Rob Pincus

ISOtunes Sport Tactical Hearing Protection

Rob Pincus
Duration:   3  mins

Description

The shooting ear-protection products from ISOtunes Sport are winning over long-time foamies fan Rob Pincus due to their effectiveness and multi-functionality. Rob takes a look at ISOtunes’ Advance Tactical model as well as their latest, the Caliber earbuds.

ISOTUNES SPORT

Although not an official sponsor of the PDN Training Tour 2022, ISOtunes Sport has provided shooting ear protection to Tour instructors for the past couple of years. Instructors gave great feedback on the ISOtunes Advance Tactical model, which has a cord that loops around the wearer’s head.

For more on the Advance Tactical and ISOtunes’ traditional ear muffs, the Defy and Defy Slim models, check out PDN Contributor Barret Kendrick’s video on ISOtunes Sport Tactical Hearing Protection.

NEWEST MODEL—CALIBER

Rob has a pair of the brand-new ISOtunes Sport Caliber model of shooting ear protection. Caliber is a set of compact, fully in-ear earbuds that have no cord or lanyard. They charge inside the included case and are Bluetooth enabled. A pair runs 13 hours on a single charge.

The Caliber earbuds are small, low profile, and can be used for things besides shooting ear protection due to the latest Bluetooth 5.2 technology. You can listen to music, a movie during a plane flight, and more.

ON THE RANGE

But when it’s range time, either for a firearms training course or a practice session, ISOtunes’ Tactical Sound Control Technology enhances the wearer’s hearing by 8x while protecting from high-impact noises in under 2 milliseconds. Ideal for protecting hearing during gunfire while being able to hear the instructor’s directions.

Caliber earbuds come with multiple sizes and shapes of eartips. ISOtunes recommends the foam eartips for high-volume environments. The different size offerings are for different size eartips—the better the fit, the better the noise isolation.

Caliber earbuds are so new that Rob hasn’t done a lot of work with them on the range yet, but his full evaluation is coming soon.

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One of the other companies I wanna talk about today is ISOtunes Sport. ISOtunes Sport is a company that you've seen through Personal Defense Network a lot. They were not a tour sponsor this year, but they are absolutely behind us in everything we do and they have provided a lot of these samples to our instructors, just like Vertex did. So a lot of the clothing that you saw the instructors wearing this year, while they weren't a formal tour sponsor, they provided a lot of clothing. These guys provided hearing protection to a lot of our contributors for a couple of years, and this model, the Advance Tactical, is the one that is actually on a little bit of a loop, right, that loops around your neck. You've got your earbuds that go in. This has been an incredibly useful tool for me, because I generally just go with Foamies. Having a Bluetooth-enabled set of earbuds that also serves as hearing protection was something cool for me because then it gave me a dual purpose. It gave me a reason to carry 'em around, to have 'em around on the plane. But these are relatively big, relatively obvious that you're wearing them, right? And it's not the same as a little earbud that you might have just to listen to music on the plane, when you're using your ISOtunes Sport Advance Tactical, which looks tactical and is tactical. I'm really excited this year about the Caliber. This is kind of the latest, greatest, newest thing from ISOtunes Sport, and these are the compact, fully in the ear, no lanyard, no string. They charge inside of this little case and they are Bluetooth enabled, so you can use these to listen to the movie on the airplane, I can listen to music. We can tie these in to all kinds of things through the Bluetooth 5.2. And these, not only are they more compact than the Advance Tactical, but they also have the updated 5.2 Bluetooth. They will run 13 hours; I think the Advance Tactical were something like 10 hours. These will run 13 hours on a single charge, which obviously is enough to get you through the day. They do have noise-canceling ability, so any of the wind noise, the static noise, the regular kind of white noise in the background or on the airplane, it'll overcome all of that. So I've just started using these. I will have a more thorough report on them. You know, like all last year and into this year, the Advance Tactical have been great. They're an outstanding tool for hearing protection but also for everyday Bluetooth use, but a little bit big. These little more compact ones, more modern ones, and these are kinda the cutting-edge thing from ISOtunes Sport, the Caliber. Really looking forward to giving you a more thorough report on them. And of course, one of the things about... I gotta show you this. This is kind of almost ridiculous, the number of different configurations and sizes that ISOtunes Sport offer for the end cap, right? If you want the ribbed one, if you want this short, kind of stout one, you want the long skinny one, you want the little skinny one, whatever, you can customize these, which will also potentially increase the level of hearing protection that you get on the range. But they are customizable for comfort as well. So I appreciate ISOtunes Sport being a supporter of Personal Defense Network and our contributors kind of in every way, not just the tour.
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