Patent ID: 8503688

Claim:
A device to enhance noise reduction and to receive an ear bud, and said ear bud including a speaker, comprising: a headband coupled to one or more ear pads, said one or more ear pads being formed of a visco-elastic foam providing sound absorption and noise reduction to the received ear bud, said one or more ear pads including a rim and said rim of said one or more ear pads is adapted to receive said ear bud and said rim is positioned around the received said ear bud to allow the received said ear bud including said speaker to protrude from said one or more ear pads; a base, said base being attached to said one or more ear pads and said base being coupled to said headband, and wherein said base compresses said one or more ear pads and said one or more ear pads are adapted to cover the external surface of the tragus and antitragus for compression of the tragus and antitragus of the ear and to create a partially isolated chamber of the external auditory canal in which the received said ear bud rests.