i hope today's test makes it clear to you guys how much i love you
look this is real ham oh and i'm really going to fire it today just for you
if you want to rescue it i'll start the bidding at 50 bucks partial box of 9 millimeter 115 grain
any takers no okay well fine we'll i'll just cry a little bit every time i take a shock i'm going
to be using this and 357 mag numb down here some of my hand loads so that we can test something
that i've been really curious about for a year i saw some advertisements for this a while back
and i wondered if it could possibly work these are ear plugs and they look pretty normal these
have your silicone baffles they stick in your ear like normal but these guys claim that you can hear
sounds around you with only a reduction of five decibels on this particular model and
once you get an impulse sound like a gum firing or somebody dropping something somebody clapping
then there's something that they call dynamic mesh on the inside that's supposed to kind of close it
up and protect your hearing so you can kind of be going about your normal daily whatever and hearing
pretty well and then suddenly these will seal shut if you get a loud sound we're gonna find out here
today my ears are very important to me i've gone over some some other hearing protectors in the
past i've been a musician for a while with the trumpet sitting right behind me and i've had to
have some nice earplugs to keep myself safe and then now that i'm out here shoeing i definitely
want to check these out we have three different models we're going to test here today the reactors
are the simplest and smallest ones we'll begin with this and see if they actually function first
i want to hear if i actually can hear ambient noise and then see if they do close up when i
take the shock i'm going to be cringing just a little bit not just because i'm losing ham oh
one thing you'll notice about these ear plugs right off the bat is that they don't have a
stalk to grab instead you have this drum body inside here and i think that's where
that dynamic mesh is living instead you get this little silicone tab that you can pull out
okay that is kind of creepy i can still hear pretty well out of that ear it keeps
i keep feeling like it's not actually seated because i can hear too much
okay i can still hear quite a bit of ambient sound i can hear the geese back there the wind
is coming across the uh the diaphragms here so that's you know kind of creating some noise
yeah i can still he there's definitely a drop i can i can hear quite a bit of uh drop there but
it's still way more than i would get with other ear plugs to test this out a little bit i brought
a speaker this is a little blackfire portable speaker for bluetooth and everybody thinks that i
like the smell of my own farts and the sound of my own voice so here you go flat back slap in
another round it sounds like the testers right now are having a lot of fun with it i did not request
one of these rivals i'm going to turn this down until i can see here not here really well it's
a reminder of what we do here on this channel and kind of to indicate why i haven't requested it all
right right now you can probably hear what's in the speaker and i can't understand what i'm saying
on this and this chutes completely differently
wonderful wonderful rival okay now i can clearly understand what i'm saying
and you can hear that versus the ambient noise out here
one of the things i'm going to be listening for is first off i don't want it to ring my bell i'd
rather this not be a very loud experience and when i hit the target down there that steel
it's 50 yards away i'm hoping that this will recover pretty quickly and i can
hear the smack on the gong out there let's see if it does and let's see if i can hit it today
okay not bad i can hear a helicopter off in the distance quite well i can hear some geese flying
over that way and i could very clearly hear that hit on the gong uh it reacts very quickly i guess
it just closes instantaneously for that impulse and then bounces right back so yeah at a distance
of 50 yards that sounded just fine let's try 357 mag numb today i'm using the taurus model
66 six inch revolver 357 mag numb and i have some hand loads with spear 158 grain deep curl mullets
i love 357 mag numb right in the heart all right now that one did ring my ears a little bit this
is going to be a whole lot louder you have gases blowing out the sides you have a bigger powder
charge and it's uh yeah a 357 mag numb is just going to be a lot louder that did ring some so in
this case i probably would want to double up we'll see if any of the other models have a different
sound though quick note as soon as i popped these out i could hear the frogs back there just behind
the berm when i had these in i couldn't hear them next up the xp defenders which look very similar
and come in the same sort of packaging but these have little buttons on them so if i press this to
open it that's going to only reduce sound by 10 decibels press it down that's 18 decibels
and then it also has a dynamic mesh so no matter which one you're in the 10 or the 18 when that
impulse sound hits it's going to knock it down to i think 33 decibels these have two different sizes
of silicone plugs this is a large one for my ears if maybe you have some smaller shoe tars there are
some smaller ones for thinner ear canals i can hear an airplane off in the distance that way
it sounds like it's pretty far off i can't hear the frogs
i can hear some birds off that way maybe it sounds like some ducks
things with it maybe switch around chamberings what's going on at the front of the action
is where there's a whole lot more i can still hear at the same level
as with the reactors and about the same distance with the speaker
but it definitely is reduced it sounds mushier
it's a little bit more difficult for me to hear what i'm saying
now let's try the 18. if we close these up that'd probably be better for some of
your noisier work environments i think that was it okay yeah yeah
i can certainly hear a lot less this just sounds like regular ear plugs can't really
hear the airplane anymore let's see what this sounds like difficult usually our actions are a
tube of steel like this one right here with the axis or with the 12 fv any of your lemming tons
howas the weather bees yeah that knocked it down a whole lot i really can't hear this much at all
okay so that works if i was working around machinery that would be a good setting
pretty cool now for the impulse test i'm going to switch it back to the 10 db real quick
yeah i can i can definitely hear the airplane over there a lot better now
okay those react quickly and again that one didn't ring my ears
i have a little bit of tinnitus or however you pronounce it uh from certain things like
this but uh yeah with that one it didn't kick it off at all that one didn't ring
right in the side of the head these ones didn't ring my ears as much as the other it could be
that i seated them a little deeper or it could be that it is a bit more effective with the mesh
but no i don't notice any extra ringing so that's a good one right there that's the uh
oops that's the xp defender like it i'm going to go ahead and skip closing these down because
if it works this way when they're open that works yeah now that these are out i can clearly
hear the frogs that way i can hear traffic so we can't get everything but it does pick up a
lot more than you're gonna get with regular ear plugs finally the x-pro you can see these are a
little larger they have these detachable rubber cup sort of things that can fit inside your ear
and it should be a little bit more stable this box is still labeled sport ear that's the name
that the company used to have they changed it to axel but this one has a couple extra tricks
this has a button that you can push to block out ambient sounds if you want so you can go from the
19 decibels you can see right there you can kind of switch this over from i think a 10 to a 19
and then it'll finally block out 30. there's a chart in here that indicates
how much it will reduce based on which tips you use that's the other really cool trick
this has either foam or those silicone baffle type that we saw on the other ones and those
are here inside this little bag looks like we might be about to get some sunlight here in the
background i'm going to use the foam tips i think that we're not going to hear any bigger difference
between the the silicone on here and the silicone on the others but this one is supposedly the the
most effective in here and i just looked at the chart it looks like the most effective these can
be isn't the 30 that's indicated it's actually that it's 29 if you're using these and this has
a push button that you press in to change out if you have if it's more open or if it's closed
it'll still have the dynamic mesh as well and you can actually remove the the guard on here so
if you just want to go for kind of a straight ear plug you can pop that off i'm going to try it with
there's no clear indication on here of whether you're open or closed but i think i can feel it i
think right now it's open oh and i can see there's a slight difference in the height of the stem here
so both of these should be open right now i think this foam is going to be a bear to get in my ear
crushing it down right now and i need to hurry because we have a helicopter going by
okay yeah i can hear okay i can hear that helicopter back there
just like with the others i can't hear the frogs
these seem to do a better job of blocking the wind though i'm not getting a lot of that uh you
know like if you have a microphone and the wind is smacking against it hitting that diaphragm
i don't really pick that up with these it's not steel as soon as i heard that
yeah this just sounds like mush i'll crank it up until i can hear something clearly
you can't really thread a steel barrel i can understand that an aluminum action like that
and expect it to hold up especially these seem to have a different tone quality that doesn't sound
quite right how are they doing this it doesn't seem to favor the high end quite so much and that
might be better when it comes to uh firing these questions for you guys it sounds like i'm getting
a little bit more of a lower thump the fact that all right let's try with them clicked in easier
yeah i can hear that drop these are not easy to press when you're in your
we can't do the ear i think i did it how does that barrel attach to the receiver okay i'm not
detecting a huge difference between pressed in and popped out let's see how this does on impulse
it's supposed to knock things down 29 decibels and that's quite a lot
there's that sunlight that sounded great yeah
yeah that is not easy to push at all it's not like the other ones where you can click
it once it's in your ear i think you have to set this one where you want it and leave it
it doesn't really want to pop in and out
that's fine yeah these behave a lot like normal ear plugs i'd say yeah you can pick up
a little bit more especially if you do have that popped out if it's on its kind of noisy setting
well it just seems to be doing a really good job it was blocking 357 mag numb really well
based on just this little bit of testing i think i have a pretty good idea where i would use each
of these this one seems to be the best range one maybe not so good for hearing some of the
commands out there usually the commands are kind of loud over the speakers or if you have a really
loud range officer these would be pretty good i think especially if you leave them in that more
open position there is a difference between the two not huge but i would leave them more open
and i can hear some of the ambient noise just a little bit better but this is for
if there's going to be a lot of loud sound this is just the most effective one overall
the reactor that first one that doesn't have the button it just has the one setting this
might be a really good hunting one because you can hear the ambient sounds better
i could really tell a difference i could hear all the little stuff out here like ducks and i
could probably hear cracking twigs and all that a lot better with these than i could with these
or at least a little bit better this is probably the most flexible overall i would say this is the
one that i'd i'd be pretty happy to keep on my keychain and carry around everywhere so if i'm
going someplace where maybe it's going to be the drag strip or you know some other kind of racing
if there's going to be loud engines this one's the one that i can kind of close out for some of that
loud ambient noise and then if there are those impulses as well it's going to block it out
so yeah i think overall the defender is my favorite that one is really sweet and flexible for
a whole lot of stuff now why would you want to use these instead of maybe some of the electronic ones
in the next video i'm going to take a listen to the axle gs extreme to see what small electronic
ones are like i'm used to the big over the head here let me pull these out i've talked about these
uh champion over the head protectors before because they are the business
i've taken these out hunting i've taken them to the range and these are about as good as it gets
the sound quality through these is just through the roof you get this massive stereo
feel through these you can hear where each individual sound is coming from and you get
a really good blend everything from your highs all the way to your mids and lows so you hear
everything very realistically from what you would normally hear out in the environment
so if you want to hear the grunts of an animal you want to hear every twig snap
you want to be able to hear your own breathing you can crank these up and keep yourself very
quiet by making yourself artificially louder in these i cannot recommend these highly enough the
champion vanquish are just crazy good but they do have the problem of being really big and sometimes
they don't fit over your super stylish hats so yeah they don't go into every single uh scenario
that i go out into sometimes they just they're not gonna really fit in the pack or anything
and i'd like something a little bit smaller so we're gonna take a look at these see how these do
but yeah comparing these passive ear plugs to these no batteries they're tiny they fit on a
keychain you can just put it on in your pocket and they go with you everywhere
so if you do end up at you know a concert if those ever open up again or sporting event
then you're going to be ready for that and you're going to actually get a pretty good tone quality
that you can set in the ear with some of these so yeah check it out in the next video we're going
to take a listen to these see how these do and i'm kind of curious to hear how they hold up to
the benchmark really those champion vanquish we're gonna hear if
what all we can hear out in this environment and then how will they block the sound out
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lot of fun don't miss that and as i stand out here with my ears perfectly protected i suddenly
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