Why Hyskore’s Over & Out Electronic Hearing Protection is My Favorite

Why Hyskore’s Over & Out Electronic Hearing Protection is My Favorite

Mortimer coming at you with the Hyskore www.hyskore.com Over and Out Dual Controlled Stereo Electronic Hearing Protection https://hyskore.com/products/30285-stereo-dual-circuit-dual-control-stereo-hearing-protector/ . I got these at Cabela’s on sale for $19.95, which I thought was pretty reasonable for earmuffs. I mean heck, you’re going to spend 20 bucks on decent hearing protection muffs as it is, and I’ve never owned electronic ear muffs before, and I thought What the heck, we’ll give it a try.

 

They come in this blister pack which, yeah, have your scissors ready. You’re going to be hacking on that thing, and it gives you a little bit of the information on the back. These earmuffs are made in China, and they even come with an Owner’s Manual, which gives a little bit of the information that you need to know to get you started, and their replacement parts, which I’ll touch base on their why they have those on there. It does require 4 AAA batteries, two for each muff. They have independent earmuffs and independent speakers.  If you look on the back, we have a volume control, on off switch for both earmuffs, and when you turn it on you get a red LED that tells you that baby is working. On the front of each ear pod on these bad boys are the microphones, which captures the sound.

 

Now they give you the rating on this, which is 20-23 decibel reduction, anything over 85 decibels is muted. That’s right, anything over 85 is muted. There is a delay when you turn these things on, about two or three seconds before it starts working. Now I don’t know how the magic works inside of it but we’re gonna go ahead and crack that baby open. Let’s take a look at it. You got to use a quarter. That’s right, gotta pry it apart with a quarter. There’s a whole lot of foam baffling in there. It runs on two AAA batteries for each side, there’s all the magic that goes on, and there’s your speaker.

 

The build quality of it, frankly is excellent. When you pry this thing apart, and I’ve only done it a few times, put batteries in and of course here to show you, you can see it’s starting to kind of chip away, which I think over time that baby is probably going to have to be addressed. That being said, they are still a great value. The quality of the adjustment of the headband is smooth and positive The foam upper has a little bit of padding there, not uncomfortable, but again it feels well made, like maybe over time this is gonna be an issue. But nicely enough they give you a way to order replacement parts, which I think that might be something we have to do down the road if we keep this for very long.

 

The audio sound quality is about like a walkie talkie. What I did was, I stuck a lapel mike inside the muff, and did a quick test at off, half volume, and full volume, and at the end of it I snap my fingers to try to get to the 85 and you can hear the muting, but then you can also hear an audible click when the system comes back online when the speaker starts carrying sound again. Really neat!

 

Now you can definitely hear that the sound quality is not crystal clear, but it does get the business done. I mean, what do you expect for $20.00, a Magnavox stereo? I liked having this when we took this to the range. For the first time, course I had them on, we were shooting .22’s and 9 mm and we were outside, and you know, it takes a little bit to get used to having that sound coming in and out as it does. But after I was pretty comfortable that these do the job as far as muting the sound, I handed over to my boy and let him take him for a test drive. And what’s great about that was I was able to communicate with him clearly while we were at the range. So if you’re with a new shooter, or a young shooter, you can communicate instantaneously. They do fit him well and they fit me well because they are fully adjustable.

 

But to compare the build quality, the ones that I really like are these Champions Slims. These are my favorite. I’ve had these forever and they just keep holding up. One of the differences that you’ll see is they have a metal bar over the muff, which I think is a better build quality, and the padding on the top is a little bit better for the Champions. The Slims are rated about the same at 21-22 decibel reduction. When you get into the bigger Champions, you’re talking 27 decibel reduction, and these do have a metal carrier for the earmuffs. When we go shooting indoors we don’t just use the earmuffs we also use earplugs. And these are a 25 decibel reduction. Now these combined together, again you can hear somebody speaking to you and it does come in a lot better. So there is an advantage to it.  Now at $89.99, I probably wouldn’t be a buyer for the Champions. At $20.00, yeah I think they’re great. They get the business done, and if they do quit working, I’ve got a 20 dollar pair of earmuffs.