I think the Alpine ones are the ones ChrisB and I use....Chris?? If so, I don't know about him, but I always use the highest level (gold) except when I've lost them or inadvertently put them through the washing machine, in which case I use the silvers (next one down). I use them all the time, they're totally comfortable and they do cut the noise to comfortable levels. You can ease them in and out when you want to adjust what you can hear; you don't even need to take them out. You can see them a bit, but they're not massively obvious. I think it's mainly the coloured plug at the end which is visible as a spot disappearing into your ear.
I don't know anything about attentuating ear plugs - what's the difference between them and the others?
...Music is always too loud for me, with very few exceptions, and I get tinnitus for the next 8 hours or so if I don't use them. In my experience, DJs don't want to turn the sound down, or if they do, it's by very little, and then they turn it straight up again. Most people don't seem affected at a venue even if I'm actually in pain from the noise, so I don't ask that often now.
I don't know this makes me especially sensitive, but my hearing isn't as good as it used to be in conversation so I'm probably going deaf anyway...
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