That's probably true they only claim an NRR of 22 (better than the 19 of my Peltors). They are a slim-line design though so they can't be as efficient as a full-sized earcup can.

I don't shoot anything indoors except .22RF  so for me its not a concern. The 6" Dan in .357 is usually fired in one of those open fronted, but closed sided "shoot houses", but they do pretty well I imagine as my old Peltors were fine.

If you're shooting big boomers indoors then you want NRRs up in the 28 range!

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Well here's a range report.

Follow up (range report).

I took both the Peltor 6S tacticals & the leight sport ears to the range foe a comparative test of the 2. I’d originally intended a more comprehensive test with several firearms & locations but time, weather & events at the range made that impossible.

All this is subjective.

The range used was a 200yd open air with 4 lanes in a steep sided valley with trees everywhere. Temps were in the 80’s & humidity was 100%.

I used a .30 caliber rifle without ay kind of muzzle device firing 150 Gr bullets at 2450 FPS from a bench.

 

Fit:

The Peltors win. They pivot more easily & over a wider range of tilt than the Leights do. The best way to get a good seal with the Leights is as the instruction video shows. Extend fully, put cups over ears, and press gently to seat then pull the headband down. If you do it this way they’re fine, but if you put them on short & pull the cups down to fit they may not tilt enough to seal fully.

 

Comfort:

Nothing in it, the Leights have a slight edge with the padding on the head strap but its minor.

 

Sound deadening (electronics OFF).

The slight edge here goes to the Leights with the 22dB as opposed to the Peltor’s 19dB. Neither was in the least bit loud or uncomfortable though.

 

Amplification & electronics:

The Leights win, not by much & the 2 definitely sound “different”, not good or bad, but different. The Peltors sound, for lack of a better term like “Hollywood gunshots”, that kind of muffled “boom” sound you hear in movies. The Leights are more realistic, actually sounding like a quiet gunshot instead of a Hollywood F/X job. Other sounds, car doors, speech & so on are similar to each other.

Interestingly the biggest difference was the sound of the bullet impact on the berm at 200yds. Both units caught the impact, but the peltors were markedly different as a “slap- blat” rather than a “thump” noise.

The Leights have more amplification if you want it. They claim 4X normal, but I’d subjectively put it at 3X. The Peltors were about 1 ½~ 2X at best.

 

Controls & function:

This is a bit of a user preference thing & I could have found fault with both.

The Peltors individual click-stopped knobs were finer to tune. You could also “count clicks” to get back to a previous setting. The 2 knobs were a bit of a pain, but it retains the advantage that if one ear’s electronics goes down the other will function.

The Leights were faster, but less precise, I missed the click stops.

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