Hello

    I have decided out of desperation to try the list because of the incredible fount of knowledge that resides here. My dilemma is as follows. I have some incredibly nice coats made by an outfit called Sev/Scottevest. They come with inside pockets for books, maps, and you name it and have a lining designed so that you can route wires from mp3 players or telephones all over the place. In particular you can put a mp3 in an accessible pocket - I tend to listen to lectures rather than music - route the earplugs up thru the lining and then to your ears. The earplugs themselves can then be placed in an inner pocket when not in use. My suspicion is that the way you are intended to do this is to route the earplugs to one side of the head and taking one of the plugs around the head or under the chin to the other ear (I hope that is clear) outside the coat. Unfortunately I have always wished to do it otherwise.
     I wish to route the earplugs up through the lining to the back of the neck. Then take the right and left earplug and separately route them through the collar (which you can do) and hence up to separate ears. It turns out that most earplugs are too short to do this; that is, the strands of cable that bifurcate into separate plugs are too short. You can get them to your ears, but if you turn your head they fall out. I have tried many, many sets of earplugs (the only pair I got to work was a cheap, no longer produced  Radio Shack pair, that had, in effect, dual strands all the way up from the plug - sort of like electrical cord - and I just separated the strands a bit more than usual). I have resorted to soldering in about 5" of cable into each earplug strand, but that is far from fun. So my question is does anybody know of a reasonable brand of earplug that either has somewhat longer than usual bifurcating strands up to the ears or can be (as that Radio Shack pair)  moderately easily modified to have such. There must be a pair out there.

Ed Wall