Walker's TACTI Grip Series

I've been using their non powered protection for a while. These work just as well, but you can still here range commands and conversations. You almost hear too much talking really. I keep them at the lowest level because I don't really care to hear the opinions of the guy 4 lanes over. Mics cut out perfectly when they need to.

These are amazing. The sound quality and how well they pick up from a distance at the same time muffle gun shots. My girls wore them around the house the first night I got them.

Used a couple times in outdoor shooting area in the desert. First time using these and very impressed you can talk and hear without taking these off and it softens the loud bangs. It works so well, just don't fart as you can hear it a mile away using these. Could also be used for eavesdropping if you really wanted to.

Comfortable for extended wear. These are amazing,. I suffer from low grade hearing loss and they amplify well enough that I hear my son whisper at fifty feet in a ten plus mph wind. The protection they provide is tremendous. The only drawback I can find is the wind noise is a little annoying. Used them while firing a Ruger SFAR which is very loud and they work like a charm. Definitely recommend.

Out the box, these muffs were uncomfortably tight, but I've found that to be the case with ever type I've ever tried. A few days spent stretching on a stack of books, basketball, etc. usually makes them more comfortable and that was the case with these. The pads around the ears are very soft and feel good for long periods although the material doesn't breath at all, so be prepared to sweat a little if you're not able to periodically remove them. The speaker sound system is...fine. It definitely allows you to hear the environment around you but it doesn't provide the sound localization you have with normal hearing, i.e., you can't create a mental picture of your environment and the location of things in it from the sounds around you because everything comes through a single speaker in each ear, which creates a flat reproduction of the ambient sounds. There's no texture or dimensionality to the sound. It's rather like being underwater, and the feeling is amplified (no pun intended) by the fact that when there isn't any ambient sound you'll hear your own breathing. Really distinctly. To the point of distraction. The compression effect for loud sounds works well enough, but that brings me to my only real complaint with these muffs, and my reason for deducting a star: they don't reduce the sound of gun fire quite enough, and I bought them to wear while shooting. They're definitely better than shooting with no ear protection at all, and the noise reduction was sufficient for shooting small caliber pistols. But I first noticed a slightly uncomfortable level of sound was reaching my ears when I started banging away with the .357, and after a couple rounds of 7.62 I switched out to my cheaper, less comfortable, but much quieter shooter's muffs that I've been using for a while. The next guns to be fired were a 30-06 and a 308 and I didn't want to find out what those sounded like with the Walker's on. So for, say, power tool use or other industrial applications these muffs would probably be ideal: they're comfortable, give you pretty good environmental awareness because of the speakers, and sufficiently muffle moderately loud sound--I wish I'd had them when I was learning to play the drums, I could have worn them when practicing and saved my hearing to be ruined at actual gigs. But for very loud sounds like rifle fire, I found them to be not quite enough protection.

Worked great! I was surprised at how much you can hear with these and yet still block out loud noise. I bought these for a shooting competition and was able to easily carry a conversation with people while the shooting was going on.

Works well, used at the shooting range and it muffled the shots good and I could hear people when they talk. Works great for me. I recommend these and will buy another pair.

Perfect fit. Comfortable. Excellent sound management: controls/muffles shots fired but provides clarity with spoken range instructions or conversations. Easy to use volume control (spoken words are amplified even as shots are muted: I'm hard of hearing so sound management of this sort is very important). Very good purchase.