Listening to sound that is pushed up a tube can leave some room for error. Sound quality: In a sensitive situation you want to get it right. Even the guy in the sweat suit sitting on the park bench who has a coiled earpiece is hard to miss.ģ. Covertness: As mentioned earlier if you want to see who is protecting the president look for the coiled earpiece. The earHero covert tactical earpiece uses speakers that are smaller than the average ear canal and so there is very little contact.Ģ. Most of these agents are connected to a radio 12-16 hours a day and some will actually have the earpiece draped over the ear and hanging out with the volume of the radio turned up so they don’t have to have that thing plugged in the ear all day. Comfort: The number one dislike for the coiled tube earpiece is the lack of comfort, and a term that many agents use to describe this feeling is ear fatigue. When asked what they don’t like about the old traditional coiled tube earpiece we found 5 main reasons.ġ. has worked with the secret service over the past 2 years and supplied over 300 agents with the earHero covert tactical earpiece. The unfortunate thing about that little tube is it is so noticeable that the bad guys have a better chance of knowing who the good guys are than the good guys knowing who the bad guys are. This is how they monitor what is going on around them, where they need to be next and what dangers are out there.

When we think of a US Secret Service agent we think of black suits, dark sunglasses and that coiled tube thing that goes into their ear.

Spy agent ear