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I use ear protection in the workshop but not on site at the moment. The early Fein in particular really gets to me though. It's not uncommon to come home a bit deaf in any case and I'm trying to stop doing that as much these days.
I look at the battery one but as much as the cable takes time to sort out it never really bothers me that much. I would probably find the batteries run down between use which would give me a problem every time I went to use it anyway.
I've got 2 of the corded ones. I bought the latest low vibration ones having had the older noisier one for years. I got to the point where the noise would get to me so badly I hated using it. Later version cured that. The Fein ones are great.