ISOtunes Pro Model

You can consider this kind of a public service announcement from me. Sometimes in my woodworking career, I have come across products that they're just very cool, very useful, do a great job, all of the above. And I want to tell you about them and that's what's going to happen here with ISOtunes. Historically, I've been using ISOtunes pros for years, a lot of years, more years than I can remember. And the way that fits into my life is those of you who know me know a few things. I work a lot of hours, I love having music on, I exercise I'm outdoors very regularly. So the product fits in for me in a bunch of spots in that, I jokingly, but it's not really a joke, Often say the ISOtunes go in my ears at 6:30 or seven in the morning and come out at eight or nine o'clock at night. And that's pretty realistic. Outside of when I'm here, I'm on a bicycle, I'm on a treadmill, I'm running, I'm skiing. I'm whatever I'm doing, probably have ISOtunes in my ears for that activity as well. So here's the deal with them. What they provide is noise reduction in my ears. So most stuff in a shop in a woodworking shop, runs about 105 decibels. We want to knock that down to about 85 decibels, to 85 decibels in order to be safe. So, all right, so we got to have a noise reduction of about 20 in order to get there. The ISOtunes products exceed that. Now today, there are a lot of products in the stable. So what you need to do is look at the products and you can just go to ISOtunes website and identify different characteristics and different price points and decide what fits your needs and how much do you want to spend? So we put the ISOtunes in our ears, we get noise reduction in other words, hearing protection. Then additionally, with some of the units, we can talk on the phone while we have them in. Then additionally, with some of the units we get noise canceling. So noise canceling means that, if you call me and I'm in the middle of cleaning the shop, shop vacuum is a nice continuous hmm in the background, the ISOtunes product will cut that sound out so you can hear me talking but you can't hear the vacuum running in the background. So that is very beneficial to you. It's beneficial to me 'cause I can keep working and running the vacuum while I'm carrying on a conversation with you. I can hear you very clearly you can hear me very clearly without that sound going in the background all the time. There units at the lower end of the price scale where they will plug directly into a phone. There are also units where they'll Bluetooth connect to the phone. And the range that ISOtunes says on that is about 30 feet from your device. I, in my shop my shop's more than 30 feet long. And I get outside of that 30 feet pretty often, and they still connect. So call it 30 feet to be safe but in the real world of my life, I typically find they go beyond that. With the product there are a couple of things that are cool, That's cool, the way those magnets just grab. What's neat about that is when these are hanging around your neck, that's going to keep them around your neck. But the other function that's doing is if I'm listening to music and I take them out of my ears and I do this, when those magnets connect, there they go, that stops the music. And then when I do this, the music starts again. So it's little things like that, it's protecting my hearing, it's canceling the background noise, but then features like that also make it where this is just cool stuff. The pros version two, this I was amazed to learn, these babies can be under, the rating is such that they can be under a meter of water for a half hour and survive that, that's pretty robust. So if I have these in my ears and I'm out running in the rain, I'm not going to worry about it. They also increase the battery life on these version two over the old version, 16 hours of battery life on those. It's not too often, I hit a 16 hour day, but every once in a while, so even in my world those are going to get me through my day. Now a really cool thing, and I'm excited to see are these babies, these Free version, which is they're called free because they're wireless. We get hearing protection, we can talk on the phone but there's no wire hanging around your neck. So this is a wonderful addition I think to the earbud family of not worrying about like whatever constraints there are of the device hanging around your neck. So here's I guess the takeaway from this is ISOtunes makes a lot of cool stuff. I genuinely really liked the product. And the truth is I wear them, my kids wear them. Most people I know in a shop environment wear them, they're providing the hearing protection they Bluetooth connect to my phone, so I can talk on my phone, I can listen to music. I use them when I'm in the shop, I use them when I'm out of the shop. And what's neat, I think is with their array of products, There's something that'll fit price point and needs for really, for anybody out there. So it's just something I wanted to let you know about. I want you to have a look at and see if they fit your needs. And if they do find the product that fits your budget and go from there and then let me know if you like them as much as I do.