Launching through crowd-funding site Kickstarter, worldwide call for the product has been proved with the campaign achieving its £25,000 target within 44 hours. Isolate is currently rated number one in the UK and number eight in the world on Kickstarter's project popularity list. The campaign runs until 15 August 2016.
Projected to achieve 1240% of its funding goal at time of press, Isolate's technology will now be available worldwide, with KS backers being able to secure pairs ahead of general release at an introductory price.
Traditional earplugs rely on absorption to attenuate sound, which rapidly meets its limit particularly with bass frequencies. Isolate protectors reflect sound away from the ears and therefore achieve much greater attenuation, as they do not accept sound into the ear canal.
Delivered with Flare's discreet and stylish custom designed memory foam tips Earfoams, Isolate dramatically reduces sound without muffling or distortion. Live music sounds clearer, with increased detail and at safer listening levels. Ears are protected from loud noise that could otherwise damage your hearing.
Live music professionals and music studio engineers "will particularly appreciate the ability of Isolate to block very low frequencies from entering their ears. Traditional ear plugs and defenders do not block the lowest frequencies, creating a muffled sound which, as well as being unpleasant to listen to, leaves wearers feeling disconnected or even 'underwater'".
"I designed Flare Isolate with your listening pleasure in mind," says Flare director Davies Roberts. "By using our own patent-pending technology I discovered that I could create ear protectors that don't absorb sound - they block it, giving the user the sensation that they have simply lowered the volume. Using Flare Isolate at a concert is really something else. You can hear every instrument, every detail at a safe low level like never before."
Available in aluminium and titanium with a choice of colour or even coated with gold or platinum, Isolate ear protectors are reusable; the main component (the aluminum or titanium body) will last a lifetime. Its bespoke memory foam replaceable tips, Earfoams are extremely soft yet hard-wearing, available in small, medium or large for the ultimate comfort fit. Each pair comes with a set of each size.
(Jim Evans)
