“VOICE GUIDED MENU”

The first one is that the PELTOR has a voice guided menu while the SORDIN works with simple tones. We totally get why PELTOR did this because the ComTac is a pretty adjustable system with various features which we’ll directly come to. This while the SORDIN is not that modular.

“RELEASE TIME”

Another feature of the PELTOR is the ability to adjust the “release time”. This can either be set to fast or slow and apparently works against acoustic shocks caused indoors. SORDIN’s reaction to this feature was that they were quite curious about what it would do and told us to test it out for ourselves. But as of now we personally don’t have enough experience with shooting firearms indoors yet, so we haven’t been able to test this out.

“BALANCE”

The next feature a PELTOR has is a so called “balance”. The idea here is that if you have hearing damage on an ear, it gets amplified extra to work against the damage. This is pretty clever at first thought, but SORDIN doesn’t think this is very useful. Since if you have hearing damage your brain gets used to it and thus shifting that balance won’t add any value. It will more likely confuse you for those couple of hours of wearing the headset and that’s why the SORDIN doesn’t feature this.

“EAR-PLUG MODE”

And at last we come to the final unique feature of the PELTOR which is what they call an “ear-plug mode”. Remember when we were talking about SNR values and mentioned that the PELTOR provides 39 dB with ear plugs? Well, this is about that. PELTOR did this to provide a system that can be more widely used for units that work a lot around loud engines for example.

But, the extra protection you get from wearing ear plugs together with the headset also comes with the downside that you lose your situational awareness. The ear-plug mode is a solution to that whereas the PELTOR amplifies the speakers with an additional 6 dB. Which is a pretty smart solution to regain that situational awareness.

As said earlier during the explanation of SNR values, we also said that SORDIN hasn’t given any values for this. Well, this is simply because they don’t provide a solution to maintain that situational awareness when wearing ear plugs underneath the headset. Now, you might ask why not? And that has to do with how they approached the designing of their system. There are two points here:

One being that SORDIN doesn’t try to approach the market of for example tank units with their MIL CC headsets, since they know these require specially designed headsets.
And two, a SORDIN system is used as it comes. It doesn’t allow to be adjusted like a PELTOR with the simple reason that it is build to do that one job the best it can and this for as long as possible.

So, having said that we now come to the final comparison of these two headsets and that is a sound comparison.

SOUND COMPARISON

For this it is best to have a look at the video, the sound comparison starts at 24:35.

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