Empire E-Vent

[Luscious]

I like these as a cheap mask, and the soft ears make wearing glasses a nice prospect. I feel the price, and easily swapped out lens push them (very slightly) towards ProFlex stardom but slightly less customisable.

However, today I have discovered that ProFlex (JT) straps fit! You do need to cut off the old strap around each plastic clip and then thread through each ProFlex strap with a bit of force- I used needle nosed pliers.

Yes, the mask has had its nose pierced incase you were wondering. Nice cheap, comfy mask to customise 😁. Wish they would bring out a pink lens 😍

[BrickHaus]

I liked my events when I had a pair. Only beef was that the lens gasket ran into prime FOV real-estate. I honestly only sold it because a buddy asked me to sell it to him. Nice tip on using og straps though!

[alpha_q_up]

Just a note, I'm not sure if the mask in the pictures was marketed to you as "Empire E-Vents" but everywhere I've seen it's been marketed in the US as an "Empire E-Flex". The "E-Vents" utilize the same lense, are a bit seeker, and do not have a the JT Flex style lowers. Regardless both are great masks and have probably the best lense system ever made.

[RhoXi]

These are E-vents 2.0. Basically an E-flex but with a hard skirt. They just came out late last year I think.

[alpha_q_up]

Interesting! I had no idea they released a new version of E-Vents, I'm curious about the hard skirt, any idea if it's like the new jt "proshield" hard?

[RhoXi]

As far as I know it's very similar to the new Proshields but I haven't owned either so I can't say for sure. I can't imagine them being too different though.

[FullContactUSA]

The old school e-vents were my all time favorite.

[Trbo323]

Yeah that's an e-flex in the photo

*Cracks useless knowledge knuckles*

Here's the rundown, ALL these masks use the same lenses and as far as I know, straps

On the bottom end is the helix, they made it both in a single pane lens and helix thermal version. Fairly stiff foam, great rental masks, ears are molded into the rest of the mask as plastic



E-vents, separate foam ears, dual layer foam on your face. Many of the lines are the same as the helix but TYPICALLY are 2 colors instead of one


E-flex, completely different frame, separate lowers and are compatible with original JT flex lowers. The empire lowers reportedly are a little more off of your face allowing for more space under the mask



In finding these photos I did notice a few sites that are mislabeling the flex as the e-vents. Pretty amateur mistake honestly considering they look very different


If you need to wear glasses under your mask the e-vents or flex are probably two of the best options out there.


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[Trbo323]

Ok this is annoying, thanks GI

Apparently, empire has just renamed the e-flex to the e-vents. Because that's not confusing at all

https://shop.gisportz.com/collections/empire-goggles

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[RhoXi]

That link is for the new e-vents with the solid skirt. They still have the e-flex listed on their site, albeit sold out. Why they had to go and make the new e-vent look exactly like the e-flex is beyond me.

https://shop.gisportz.com/products/empire-e-flex-goggle

[Bow]

Would you happen to know if the ears are the same as the Eflex, they look identical but you never know.

[Tracker]

As somebody who had one of the gen 1 e-vents and a pair of e-flexes still. I don't see any reason why the solid skirt events would be different given the way the ear interfaces with the lens retention system