you've heard me go on and on before about the champion vanquish hearing protectors to
me these are kind of the gold standard for hearing protection they are extremely comfortable because
of their ear shape which is strange that there haven't been more of these out in the industry
these actually do completely surround the ear they seal up really well they keep out a lot of ambient
sound and the sound reproduction in here including just its eq the way that it reproduces the
sounds is totally off the charts you get a huge stereo field and it feels after a little while
like you're not even wearing hearing protection anymore you're just hearing everything around you
these are brilliant and we're going to use these to kind of contrast against something that's
completely different those are wonderful but they are huge and they don't go into every situation
sometimes they're just big to be uh taking out into the wilderness and sometimes you just want
something that's a little bit easier to pack so we're going to be taking a look today at the AXIL
gs extreme and everything fits into this one little case every park of it actually
first off you're going to see that we have a usb cable that's how this is powered plug this into
any kind of usb powered device and any charger and it's going to charge up the battery that's inside
here and you will not only be able to use these as electronic hearing protectors but these will
actually connect to your phone as well you can get your audio from your phone both in and out so you
have a microphone built in here remember that this is hearing protection it's built to pick up your
ambient sound and bring it in so it can actually take that sound you talking whatever it is and
then send it back to your phone as well so you can make calls with this side of it the other side is
going to be the hearing protection side there have been some reviews out there where people i guess
didn't really pay attention to the instructions on the inside you have to have these in your ear
before you actually switch them on so i'm going to go ahead and crush the foam down on here i'm
going to i'm going to use the foam because that's going to be the most effective for today's use
so once these are firmly inside the ear then you can switch it on and the system will kind of
adapt to pick up the sounds around it's a pretty smart system and it comes on actually
pretty quickly i can hear myself pretty well right now there are two buttons on this side
so i can increase the volume or decrease it and at its lowest level this is
louder than what ambient noise would normally be i'm hearing more than i normally would
although it's rolling off the louds pretty quickly so that's kind of nice it keeps everything just
sort of middle of the road that's kind of neat i don't really hear any big hot spots of you know
hears a loud sound it kind of crushes everything very quickly and very seamlessly some of the
things that i'm going to be listening for here today i want to hear what the the overall tone is
so i want to hear if my lows are sounding pretty good if the highs are good and to do that i'm
going to be using that little blackfire speaker again because this actually does produce a really
good range of tones is that usually you will stick okay i'm definitely hearing a lot of the high
stage inside the chamber and you will start to thread the barrel on for mids are pretty good
figure out where it's going to uh stop come to a stop on that hid's are definitely lower
and then as we get down into the really low end i can i can hear it pop way down
low but some of the uh the mid tones like speaking tones uh they seem a little thuddy
like it's missing maybe around 200 hertz somewhere in there it'd be interesting to
be able to translate what i hear into uh an eq chart yeah it's picking it up really well
act and i can hear a decent stereo field right now like i can tell they're birds
on the right side okay and as i put my head around i can hear different kinds of sounds
down to my feet i can hear the grass rustling so i'd be able to hear some twigs and i'm stepping
this would be good for stalking out or you know getting out to a location to hunt and if i were to
crank this up oh there we go yeah now i can hear really well i can hear all the little rustlings of
branches and stuff and i can hear the wind hitting these pretty good as well
so these are going to be affected pretty hard by the wind
the champion ones are actually like that too i think they need a little bit of fuzz
over the microphones in order to cancel out some wind noise but that's livable okay i'm gonna go
ahead and crank this down just a little bit i'll leave it about halfway so i'm kind of pegging with
my voice right now but let's hear what a gum shock sounds like hey check it out guys this
time i'm wearing eye protection how about that yeah so i've got my nine millimeter right here
and i've got a tahr get 50 yards away okay that crushed everything just fine no ringing of the
ears uh those foam plugs are working just great so yeah it's canceling out the noise
it hits really quickly and it comes back on very quickly i will say this though there is
a definite point where i can hear it snap back on it's not the most natural thing in the world
some of these are going to have different attack points and they're going to have a
different release as well this one has a very sharp release it cuts off that sound
and then suddenly snaps it back up so yeah it's not going to be the most smooth transition but it
seems to be pretty quick i'm going to try one more shock just to get that sound in my ears
it's so quick that i can barely detect it that's actually really nice
the sound itself is a little bit distorted once you get up high it kind of clips a little bit
but it doesn't hurt the ears everything sounds great now let's try 357 mag numb
that handled it pretty good that one pegged my left ear just a little tiny bit barely
i could hear just a tiny ring that one did sock it pretty good but uh overall
nice yeah i was able to hear that sound come back uh to be able to hear the impact so i think that
based on what we've done here i think this would work really well
uh for hunting all kinds of hunting i think it'd be good for rivals it'd be good for pistils
and probably the best thing about this is that it's handy it's small everything fits into this
tiny little guy right here you could drop this into a pocket put it in your your go bag into
your backpack like my hunting pack that i have right here put it keep it in my range bag this is
something that could kind of go with me anywhere i want that is pretty darn cool i'm not hearing any
of the feedback issues that other people were talking about and i think that's because i did
install them correctly oh here comes an airplane sounds like it's behind me oh there we go
so the stereo field gets a little bit weird when it's overhead i heard some geese back here that
had kind of a funky effect as well if i turn my head i can definitely hear which side it's from
but when it's over or behind it gets a little bit strange but yeah seal of approval from me i do
really like these before i go i'm going to check one more feature i have my phone here with me
and this is bluetooth capable i've never actually tried connecting this okay this is super cool
since i had this in my ear when i set it up and i didn't get any of that feedback when i pull it out
i still don't get feedback so it's not going to go scaring any animals if this falls out of my ear at
some point so there you go there's a handy tip for you read the instruction manual all right let's
take a look at how to set up the bluetooth on this and i'm supposed to press and hold this button
there we go and i just heard power on in my ear now i'll scan for bluetooth devices
aha there it is Axil ghost strike that's what the gs stands for
sweet okay let's go listen to that handsome man again
ah interesting okay i was wondering about this there are two reasons why you might have a
different sound inside your ear versus what you hear in the natural world like a different eq
if you're getting different highs and lows it could be the driver that's inside it could be
the speaker that's inside here or it could be the microphone i think in this case it's really the
microphone because this sounds pretty darn good in my ear this is something that would be just fine
if i was at an airport watching videos listening to stuff it's certainly favoring the mids to highs
but the lows aren't too bad either it's not going to be something for listening to your
bass heavy music but i could easily listen to a book being read now for audible just kidding
i don't do audible all right here's one of the really cool things i can hear myself and i can
hear the ambient noise all around me through here as i'm listening to my phone at the same time
so i can actually hear both if i wanted to have a conversation with somebody like keep in contact
with a buddy that's out hunting and be able to hear animals then i could do that that would
actually work that's kind of neat to be able to use this not only as hearing protection but as
columns at the same time that's really cool well that's it short and simple i would give this two
thumbs up if i still had that other oh there it is there's another yeah i give it two thumbs up
some of the equipment that we use today let me point these out smith and wesson m p 9 2.0 this
is the long version i love this pistil this is my favorite pistil of all time right now
and then this is my taurus model 66 that i've been testing for a very long time
testing i'm using it i love this thing i've broken this in really well the double action pull
is quite a bit better than it used to be and hey check this out ready
nice and smooth and there was nothing in there
thanks a lot for coming out with me here today guys this was a lot of fun i just don't get to
chute pistils often enough i know we're supposed to be hoarding ammo but i can't help it it's it's
just too much fun i think i'm going to hit some tahr gets here as soon as i say goodbye
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