I was happy to see Drew Brees and the Saints win the Super Bowl. I got even more excited when they showed him holding up his 1 year old son sporting noise-cancelling headphones!! We have a pair of these, too; in fact, it was the first present we received after we got pregnant. Chris and many of our friends play a lot of music and we're thrilled that our boy can enjoy music without destroying his ears. We'll let him do that on his own terms when he's a teenager :)
Here's an interesting article from NYTimes about protecting little ears... Want a Better Listener? Protect Those Ears