My wife and I are new gun owners. We just purchased a set of ear protection Axil Trackr Blu. I know now they are just rebranded Alibaba ear muffs like the ones you can get on amazon called Prohear 030. I didn't pay full price (50% off their retail price) but still a little more then basically the same ones from amazon.
I just got them yesterday so I can defiantly still return them.
My problem with them is this. We went to an indoor shooting range yesterday. We both had in ear plugs and these muffs over them. While inside the actual shooting area we couldn't hear each other at all. I'm guessing there must have been some loud ambient noise in there besides the actual shooting or some type of interference. The internal speaker was basically off the entire time we were in the shooting area. Maybe they had a loud filtration system running in there or it was electronic interference from something.
As soon as we walked into the lobby area we could hear each other again though the internal speakers.
These ear muffs are supposed to only block sound above 82 db from playing in the internal speaker but it seems like when they hear anything above 82 they completely just shut off. They are supposed to have compression technology according to their website
"AUTOBLOCKER TECHNOLOGY COMPRESSES ALL SOUNDS OVER 82 DB"
But in reality it just blocks everything when loud noise is detected. I just did a test using a power drill while talking to myself, when the drill is putting out a loud noise the ear protection turns off the internal speaker completely instead of just blocking the loud sound everything is blocked. Which is clipping technology correct not compression?
Is this what all brands do? When there is a loud sudden noise or constant loud background noise the internal speakers just turn off? Instead of just blocking the loud part only allowing voices to still come through?
Also the actual passive noise reduction on the Axil's is considerably less then a set of Walker Dual Colored Passive Muff rated at NRR 26
The reason is Axil rates theirs as SNR 27 and has no NRR rating that I saw but the basically identical Prohear 030 rates theirs as NRR 22dB/SNR 27dB. When I purchased the Axils, one of the main reasons I bought them was the higher DB rating and I didn't realize SNR and NRR are different until after I got them.
I just got them yesterday so I can defiantly still return them.
My problem with them is this. We went to an indoor shooting range yesterday. We both had in ear plugs and these muffs over them. While inside the actual shooting area we couldn't hear each other at all. I'm guessing there must have been some loud ambient noise in there besides the actual shooting or some type of interference. The internal speaker was basically off the entire time we were in the shooting area. Maybe they had a loud filtration system running in there or it was electronic interference from something.
As soon as we walked into the lobby area we could hear each other again though the internal speakers.
These ear muffs are supposed to only block sound above 82 db from playing in the internal speaker but it seems like when they hear anything above 82 they completely just shut off. They are supposed to have compression technology according to their website
"AUTOBLOCKER TECHNOLOGY COMPRESSES ALL SOUNDS OVER 82 DB"
But in reality it just blocks everything when loud noise is detected. I just did a test using a power drill while talking to myself, when the drill is putting out a loud noise the ear protection turns off the internal speaker completely instead of just blocking the loud sound everything is blocked. Which is clipping technology correct not compression?
Is this what all brands do? When there is a loud sudden noise or constant loud background noise the internal speakers just turn off? Instead of just blocking the loud part only allowing voices to still come through?
Also the actual passive noise reduction on the Axil's is considerably less then a set of Walker Dual Colored Passive Muff rated at NRR 26
The reason is Axil rates theirs as SNR 27 and has no NRR rating that I saw but the basically identical Prohear 030 rates theirs as NRR 22dB/SNR 27dB. When I purchased the Axils, one of the main reasons I bought them was the higher DB rating and I didn't realize SNR and NRR are different until after I got them.