The Here Active Listening System is somewhere between noise-cancelling headphones and a hearing aid. Using two wireless buds and a smartphone app, the in-ear system from Doppler Labs lets users control and personalize what they hear.

“We all perceive sound differently, but everyone has been to a concert where the audio wasn’t quite right or has been subjected to a long flight with a screaming baby,” Doppler Labs CEO Noah Kraft said in a statement.

“Here changes all that,” he continued, “giving control back to the listener by allowing you to curate what you hear and how you hear it. Our goal is to make it so you never have to deal with noise or a bad mix ever again.”

The buds—available exclusively through Kickstarter(Opens in a new window)—rely on Bluetooth to capture, process, and play back sound (in less than 30 microseconds, Doppler says). They get up to six hours of battery life, plus a charging case with enough juice for two full charges, according to the company. Adjust the volume slider, equalizer, and effects on the mobile app.

Early adopters can visit Doppler’s crowdfunding campaign to order Here—available for a special early bird price of $179. Once 1,000 people claim that price, though, it goes up to $199; get two sets of Here for $359, plus two branded T-shirts and a vote for preset filters. When the Kickstarter campaign ends, they will retail for $249.

New York City-based Doppler is also hoping to entice developers with its $499 dev package, which gets you one Here and access to its platform.

For another $300, you can join the beta team, earning perks like a pre-release pair of earbuds, as well as the official Here Active Listening System; you’ll also gain early access to the dev platform and the chance to work with the Doppler engineering team. Oh, and a T-shirt.

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A few big spenders can dish out $999 for a chance to meet the Doppler team and test a final prototype, $2,500 to party with the Here makers, or a whopping $5,000 (which one personal already did) to create and name your own audio filter.

All perks are expected to ship in December; those who pony up for the pre-release set should receive their buds in October.

As of press time, backers had contributed almost $55,000 with 28 days left to raise $250,000.