welcome back everybody today we have a hearing protection review for you on deck these are active hearing protection from the folks over at axel i've had these in for probably over a year now you guys have seen them in several videos i've replaced the batteries several times so we have a lot of hours with these things stuck on my head and i have a pretty good impression of what they can and cannot do and their feature set so with that let's get up close and personal and take a look here at this set of hearing protection before we continue on i want to thank the sponsor of today's video and that is nagr the national association for gun rights right now they're giving away this very armored scout vehicle that i'm sitting in obviously it's very cool obviously they're out there doing the good work every day to preserve our second amendment rights and get back the rights that we've lost over the years as well uh if you want to sign up for the giveaway and support nagr there's a link down below in the video description again thanks for sponsoring the video let's get on with it as you can see here the muffs have the ability to fold up nice and compact it does have an auxiliary input as well so that way if you don't want to use the bluetooth that we'll talk about here in just a second and you want to just run on and in for audio you can do so once we expand them out you'll see that there's two different feature sets on each set of the months so over here is kind of where we have all of our controls and then over here is where we have our battery compartment as well as microphones so if you pop that open i have two aaa batteries in there that power the unit and then you just close it down and on this side is kind of where all the magic happens so the on button is going to be right here this switch i don't know if my microphone will pick it up but it has a nice tactile audible click to it the same when you're turning it off so uh the actual amplification that these muffs have is way more than most i have a ton of electronic hearing protection out there these things can get really really loud which can be a benefit i suppose if you're out listening for game or something like that on a stock but it amplifies up to NUMBER_TOKEN db which is eight times what you naturally hear so it's pretty impressive in that regard now over here we have this button which is our bluetooth connector and when you press it the bluetooth light will come on as you see it will connect and then at that point once it connects to your device this knob right here the smaller wheel that controls the volume of what you're connected to on bluetooth so again it can get really loud which is nice but it's a separate control so this is what you're hearing from around you that cuts off at NUMBER_TOKEN db so that way if you have gunshots or any loud noises it will cut that off in NUMBER_TOKEN seconds so really fast in that regard but again separate control for bluetooth which i really like i film a lot of videos where i'm wearing these and i'm always listening to the radio but you know you guys can never hear it which is nice so it gives me something to listen to while i'm out there on the range
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN before we continue on i want to thank the sponsor of today's video and that is nagr the national association for gun rights right now they're giving away this very armored scout vehicle that i'm sitting in obviously it's very cool obviously they're out there doing the good work every day to preserve our second amendment rights and get back the rights that we've lost over the years as well uh if you want to sign up for the giveaway and support nagr there's a link down below in the video description again thanks for sponsoring the video let's get on with it as END_SPONSOR_TOKEN