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.

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.

I was a bit leery about purchasing electronic ear pro based on the varying reviews, however, these are amazing. The variety of tips provide a perfect fit for comfort and blocking out sound while the microphone provides the right amount of amplification to hear conversations and range commands. The mic does pick up wind and ventilation noise but the controls are very accessible and allow for easy adjustment to block it out when needed. These block out indoor range shots better than any other ear pro I’ve used. I frequently shoot USPSA matches and have had no need to remove them until the match has ended.

I purchased these to replace my over ear Walkers Razors. The razors suffer from inadequate protection at the indoor range and to some degree outdoors when others are shooting larger calibers close by. The over ear protection can get hot and sweaty in the summer months. These Axil earbuds will provide good protection as long as you use the memory foam earbuds. You must pinch the foam earbuds and insert with a twisting motion for maximum protection. I had no problem with the wire, or the controls. After a few hours of use, the controls are second nature. They do a fine job blocking out the shot. But the immediate after resonating sound is still quite loud. So, turn down the volume and that makes things better. But the drawback is reduced ambient hearing. So, you still have a difficult time hearing the environment. One thing that is really annoying is that you cannot hear yourself talking at any volume level. So, you end up talking obnoxiously loudly to any others at the range. With my Walkers and Leight earmuffs, the ambient hearing is far superior. If you hear a sound to the right, it is to your right. With the Axil earbuds, you may hear the noise, but you have a more difficult time discerning the location. This was surprising as each ear bud should be independent. regarding the wire, sometimes my jacket would snag thew wire and slightly pull on one of the earbuds reducing protection. If you are someone who spends hours wearing these, you will find that, after a while, you will need to re-insert them as they work their way out. Using my rifle, these are superior as they do not bump into the rifle butt while aiming. These definitely help with sweaty ears when shooting during warmer times. The design allows for shooting unobstructed. The Bluetooth connectivity is fine. But I found that once connected to your phone, they stay connected even after you turn off the hearing protection switch. You have to remember to turn off the Bluetooth button as well. I discovered this when my phone was ringing on the ride home, but the call when to my earbuds in the range bag in the trunk. The sound quality for music is mediocre at best with the memory foam inserts. But, it does function. These aren't Boze or Beats, so the music isn't going to give you the depth of range you might otherwise be used to having though better headphones. But that isn't why you buy these. They are reasonably priced for what they provide. Especially if you get them on sale. I would prefer much better quality of ambient sounds, but I still prefer them over any active ear muffs I own. They work very well at the range. And that's why I got them.

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.

I bought some for hunting and think they’re over rated/over priced. Fine for an occasional shot while hunting but they take a fair amount of fuss to get them in your ear. I use them while shooting suppressed and they block that sound well. Audio Sound quality is meh, ear protection is questionable and controls not super intuitive. If I am shooting pistol, I am going to get my muffs.

Better than individual ear buds for hunting and sports - don't fall off if they come out of your ear. Bluetooth is nice.

Overall, very happy with this product. Works well hunting and at the range. Have also used it while running the chain saw. Very pleased with the performance.