{"id":6010,"date":"2012-01-10T06:30:13","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T01:51:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-01-10T09:01:58","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T03:01:58","slug":"howard-leight-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/howard-leight-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard Leight Sync Earmuffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years I have worn the previously reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/peltor-digital\/\">Peltor AM\/FM Ear Muffs<\/a> while out mowing the lawn, or when working around loud noises. I was routinely disappointed by their lousy reception, but put up with it as I couldn&#8217;t find anything better for the price that still provided hearing protection. Recently, my stepson (Disclosure: This editor is his stepson.&#8211;OH) gave me a pair of the Howard Leight Sync Stereo Earmuffs to try out, and I haven&#8217;t used my Peltor muffs since.<\/p>\n<p>The Sync Earmuffs do not have AM\/FM reception, but instead rely on a 3.5 mm auxiliary input cable like you would find in a car. They come with an appropriately sized mini-to-mini cable that I plug into my iPhone (which is where you also control the volume). Now instead of listening to poor AM\/FM reception, I can listen to the BBC America app, my music library, podcasts, and, if I really wanted to, one of the many available FM\/AM emulators from the App Store. <\/p>\n<p>As far as hearing protection, the Sync Earmuffs have a Noise Reduction Rating (NRR) of 25, which is similar to the rating for the pair from Peltor. I have found that they provide the same amount of protection. They are also lighter, don&#8217;t require batteries, and are roughly a third the cost of the Peltor pair.<\/p>\n<p>The best part is that I no longer miss phone calls when I&#8217;m out on the tractor (which had been a serious problem), and am no longer startled when my wife shows up behind me screaming her head off trying to get my attention. I don&#8217;t even have to take the headphones off to take the call, I simply speak into the microphone on the phone and the sound gets ported through my headphones. <\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Line-in hearing protection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}