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What you need to know about your hearing health and wired earbuds, and why this Kickstarter campaign emphatically gets…

Brand called Saccater lists 'aéra' IEMs on Kickstarter...
... and very quickly jumps past funding targets
Designed to protect your hearing (and they look good too)

About one third of adults in the UK, and a similar number in the US, have some kind of hearing loss (according to RNID and Hearing Health Foundation respectively).

It stands to reason that those little music-playing speakers we place into our ear canals, really rather close to our ear drums (with their ever increasing driver sizes and/or driver counts nestled into the headshells) don't exactly help. But one company is offering something of an alternative.

On Kickstarter, a brand called Saccater has unveiled some new in-ear monitors called aéra. These are audiophile-friendly buds with 9.6mm planar magnetic drivers, silver-plated copper wire and dual-sided concentric coils, but with some added extra considerations to protect your hearing.

That fits with Saccater's other Kickstarter projects;...

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