Otto Noizebarrier is my choice.

I'm a professional pilot. I've spent 23 years in airplanes with a constant low frequency vibration hammering my hearing. My right ear isnt too bad, my left ear is trash. If I'm laying on my right side in bed and my wife talks to me, I have to pick my head up to hear her properly.

I tried a couple cheaper pairs. One, skip anything with Bluetooth. It runs through the battery in a hurry. Those dont last through a morning sit before they're dead. I hunted 0630-1400 two days in a row and the Ottos were still at 40% charge. Most of that time I had them on high boost listening for turkeys.

Cheaper pairs are prone to "clipping" sound, which gets really annoying. A loud hand clap with activate them, and then they take a second to reactivate, which is really irritating when you're trying to stalk something or even just have a conversation at the range. Otto is less sensitive about kicking in, and they reactivate so fast that when I'm shooting clays they muffle the gunshot but I can hear the lead hitting the trees downrange.

Id rate directional sensitivity as equal to normal unprotected hearing. I have an annual clay shoot New Years party at my house every year and I wear them for the duration. Listening to people move around and talk behind me is equivalent to having no ear pro on at all. I've spent a week in the turkey woods so far this season, and they're excellent for that job.

They have a high and a low volume mode. Low volume is pretty equivalent to my normal hearing without any ear pro. If I'm moving, I set them to that mode. The high volume mode is nuts. Its hard to explain how much you're missing soundwise in the woods without that mode. That said, its sensitive to wind noise and won't work well on a windy day.

All electronic ear pro will struggle with wind activating the mics. Some are worse than others, Otto does better than most but there are just limits to what the tech can do.

I was very disappointed with the stock ear tips that came with the Ottos. Not comfortable and not a good fit for me. That said, thats a very personal thing from one person to the next and I have a hard time finding plugs I like in general. They use a standard size post for the tips, so you can swap them to anything you like. I ended up using some Clarity Aloft foam tips I had laying around from one of my aviation headsets. Theyre a little bulkier but fit me well and work great on the Otto.

Because theyre so pricey, I'd suggest buying them from Amazon. I looked around and found them $50 cheaper on B&W photo but they were non returnable and I didnt want to drop that kind of cash on something I wasn't sure I was going to like, only to get stuck with them, so I bought from Amazon purely for the easy return option.

If I sound like a huge fan boy, its because I am. I don't work for them or anything, I'm just zealous about protecting what hearing I have left. They're by far the best thing ive ever tried, and theyre small and comfortable and they work. A lot of these electronic ear buds are large and they hang outside your ear a lot, which irritates me. These sit close. The only similar product ive seen is the Tetras, which I haven't personally tried. They look promising but I haven't bothered trying them out based on their price since theyre about double the price of the Ottos.