Luke Cuenco 05.05.22
Hearing protection is an all-important piece of gear whether you’re training on the flat range for self-defense, or you’re sitting up in a tree stand waiting to take the shot on a buck you’ve been tracking for years. So, when it comes to hearing protection, having a lot of options is always a good thing. Speaking of options, ATN Corp has just announced its first venture into the hearing protection market with its new X-Sound Bluetooth-capable hearing protection.
New X-Sound Bluetooth-Enabled Hearing Protection from ATN Corp
So, what’s up with X-Sound? The ability to control both the external sound and internal sound levels is something that very few electronic hearing protection setups do well, if at all. ATN X-Sound earmuffs are priced a little higher than competing options, but without knowing what kind of drivers, mics, and other components X-Sound is using, it is hard to tell at the time of writing if these will be worth the price of admission.
The earmuffs have a lot of features like the ability to pair with a Bluetooth-enabled smartphone to make calls or just listen to music or other audio. The ATN X-Sound also features a compact folding design that most of you are probably familiar with from other popular hearing protection options, as well as two high-gain omnidirectional microphones, an audio input jack, and battery life of up to 300 hours using two AAA batteries. The new earmuffs will cost $119 from the ATN website and also only come in one color which is an OD green featuring a wolf on each of the headphone pieces.
Moving into the hearing protection market is an obvious choice for ATN,” James Munn, CEO of ATN Corp., explained. “Our X-Sound Hearing Protection ear muffs not only offer noise reduction, but provide the user with individual controls for adjusting the volume of the surrounding noise levels, and separately control your media volume. With the ATN X-Sound, you can listen to music and even take that office call while you are sitting in a tree stand.
