George Vondriska

Hearing Protection from ISOTunes

George Vondriska
Duration:   4  mins

Description

You’ve gotta protect your hearing. Most tools run around 105+ decibels. That needs to get toned down to 85 db or less to be safe. ISOTunes offers lots of products that’ll help you with this.

What is ISOTunes Aware Technology?

If you’re in a shop environment with other people you need to wear hearing protection and you need to be able to hear the people who are around you. The downside to good hearing protection is that it tunes everything out, tools and people alike.

With Aware technology voices are allowed through the hearing protection, but sounds that can damage your hearing are not. If you want this in an ear muff style, get the ISOTunes Link Aware. Don’t want earmuffs or a wire hanging around your next, get Free Aware. Wired earbuds so you can hang them around your neck when they’re not in your ears? ISOTunes Pro Aware.

Features

All of the ISOTunes products provide a decibel reduction that will protect your hearing in a shop environment. The devices Bluetooth connect to your phone, allowing you to listen to music and take phone calls. Noise canceling pushes down background noise so that when you are on the phone people on the other end aren’t bothered by stuff that’s running in the background.

AM/FM

Watch for earmuffs that will be coming from ISOTunes that’ll offer all of these cool features, plus they’ll receive AM and FM. You can mow the lawn and listen to the baseball game on WGN.

We only looked at a few ISOTunes products here. Have a look at their family of hearing protection.

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One of the most common questions I get when I'm teaching or shootin' video is, "What are those things hanging around your neck?" I've been using ISOtunes products since forever. And Taylor's gonna tell us more about cool new stuff that's going on with ISOtunes. Yes, okay, so down here we have the Aware Technology line of ISOtunes. Just launched back in the spring of 2022. So, very fresh.

What we've done is, we've taken our best sellers, the PRO, the LINK, and the FREE, and we've layered on a special technology called Aware Technology. And so what that does is, at a minimum, you're still getting your basic ear protection, OSHA compliant, you're getting the Bluetooth technology, so you can listen to music, you can take calls. And then these lines, these products specifically, allow you to enhance and amplify your awareness in your environment, for strategic reasons; to communicate the teams, and to be extra aware of your surroundings. So, it's great for, large teams who aren't just working by themselves in the shop. So when I wear my standard ISOtunes, I'm getting all of the decibels of hearing protection.

Correct. But if you talk and say, "There's a phone call for you," or whatever, I can't hear you, because I've got hearing protection in. With these, it recognizes somebody's talking and it disables, is that the right word to use? That it lets your voice come through. Yes.

Although I still have hearing protection, so that I can hear what you're saying. Yeah, I think the best way to describe it on top of that too, is it's more... You're still gonna be able to listen, to have phone calls, listen to music, but when impact noises, like come outta the blue, it's gonna automatically pick up that sound. Dampens it and kills that. In two milliseconds, like, instantaneously, and allows you to still have a conversation from across the room with all your machines running.

So that's more what it's about, just communication in team environments. And what's cool with it too is you can fine tune the amount of that awareness that you want. It's not just one level. Correct. You can set it for- Yeah.

And it might have to do with the timbre of the person you're talking to and how easy or difficult it is to hear that particular voice. Exactly But you can finesse it for your environment. Yeah, and a great way to see that actually on the ear muffs here, the Link Aware, there's actually just like a volume up and down. There's Aware Technology up and down. So you can crank it up to full awareness or bring it down to your needs.

Yeah, exactly. So like when your kids are in the room and you're afraid they're gonna talk to you, you make it unaware, right? Exactly, yeah. Alright, and then what's the guy in the end? What do we got here?

So, the next stuff, this more teasing out what's coming up for ISOtunes later this fall and also in the spring. So, I'll draw your attention to the one coming up first, and it's the Free 2.0, this is, there it is, right there. It's actually our original true wireless model. We took this model and we've enhanced the noise reduction ratings to create a better volume experience, listening experience, for everybody while still having the same kind of true wireless feel. So, we're basically upgrading the volume level, the Bluetooth technology, a couple other enhancements.

That's coming out October of 2022. And then this one is just to remind me to talk about old fashioned technology AM/FM radio. So if you guys- Radio? I dunno if you're still- Is that a thing? It's still a thing.

I, firstly, still love it, but if you're out there mowing the lawn, with In Love radio, we're taking our basic earmuffs and layering on AM/FM technology. In addition to the Bluetooth, all the other stuff we've got. Correct. Now I can listen to the radio. Correct, that's coming out March of 2023.

So if you're into that old school technology, it's perfect. That's great. Hearing protection is hugely important. You cannot get an eardrum transplant. So wearing hearing protection is a great thing to do.

And this kind of hearing protection, were if for me, I can listen to music and I can take calls and I can have the hearing protection. It's the way to go.

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