Suppressor sound tests / 9mm / 9mm pistol (Canik METE SFX)

9mm pistol (Canik METE SFX)2024

31 suppressors were fired on this same pistol, with the same ammunition. Thunder Beast describes the setup as: 9mm from a Canik METESFX pistol shooting Ammo Inc Stelth 165gr. Fired with no suppressor at all, it measured 153 dB, which is what each reduction below is counted from.

The bar above the list places each of the 31 suppressors fired on this pistol by how loud the shot still measured at the shooter's ear. Between the quietest and the loudest there is 11 dB. It stays on screen as you read, so hovering a row shows where that suppressor falls.

The shaded band is the tightest 2.69 dB stretch of this strip, holding 14 of the 31 suppressors tested, which this test cannot tell apart from one another. It is a sample rather than a special group, so sweep the strip and the band follows. No 2.69 dB stretch of this strip holds more of them than that, so the field really is spread out: on this pistol, which suppressor you fit changes how loud the shot is.

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quieter 126 dB137 dB louder

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Sorted quietest first · click a heading to sort, again to reverse

MountShop
B&T9mm RBS
126.5 dB26.5 dB quieter14.9 oz*7.72"*1.73"*———
YHMR45
127.7 dB25.4 dB quieter12 oz6.4"1.56"HUB mount$740—
PTRVSM2
128.0 dB25.0 dB quieter10.5 oz*7.97"*1.5"*———
B&TSD-Impuls-OLS-M Long
128.5 dB24.5 dB quieter8.8 oz*7.57"*1.4"*———
128.6 dB24.5 dB quieter8.8 oz8.2"1.38"Brand-specific mount$675—
128.9 dB24.1 dB quieter13.5 oz*8.68"*1.37"Brand-specific mount$930—
129.0 dB24.0 dB quieter10.5 oz*8.85"*1.44"HUB mount$1,290—
ECCO MachineTLX 6.5in
129.4 dB23.6 dB quieter4.8 oz*6.55"*1.3"*———
129.7 dB23.3 dB quieter12.6 oz*8.03"*1.37"Brand-specific mount$842—
ECCO MachineTLX
129.8 dB23.3 dB quieter3.7 oz*5.57"*1.3"*———
Innovative ArmsLex
129.8 dB23.2 dB quieter9.8 oz7.5"1.38"Brand-specific mount——
BOSS SilencersCamacho
130.1 dB22.9 dB quieter16.5 oz9.5"1.75"HUB mount$1,200—
FPM GunworksTatonka
130.2 dB22.8 dB quieter27.5 oz*10.14"*1.7"*———
B&TSD-Impuls-OLS-M Short
130.3 dB22.7 dB quieter7.4 oz*6.05"*1.4"*———
130.6 dB22.4 dB quieter9.9 oz*7.68"*1.41"Brand-specific mount$1,099—
130.7 dB22.3 dB quieter10.4 oz7.88"1.25"Threads on directly$850—
Otter Creek LabsLithium
131.1 dB21.9 dB quieter5.7 oz6"1.5"HUB mount——
131.6 dB21.4 dB quieter10.3 oz7.4"1.38"Brand-specific mount$1,169—
131.7 dB21.3 dB quieter5.7 oz*4.4"*1.39"Brand-specific mount$1,180—
B&TImpuls-IIA
131.8 dB21.3 dB quieter12 oz*7.84"*1.38"*———
W.T.F. SilencersThe TatankaNot identified
131.9 dB21.1 dB quieter17.6 oz*8.04"*1.55"*———
Elite IronThud Lite .36
132.4 dB20.6 dB quieter14.8 oz*7.22"*1.78"*———
132.8 dB20.2 dB quieter12.5 oz*9.05"*1.4"Threads on directly$850—
133.0 dB20.0 dB quieter8.2 oz*5.93"*1.41"Brand-specific mount$1,099—
133.3 dB19.7 dB quieter8.2 oz*7"*1.39"Brand-specific mount$1,180—
YHMR9
133.4 dB19.6 dB quieter9.3 oz5.2"1.56"HUB mount$600—
FPM GunworksNein
134.3 dB18.7 dB quieter13.4 oz*7.7"*1.6"*———
Energetic ArmamentSonus Ti
135.1 dB17.9 dB quieter9 oz*5.4"*1.55"*———
135.7 dB17.3 dB quieter8.6 oz*5.05"*1.37"Brand-specific mount$842—
ECCO MachineCannine
137.0 dB16.0 dB quieter3.1 oz*4.24"*1.3"*———
Energetic ArmamentSonus with Wipe
137.4 dB15.6 dB quieter13.5 oz*7"*1.56"*———

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Point at a suppressor, or pick one on the chart, and ≈ marks every other one within 2.69 dB of it. This test can't tell those apart, so the order between them means nothing.

* Weighed or measured by Thunder Beast as the suppressor arrived, with whatever mount was fitted. We show these when we don’t have the maker’s figure, or when the suppressor’s length can be changed and only Thunder Beast’s numbers match the setup it fired. The same model can arrive with different hardware in different years, so treat these as rough.

Products come and go from these events voluntarily. A suppressor missing from this list was not tested, nothing more. Names are shown as Thunder Beast listed them. A name without a link doesn’t have a page on Baffled yet. Differences smaller than 2.69 dB are closer than this test can reliably measure. The results also don’t record which mount or muzzle device each suppressor was fitted with, and that hardware can affect the reading and the weights and lengths Thunder Beast measured. Decibels are not a count of anything: as a rule of thumb every 10 dB is roughly a halving of how loud something seems, so the gaps here are larger than they look.

The arrow beside each name opens every microphone reading, and it is worth opening. A suppressor can be the quietest here beside the muzzle and middling at the shooter’s ear, so a claim about one says nothing about the other.

Thunder Beast published the decibel figures. Weights, lengths and diameters are the maker’s published figures where Baffled lists the suppressor, and Thunder Beast’s own measurements, marked with an asterisk, where it does not. Mount type and MSRP come from Baffled’s catalog, and shop prices from the retailers. The resolution limit of 2.69 dB, the shaded band, and the 153 dB unsuppressed figure are worked out here from those measurements.

Data from the 2024 SILENCER SUMMIT, published by Thunder Beast Arms Corp. See their results

Does a result link to the wrong suppressor, or have no link when Baffled has a page for it?