AXILGS Extreme 2.0 Shooting Ear Buds – Hearing Enhancement & Noise Isolation Bluetooth Earbuds – w/Dynamic Speakers – 25-Hour

Comfortable and work as advertised. Setting up the plugs gets some getting used to placing in ears but once set up easy to use and audio is great

I bought these to wear in the deer stand. At 60+, with decades of rock concerts and shooting, I've got more hearing damage than I'm comfortable with and I'm not ready to stop shooting. So, I wanted to try an "active noise canceling" ear pro to see if I could find one that (1) works and (2) I will wear.I charged the unit and put it on Monday morning. I work remote on Mondays, so I spend a lot of time in online meetings and phone calls, plus listening to streaming music. I did some adjusting during the first couple of hours, to get them to "sit" right. I used the "maximum" foam plugs. I wore them all day, 9 hours, working. I had normal conversations with people (and dogs) in my home while having phone/online conversation with work associates. I'm not going to claim "I didn't even know they were there." because that would be a lie, but they were very comfortable for ear pro. In the 9 hours, I think I felt the need to adjust/reinsert them maybe 4 times. I had good stereophonic hearing, and better than fair sound quality from the ambient noises. Unlike some other "active" earbuds that I've tried, these didn't shut down completely at loud noises. One of the dogs barked right behind me and I barely heard her, as if I'd had foam ear plugs in, but the rest of the kitchen noises didn't shut down and come back. I don't know if that's intended, because I'd think these would be much more expensive for the kind of filtering, but it was my experience. Once I get to the range to try them there, I'll update my review. At this time, I'm strongly considering a pair for my son-in-law for his birthday so he can hunt with me and without hearing damage.

Just as others have, I fell victim to the constant AXIL ads that seemed to follow me across the internet (don’t do this advertisers. Don’t do this. It’s creepy and ends up with the customer buying a product they didn’t really want for a price they didn’t really want to spend). I finally bit and they shipped quickly (Amazon, your delivery practices will be the end of society as we know it, you abuse your ‘labor’ and outsource every other job function. Stop this. It is terrible for everyone involved in the chain). I was eager to try them and I was pretty impressed at first. I knew wind would be a problem but I moved past it thinking they just needed time to adjust. I applied to wind filters. Kept trying to get somewhat quality audio. The buzzing. The white noise. It was driving me crazy. The electronics on this simply put: are terrible, poor, below average, just bad. Whether it’s loud noises, sudden pops or creaks or whatever, it didn’t matter. Bad bad bad all around.Finally I had enough and requested a refund from AXIL and will be fulfilling that asap.Bottom Line: don’t waste your money on an inferior product at too steep of a price. I ended up grabbing a pair of Walker’s ear buds that simply provide noise protection and enhancement without providing any Bluetooth connectivity. Do this. You won’t be let down in one bit. The audio in these is literally perfect. Very very minimal wind disturbance. Awesome product from a reputable company at a very affordable price. Pair those with aftershocks boner conduction headphones and you’re set. Amazing Bluetooth audio along with perfect noise protection and audio enhancement.

Love it! Great for music, range, and casual wearing! Very comfy and fit perfectly. Clear audio!

Really annoying. I'm glad it came with eight tip sets (16 tips total), because exactly one of the sets worked for me. I only got these for shooting, and I'm not going to Bluetooth these things like a teenager so I can listen to music or podcasts and deafen myself to range commands or the sounds of malfunctions. This rating applies specifically to mitigating gunshot reports to a safe level while allowing normal sound to come through. My go-to was a set of Walker Razors, which are amazing until you put them on over glasses (or use a rifle, which whacks the buttstock). In my search to find a workaround, I figured the earbud route would be easy: I have five pairs or earbuds that block (or amplify) ambient noise with a long battery life while sounding better than any stereo system or expensive set of full headphones I've ever had, so since those can be had so readily and affordably, these should be a no-brainer.Well apparently not. The only thing that "normal" earbuds don't do is limit volume from outside sources, and that's the mission of these Axils. These do that, but also add a lot of low-frenquency pops to certain noises that make those noises jarring where they weren't previously. Things like opening a Ziploc bag become wince-inducing. They also introduce a white-noisey hiss or filter over everything. It reminds me of the constant engine noises from the Enterprise on the Next Generation series, except while that was kind of cool, this is just the aural equivalent to having dirty glasses. The "max protect foam" tips are the only ones that stay in my ear. I've been wearing all manner of foam plugs since the early 90's, and these are the first ones to lever themselves out of my ears as they expand. That's dozens of different plugs worn thousands of times (commuting on motorcycles for decades) and then these came along and went in, fattened up, and popped out. So I had to pick a size larger than is comfortable and shove those suckers way down in there, then hold them in for almost a full minute to keep them there. Now they feel like someone stuck their thumb in my ear.I guess the upshot is that I've read review after review on quite a few of these things (from Caldwell to Ingersoll to you name it) and the only ones that got reliably good reviews cost a fortune. I think those were 3M Industrial jobs, but seriously they were over $300, maybe more. I kind of deleted that memory once I vetoed it , so forgive me. Anyway, these do what I want, but with discomfort and annoyance. The controls are best dealt with by memorizing, and that's easy enough. If you need to don these in a hurry, forget it. On the plus side, with regard to their response (and only the applied sound-limiting feature), they don't seem to differentiate between frequencies or the sharpness of the attack of noise- if whatever loud noise you encounter hits that threshold, it will get neutered with a little bit of leakage (addressed below). I used compressed air out of a blower tube (the skinny, loud kind you'd use to stick in a spark plug hole to blow it out before you remove the plug) and as I squeezed harder and increased the noise level, it smoothly truncated the decibels.Now, back to those pops we talked about: I wore them at work just to test battery life, and snapping a ¼" socket onto a ratchet delivered a solid (but brief) POP. This was when the earbuds were set on the higher end of their volume range (to amplify ambient noise, like if you were hunting or listening for the source of a bump in the night). I think it's a latency thing. Sharp, sudden noise gets delivered straight to your eardrum, but just the first fraction of a second of that noise. But it's enough to jar you. You want fast enough response from the mic to the earpiece to stave off delay, but the mitigation circuit needs to be faster, because dammit it lets the leading edge of noise through. And we're not necessarily talking about loud noises, either- clicking a socket onto a wrench is pretty tame, but these amplify normal noise and make it into harmful (or at least uncomfortable) noise. You can cure this by lowering the volume until it pops, but then you've lost the whole "amplify ambient sound" feature. Lastly, every normal noise I hear through these things no longer sounds normal. The volume is normal, but the earbuds seem to have digitized every, and deliver a steely, mechanical edge to everything you hear, like a set of cheap hearing aids. Ah well. This whole diatribe is why we're at 2 stars.