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

I have been using the GS Extreme 2 for about a month. Since they are not custom fit, getting proper fitting in your ear is the hardest part. My ears just don’t accept the largest plug options so I’ve been working with the middle group and have settled on the small size. Not a perfect fit and I do have to continue to push in if they get a bit loose. But they do stay in and they do work. And they work so much better than ear muffs. During steel challenge yesterday I used the muffs for a couple of stages and as usual found it a bit difficult hearing my shots on the steel. I had the time to fit the Axil for the rest of the match and could hear so much better. The biggest difference is sound direction which is dismal with my ear muffs. Battery life is exceptional. Don’t have a need really for the Bluetooth option so I’ve not tried that. Have been using the clip to attach to my hat. Does keep the cables from moving. Much cooler to wear than muffs and once it gets really hot will use my full brim cap which is impossible with muffs. Not perfect and certainly not in the category of custom fit but overall I’m very happy with them. Especially for the price.

Decent hearing protection, would recommend primarily for outdoor usage, little too loud indoors.

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.

They are really good. Just have a fitting problem. Takes a lot of work to seat them. Once seated, they are perfect. They will not connect to your iPhone if you have a secondary Bluetooth device like my Apple Watch.

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.

These work very well as ear plugs to cancel out noise. I've used them for yardwork, and more importantly at the gun range. It's very important to pick the right size plug (multiple are included) and then to insert them fully and correctly in the ear. The sound quality for Bluetooth isn't going to be anywhere near what premium headphones provide, but that's not what they are, they're ear protection that as a plus you can listen to music through. The ability to flip a switch and hear your surroundings and talk to people was particularly nice at the range. I'd also imagine it'd be great if you work in a shop, construction, or other loud environment where you need hearing protection, but also need to communicate. These would have been awesome when I worked in such a place early in my career. I always hated taking out and putting back in my ear plugs repeatedly, with this product I wouldn't have had to do that.

I really wish these were better. Music audio is better than i need and i love the ambient noise amplification feature. at max volume i can sit at my desk at work and listen in on the project manager badmouthing my project 2 rows over. loud noise cutoff mixed with sound amplification works well for holding conversations while shooting and using power tools. finally the battery life is good unless you forget to turn off the sound amp at the end of the day. the down side is that after using this as an every day wear for only 3 months the wires or something is coming loose and i get either feedback or warble in calls making me impossible to understand. it was good for 4-6 weeks but then the noise amp feature started being picked up by calls and then later if i did not hold my head still it would add noises into my calls. finally last night it was impossible to hold a call due to the distortion. still going to hold onto them for shooting and power tools but it will no longer be a daily wear for me since it cannot handle phone calls anymore. i will keep an eye on future products to see if they get better because this is a very cool product.

great deal for quality ear protection.one charge lasts for hours and optional interchangeable ear buds tips for a custom fit.you can adjust surrounding noises and maintain hearing while enjoying the noise canceling benefits when you shoot.charges very quickly,around a couple of hours when fully dishcharged.very easy instructions to understand and easy controls to adjust.charges with 110 v or usb.very comfortable when wearing.a must to save your hearing !!!

Perfect. Just what I needed

A mi no me sirvieron para tirar, como audífonos están bien. Pero el precio es muy alto para que solo sirvan como audífonos regulares NO LOS RECOMIENDO PARA TIRO CON ARMA DE FUEGO

Quality product, great noise cancellation and great for shooting