliminate all that background (plane, train, etc.) noise so you DON'T have to turn them up so high to hear perfect quality sound.

[zerofreeze27]

3:24 thumbs up if you thought he sliced his finger open under the nail with that boxblade

[MrBucsfan94]

Gross earwax on the one..... Yuck

[universeiswise]

I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news BUT: inear earphones are very BAD for your hearing. Simply, the sound waves produced by your powerful music devices, reverberate around your ear cannal and can not be disperssed.Yes,This is the purpose of in-ear headphones, & yes why not just turn your music down a little; all these factors will blast your very sensative hairs on your ear drum.regular use of an inear headphone set when on a high decible producing type of travel e.g. plane or train.

[StevoDisaster]

@Plamen2007 Could you make a video of that? I've tried to find a video of someone doing that diy.

[mspinney203]

Your video is popular on Panama City

[Plamen2007]

- Press the thermoplastic against the walls of the cast so you end up with an empty shell when it cools down.

- Take the cooled down empty shell out of the cast and put in your earbud drivers.

- Taking care to leave a canal between the driver and the part of the shell which will be furthest in your ear canal, pour more thermoplastic into the shell until it's full on the inside.

- Wait until cool.

- Congrats, you now have a pair of professional looking IEM's for dirt cheap!

[Plamen2007]

Guys, I have a better idea. I know it's kind of a long process but I think it beats having to pay 900 buck any day.

- Take impressions of your ears.

- Sand down the impressions themselves until they are exactly the size and shape of IEMs.

- Make a casting of your impressions, in cast rubber. (open at top) (top = outer end of the impressions).

- Take apart a pair of earplugs, so that only the drivers and cable are left.

- Heat Instamorph thermoplastic and pour into cast.