these look neat

[John Paul Sanborn]

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Silencio Falcon Electronic Hearing Protection

* Active Listening noise compression
* Economical, ultra-low profile
* Folds up for easy compact storage
* 360 degree micro-ear
* Amplifies low level sounds while limiting speaker output to a safe 82 dB
* Uses a single AAA battery in each side
* External battery compartment for easy battery replacement
* Dual microphones, volume controls and speakers for natural directional hearing
& compensation for hearing differences between ears
* Lightweight - only 10.5 ounces
* 250 hours of active listening
* NRR - 22 Over The Head
* Available In Red Or Tactical Black

*** As Low As $49.95ea ***

 

[R Schra]

Those look like a good set of earcaps with a reasonable price. I used simular design from Peltor but couldnt think of much advantage by using active dampening and (speak)sound filtering and amplifying. I would like to see a reasonable priced set of caps with active speak and hearing wireless for groundie/climber/craneoperator use. Its sometimes a hell of a job to keep a motorola walkytalky up in a tree and not damaging it.

Peltor speak/hear caps

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

I have a peltor system that replaces the regular earmuffs.

It has the dampening/amplifying in stereo, and 2 way radio on the FRS bands. I think it has 10 channels so you can talk to ny of those little camping walkie-talkies as long as they are not on a split channel (ie 4.4, 3.2.. only 1,2,3,4..). it has a boom mike and Vox, though the saw usually sets that off .

I like the audio pickups because I can hear people on the ground when I'm 60-70 feet up w/o them having to yell.

It's designed for airplanes, so it's not the best it could be for what we do, eg dampen everything that is not in the human voice range, or clip i think the proper term is.

It costs around $360US so the market is small right now, I'd like a way to play it.