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Over 250,000 professional musicians in the United States are exposed to unsafe levels of sound during rehearsals and performances. Excessive levels of stage monitors have been the leading cause of ringing in the ears (tinnitus), loudness hypersensitivity (hyperacusis), and hearing loss in musicians.

Battles between on-stage monitors can take its toll on your sound engineer as well as your ears. If you are wondering if you will survive with your hearing, let alone your band friendships intact, you need to take a close look at In-Ear Monitors.

In-Ear Monitoring is changing the way live music is performed. High-fidelity miniature speakers inserted into custom earmolds provide individual control for each musician over the instrumental and vocal mix. In order for In-Ear Monitors to be effective they must provide acoustic isolation from external sound while providing the full dynamic range of the music without exposure to ear-shattering levels.

Sensaphonics Hearing Conservation has developed In-Ear monitors that integrate high fidelity sound with an ear for hearing conservation. Weighing less than one ounce, the Sensaphonics Pro-Phonic IV In-Ear Monitors provide an accurate reproduction of the average eardrum response in a diffuse field. They have a frequency range extending from 20 Hz (two additional octaves lower than most high accuracy open earphones) to 18kHz. The frequency response of the tiny speakers has been designed specifically for In-Ear Monitoring by Etymotic Research. (the folks who brought you Musician’s Earplugs). These miniature speakers are inserted into soft custom earmolds and provide 26 dB of isolation from stage sound. Sensaphonics also makes a second model that is constructed in a custom hard acrylic shell, The Prophonic 6000. It is designed for performers who need less on-stage isolation and provides up to 15 dB of sound isolation.

Established in 1985, Sensaphonics has become an industry recognized leader in providing high fidelity hearing protection for musician.

Some musicians who have used Sensaphonics:

Abra Moore	AC/DC	Atari Teenage Riot
Back Street Boys	Beastie Boys	Beck
Ben Harper	Big Head Todd and the Monsters	BlackStreet
Blue Man Group	Bodeans	Boyz II Men
Bush	Carmen Ministries	Cirque Du Soleil
Collective Soul	Counting Crows	Dahr Jamail
Dave Matthews Band	Days of the New	DC Cooper
Everclear	Freddy Jones Band	Freedy Johnston
Garbage	Garth Brooks Band	Genesis
Hanson	James Bonamy	Janes Addiction
Janet Jackson	Jefferson Starship	Jerry Cantrell
Jerry's Kids	Joe Satriani	Joyce Meyer Ministries
Keith Sweat	Korn	Ken Nordine
Lenny Kravitz	Liquid Soul	Liz Phair
Los Tigres Del Norte	Luther Vandross	Matchbox 20
Metallica	Michael Bolton	Mickey Raphael
Moody Blues	Mudvayne	Natalie Imbruglia
Natalie Merchant	N Sync	New Addition
Oak Ridge Boys	Our Lady Peace	Pam Tillis Band
Pat Metheny Group	Paula Cole	Phish
Poi Dog Pondering	Primus	Puff Daddy
Queensryche	Rage Against the Machine	Randy Travis
Rhett Aikins	REO Speedwagon	Ricochet
Rockola	Rodney Atkins	Rush
Rusted Root	Santana	Sarah McLachlan
Savage Garden	Sawyer Brown	Semi Sonic
Sister Hazel	Seal	Smash Mouth
Smashing Pumpkins	Sonia Dada	String Cheese Incident
Tea Party	The Artist	The Other Ones
The Verve Pipe	38 Special	Tim McGraw Band
Toad The Wet Sprocket	Toby Keith	Tonic
Tragically Hip	U2	Vanessa Williams
Weezer	Zero dB