Anyone who has ever worked extensively in a garage, machine shop or running heavy equipment appreciates the value of hearing protection.

And anyone who has ever worn hearing protection can understand how preferable listening to music or a radio show or an audio book can be to highly muffled white noise.

Enter Plugfones, the first safety earplug-audio headphone hybrid to meet federal OSHA standards for a 25-decibel level noise reduction.

They are designed for a wide variety of hearing-protection applications, and are available in both soft foam or silicone, along with replaceable tips to help ensure a long-lasting, protective and comfortable fit.

We can think of hundreds of times we’d liked to have had these. And now we can.

Summit Racing tech advisor Carl Pritts shares more in this video: