Well only Semi-Worthless.
I've been thinking about buying a pair of expensive shooting muffs that have audio inputs so I can listen to my iPod while using the tractor AND still have the sound deadening of the electronic muffs to kill the engine sounds. So I put on a set of my current electronic muffs to test things . . . mine don't have an AUX in port so I can't use them for listening to an iPod, but I figured it would be a test to see how well the electronic sound deadening works on a tractor.
Simply put, it does NOT work. In fact just the opposite. It enhances the engine noise
Apparently the shooting muffs work by having a noise level that triggers the microphone and that then shuts off the sound while the noise is too high. The problem is that the noise threshold to trigger the sound deadening is ABOVE the noise level emitted by the tractor. So since the tractor engine noise is below the threshold, it actually amplifies the engine noise. Simply turning off the electronic sensor quiets the noise, but that also would eliminate the ability to listen to an iPod.
Guess I need to re-think this.
I've been thinking about buying a pair of expensive shooting muffs that have audio inputs so I can listen to my iPod while using the tractor AND still have the sound deadening of the electronic muffs to kill the engine sounds. So I put on a set of my current electronic muffs to test things . . . mine don't have an AUX in port so I can't use them for listening to an iPod, but I figured it would be a test to see how well the electronic sound deadening works on a tractor.
Simply put, it does NOT work. In fact just the opposite. It enhances the engine noise
Apparently the shooting muffs work by having a noise level that triggers the microphone and that then shuts off the sound while the noise is too high. The problem is that the noise threshold to trigger the sound deadening is ABOVE the noise level emitted by the tractor. So since the tractor engine noise is below the threshold, it actually amplifies the engine noise. Simply turning off the electronic sensor quiets the noise, but that also would eliminate the ability to listen to an iPod.
Guess I need to re-think this.