Message from @AnEvalach
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which is why dudes either double up or shoot canned
Or the machinery doesn’t trip the compression, and you get amplified machinery noise piped through your headset all day
In either case, you don’t get to hear dudes speaking
So you're going to reach up and turn it on when you have to talk to someone, and at that point you might as well take off the muffs and put it back on when you're done
How does he not understand
If you’ve ever been on a helicopter, you’d know what I’m talking about
You can’t fucking talk to each other unless you’re using the intercom headsets
or a small prop plane
Peltors are worthless
oh look
3m makes just the product
All my dudes can be wearing peltors and I’d still be shouting to have them hear me, and they still can’t hear dick
But the crew is plugged into an intercom
So that’s where you’re going to find yourself with this comtac situation
Unless everyone in your factory springs for VIs and you all talk using NIB
Unironically, regular noise cancelling headphones over foamies are infinitely more comfortable in a constant noise workplace
Ok THAT is actually starting to make sense. So basically the only advantage to basic ear pro would be not having to take them off to talk to someone? And there's a possibility they'll amplify 85Db machines and be worse?
there is that chance. 85 db is right at the cut off
which is why people just use "dead" ear pro
OR
they use electronics headset, and ear plugs underneath
I hope you like listening to that machinery just get piped through your headset all day if you use active earpro
constant protection but you can actually hear people
Computer fan? Make that 10x louder
Machinery clank? Retard loud
or you could just turn the volume down
yeah really
Or just take off regular earpro
it's not like it's automatically set to 85 db
And put it back on
So what is the sound adjustment for then? Seems stupid to not be able to change the threshold.
For gunshots retard
oh you can turn the amplification down?
Comtacs also have the unique ability to amplify stupid shit that shouldn’t be amplified at an exponentially higher rate than other shit like voices
at my old job there was a constant chance something loud could happen at any time
You can set it pretty low but then they're just dumb headphones
so it was pretty much all the time ear pro for me
and then you can't talk to anyone