Customer Reviews:
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 It works March 28, 2008
Anthony Charles
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
It works very well for hearing protection and the sound is pretty good for the price as well. The speakers even give you a little bit of depth for the music. My only problem is that they can't receive radio stations. Even though the tuner is digital and tuned to the correct station it will only pick up the station if you hold the antenna with your hand. As soon as you remove your hand it will loose reception. The older style analog ones pick up stations much better. But like I said if you want them to plug a MP3 player into they are pretty good.
 Peltor headset May 10, 2008
John Randazzo (Temecula, CA, USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
As a pilot who uses headsets, and an avid AM radio listener, I was very excited to obtain my new Digital Worktunes 22 headset for working around the house. I ordered it from Amazon and received it promptly. Pretty exciting!
The headset is effective at cutting out noise. Unfortunately, it has the worst AM radio reception of any radio I have ever owned (and I own at least 10 AM radios including: Sangeen/CCrane (3), Sony (4), Coby, Eton's (2) and a few more. Due to my aviation background I truly expected Peltor to be at least comparable to the basic radios I own, but the AM reception quality of this headset is so inferior that I have sent a letter to Peltor (something I never do) to voice my unhappiness with this product. The buzzing/static sound is loud and annoying no matter if the station is close and powerful. Distant stations (that can be received by my other radios) are completely impossible to receive.
I will say the comfort and quietness is quite effective, but I bought these to listen to AM radio and to use my IPOD (audio IN) connection. The lack of reception ability is shockingly inferior to even my worst radio. It's truly disappointing to research a product and, after purchasing it, discovering that it's reception capabilities are inferior to any product I've ever owned in my lifetime (I'm 60 years old).
In a time of increased technology and competitive product lines I just would expect a decent product (especially from Peltor). If you market this primarily as an AUDIO IN device with good sound deadening qualities, that would be reasonable, but to suggest this as even a comparable AM radio is clearly misleading. In fairness, other that Amazon feedback, I never saw any marketing that suggested this was a capable AM product, I just assumed as a Peltor, it would be capable. Note: I haven't used the FM so I can't judge it.
I just enjoy AM radio and hoped this would be a decent addition to my fairly large AM radio collection. It sure would have been nice to be able to enjoy this product as described and to be able to recommend it to friends and family.
It may be possible that I have a lemon and if Peltor responds I will give an update. In the meantime, I would caution anyone from buying this product unless the AM radio station you enjoy has a transmitter within a few block of where you live.
Note: Update (5/15) I was unable to change my rating to a 2 star which I chose to do because of it's effective noise reduction quality and relative comfort.
 10 Stars! March 10, 2008
Gary Hoyt (Boulevard, CA United States)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
If Peltor is reading this review, you got this one nailed down. Perfect, perfect! Thanks for the product, it has gone a long way to preserve my hearing/ears. If only 10 stars were available instead of just 5.
Peltor Work Tunes March 15, 2008
Hank Merkle (Simpsonville, SC United States)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I found out about these from Marc Spagnuolo (The wood whisperer - http://thewoodwhisperer.com/
Marc uses these to block out his wife (not really she's beautiful and he listens to every word she says.)
No really, these things are great, I can work in the shop, mow, use the leaf blower and listen not only to AM or FM stations, but I can plug in an MP3 style player (I use a creative Muvo) and listen to my downloaded tunes.
Thanks Marc, Hopfully you get the support, I went through the TWW site to buy them!
Not the quality I expected June 9, 2008
Pinto
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I had high hopes for this item, but it fell quite short. The tuner is digital, but it is not accurate. For example, if you want to tune to 860AM you might have to try 850 or 870. The FM tuner had the same problem. Secondly the reception is very poor. I live very close to a major city and I receive AM at my house very well on all types of radios. This unit would barely pull in the local AM stations, and then only if you turned your head a certain direction. Not very convenient. Lastly, the sound quality on the stations I could pick up was very poor. Reminded me of two cans on a string. Overall, very disappointing, and the item was returned for a refund.
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