From my experience, ear plugs are like bike helmets - not one works for everyone, and they have a certain ones works for them.

I find the bullet shaped ones are the quietest for me, but they only seal properly 20% of the time. I can get the yellow 3M ones in my ear better, so use them. But one of my ears is easy to get a plug inserted and sealed, but the other is much harder, often requiring a second attempt/

I use them there ones too. On the bike, and in bed; so I don't get woken by the baby...my wife does though.

Like you say, very cheap via ebay.

I've got some egard 37bB ear plugs that work like a charm, just squash and roll and insert into the ear canal and the jobs a gud'un. Something I do recommend that people don't do which I see very often is licking the earplugs before putting them in; so lick, squash and roll, then insert. Inner ear infections are not very nice!
If I need I have some Shure in ear earphones which do just as good a job as the dedicated plugs but I do find that the cable often gets snagged or just doesn't have enough reach for full head movement in some cases.

I wear them in the car, especially in my left ear.

When we went to Italy for a holiday and hired a car, I remarked to my other half "My left ear was getting better", to this day I dont know if she got that one.

I go for the cheap £2 3M silicon jobs. They work well enough. Outside sounds are a bit atenuated and it can be hard to understand people talking, but they are cheap, do the job and I can loose them without worrying. I never got on with the disopsable ones. One day I will get myself some propper custom made ones with string so I don't loose them.

I always use them unless I'm nipping in to town (going under 30 mph). I don't realy want to go deaf.

Jesus who would lick their earplugs...

Tastes terrible and causes ear infections, where do I sign up?

Ten past three...

I admit to always moistening mine before insertion, eases things along.

Very weird but I've got to make sure I alway put my earplugs out of sight of my cat. He bloody eats them, loves the things.

I use Howard Leight - Max. High noise reduction, but quite big. They do the Max Lite for those with smaller ear canals.

I'd won't go out for longer than 5 mins on the bike without them.

Best to get a massive box, then they are always close at hand.

Chaps, I have some of these as I am a muso:



They are better for when I am playing than the foam ones as I can hear what I am doing.

However, my new car has a really loud exhaust and after some extended driving even with these plugs in today my ears are ringing

Thought I would ask in here as you guys will know your onions!

What are the best earplugs to attentuate across the frequencies as much as possible? Don't care about hearing voices/radio/etc.

Would the foam ones be better? Am I better getting some of those ones where you mix the compounds together and form your own earplugs?

Our dog eats them too, must be the springyness they like?