Ask a jumper about injuries and they’ll picture a bad landing — but the most common skydiving injury is invisible. At terminal velocity the wind roars past your ears loud enough to do permanent damage, and a wind tunnel can hit 115–130 decibels — enough to cost you hearing in seconds. The One® custom earplugs cut that wind noise to a safe level while you still hear your instructor and your team, with a vented system that equalizes pressure on the ride up and the rapid descent. Protect your hearing without losing the rush.
Your exact solution
Hearing damage starts at 85 dB. A tunnel runs 115–130 dB for your whole session — the 30 dB filter pulls that toward the safe range while your coach and your count stay audible.
See this set →Every jumper preps the canopy, the altimeter, the rig — and forgets the one injury that’s actually most common: hearing damage from wind. At freefall speed the wind tearing past your ears is loud enough to cause permanent, irreversible loss, and indoor wind tunnels routinely run 115 to 130 decibels — a level that damages hearing in seconds unprotected. The danger is silent, and by the time you notice the ring, it’s already permanent.
The One® fixes it without dulling the experience. A dual-filter system cuts the damaging wind noise to a safe 85 dB while your instructor, your team and the world stay clear, and a vented design lets you equalize pressure on the climb and the descent. Choose full-stop for maximum quiet, or a Bluetooth-enabled set. Patented, hand-built in the USA, and backed by a perfect-fit guarantee.
Wind noise is the injury no one talks about — and ordinary plugs cut you off from your team. The One® fixes both. Here’s why.
Drops freefall and wind-tunnel noise (115–130 dB) to a safe level, guarding against the most common — and most invisible — skydiving injury.
The dual-filter system passes speech at a safe 85 dB, so you stay in contact with your instructor and your group.
A vented design lets you adjust to pressure changes on the ride up and the rapid descent — comfortable from plane to ground.
Molded to your ears, they stay put through the door, the freefall and the canopy ride — no working loose at 120 mph.
Medical-grade and reusable, one set rides with you for years of jumps and tunnel time.
The short version: most jumpers wear the filtered The One® at $299.95 — cuts the wind, keeps your team clear, equalizes pressure. Step up to two filters or a premium kit, go super-soft, or add Bluetooth. Here’s how they compare.
The patented dual-filter The One®: cuts 115–130 dB wind noise to a safe level while your team stays clear, with a vented system that equalizes pressure. Our best-selling skydiving earplug.
More tuning, plus a premium indoor/wind-tunnel kit with extra filters, a comms piece and a case.
Go super-soft for all-day comfort, full-stop for max quiet, or add Bluetooth stereo for audio under canopy.
From the patented The One® to super-soft and Bluetooth options, find the protection that keeps you in the air for years.
Patented dual-filter protection that cuts wind and keeps your team clear — the jumper favorite.
View FilteredFull-stop and super-soft custom plugs for maximum comfort and quiet.
View SolidSealed custom stereo earbuds for audio on the climb and under canopy.
View BluetoothCups, pouches and lanyards to protect and carry your plugs.
View AccessoriesEveryone braces for the broken ankle. Almost no one protects against the injury that actually happens most — the slow, silent hearing loss the wind delivers on every jump and every tunnel session. It doesn’t show up on the ride down; it shows up years later as a ring that never stops. Protect your hearing now, and keep chasing the sky with ears that still work when you’re done jumping.
The set most jumpers wear. The One® uses dual filters to cut 115–130 dB wind noise to a safe level while your team stays clear, and a vented design equalizes pressure on climb and descent. The $299.95 set is our best-selling skydiving earplug. Patented, built by hand. Shop the jumper favorite →
The patented The One® with a single filter: cuts the wind roar to a safe level while your instructor and team stay clear, with a vented system that equalizes pressure on the climb and the descent.
Two filters for more control over how much you hear — tuned for frequent jumpers and varied conditions, from the plane to the tunnel.
Our premium kit for the wind tunnel and beyond: four filter sets, a non-linear set and a tactical comms piece, with a premium case.
The One® isn’t one filter — it’s a filter system with two positions, and you pick what goes in each. That’s what lets one custom plug be tuned to your ears and your world instead of a one-size compromise.
Seats down in the canal and reacts to how loud the sound is. Quiet passes through so you keep your awareness — then the instant a sharp impulse hits, it clamps down, and opens right back up. This is the one you want when the danger arrives as a crack, a blast or a bang.
Mounts on the outer face and turns the whole world down evenly, across every frequency — so the sound keeps its shape instead of going muddy the way foam makes it. This is the one you want for steady, sustained noise: wind, engines, a room, a mix.
Run one, or run both. Your dB level and filter choice are picked when you build your pair — and because they’re interchangeable, you can change your mind later without changing your earplugs. The Select and Premium levels simply give you more filters to swap between.
Full-stop and super-soft custom plugs for maximum comfort and quiet when you don’t need to hear the room.
Our softest custom skydiving plug — all-day comfort with a secure seal for long days at the drop zone.
A simple solid custom plug for maximum quiet — an affordable entry into protection.
Sealed custom stereo earbuds for audio on the climb and under canopy — sound that stays put at speed.
Sealed custom stereo earbuds — protection plus audio for the ride up and under canopy.
Cups, pouches and lanyards to protect and carry your custom skydiving plugs.
A rugged screw-top cup that keeps your custom plugs clean, paired and easy to find.
A soft zippered pouch that protects your earplugs and tucks into any bag.
A screw-in lanyard so your plugs stay together and never go missing.
The questions jumpers and tunnel flyers ask most before protecting their hearing with The One®.
The best skydiving earplugs are the patented filtered The One®. Its dual-filter system cuts the 115–130 dB wind noise of freefall and wind tunnels to a safe level while you still hear your instructor and team, and a vented design equalizes pressure on the climb and descent. It’s our best-selling skydiving earplug at $299.95; solid plugs start at $128.95.
Yes — hearing damage from wind is the most common skydiving injury, even though it’s invisible. At freefall speed the wind exceeds safe levels, and indoor wind tunnels run 115–130 dB, which can damage hearing in seconds without protection.
Yes. The One® passes speech at a safe 85 dB through its dual-filter system, so you stay in contact with your instructor and group while the damaging wind noise is cut — awareness and protection at once.
Yes. The One® has a vented design that lets you equalize pressure as the plane climbs and as you descend rapidly — so you stay comfortable from the door to the ground.
Absolutely. Wind tunnels are extremely loud (115–130 dB) and can damage hearing fast. Our premium indoor kit is built for tunnel flyers, with multiple filter sets and a comms piece.
Two filters: the primary filter reduces wind, engine and voice noise; the secondary filter separates loud peaks that cause pressure and damage. What passes through is safe sound at about 85 dB — protection without isolation.
Solid plugs are $128.95, super-soft is $168.95, the patented filtered The One® is $299.95, two-filter sets are $299.95, the premium indoor kit is $574.95, and Bluetooth stereo earbuds are $399.99. Every set is backed by a perfect-fit guarantee.
Each set is hand-built in the USA from impressions of your ears, taken at one of our 50+ providers or with our mail-in Home Impression Kit.
Every product is backed by a perfect-fit guarantee plus a full warranty and repair program — if the fit isn’t right we remake it, and we repair your Big Ears to keep them serving you for years.
New to custom hearing protection? Tell us how you'll use it and we'll match you to the right product, get your ear impression handled, and walk you through every step.
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How it works
Your ears don't change when you switch hobbies, so your protection shouldn't either. The same custom-molded shell that protects a musician on stage protects a rider at 80 mph, a dentist over a drill, a pilot in the cockpit, and a machinist on the floor. You buy the fit once and adapt it to the moment by changing the filter — not by buying a different product.
"Turn the room down, not off."
The colored, interchangeable filters. Each lowers every frequency by about the same amount, so sound keeps its natural balance — voices, music, and warnings stay clear, just safely quieter. This is what makes the plugs hi-fi. Levels: 9, 15, 20, 25, and 30 dB.
"Open when it's quiet, clamped when it's loud."
A separate, level-dependent filter. It passes normal sound almost untouched so you keep full situational awareness, then automatically tightens against sudden, dangerous peaks — a gunshot, a backfire, an impact. Protection arrives only when the noise spikes.
Every off-the-shelf product makes you pick one behavior and live with it. Because the Big Ear shell is custom and the filters are interchangeable, you carry both and match the filter to the environment in seconds. No foam plug, and no single-filter "musician" plug, can match that range at this fidelity.
Maximum sealed silence. No filter path — the custom shell simply blocks. For sleep, heavy machinery, or any time you want the most reduction and don't need to hear in.
Adaptive protection that keeps you connected to sound while protecting you, with the filter swapped to the situation. Choose this when you still need to hear — with studio-grade clarity.
| Tier | Price | What you get | Who it's for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | $224.95 | The custom filtered shell + one flat-attenuation filter of your choice. | You know the one environment you need. |
| Select | $299.95 | The shell + any two flat-attenuation filters you pick. | You move between two settings and want to swap. |
| Premium | $574.95 | The shell + all five flat filters + the non-linear filter + solid Full-Stop blockers + a tactical radio earpiece. The complete system. | You want every environment covered out of the box, from hi-fi listening to dead silence. |
The shell and fit are identical across all three — what you buy up the ladder is range. Start at Standard and add filters anytime; you're never locked in.