Suppressor sound tests / 5.56
5.56 suppressor sound tests
4 tests used this cartridge. Each test is one rifle, one day, one set of ammunition. Results from different tests can’t be compared with each other.
Smaller tests
11 more suppressors were measured with this cartridge. They come from 8 tests with too few suppressors on the gun to be worth comparing: with two or three, finishing first says very little. They are listed here instead. Open a name to see its figures.
- Allen Engineering AEM2
- Allen Engineering AEM3
- Allen Engineering AEM4
- Allen Engineering AEM5
- Allen Engineering AEM5 .30
- Allen Engineering AEM5-30
- Allen Engineering AEM5-30K
- Allen Engineering AEM5k
- B&T MK12 Gen 1
- Noveske Amigo
- Noveske Factory Cone Non-NFA
The names without links don’t have a page on Baffled yet.
5.56, 16" AR-152026
87 suppressors were fired on this same gun, with the same ammunition. It was not fired without a suppressor in 2026. At the 2024 Summit, the same gun with the same ammunition and no suppressor measured 156.3 dB, and each reduction below is counted from that 2024 figure.
The bar above the list places each of the 87 suppressors fired on this gun by how loud the shot still measured at the shooter's ear. Between the quietest and the loudest there is 7 dB. It stays on screen as you read, so hovering a row shows where that suppressor falls.
The shaded band is the tightest 1.64 dB stretch of this strip, holding 55 of the 87 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. That is most of the field, so on this gun sound is not what separates these suppressors. What decides it is whatever else matters to you, like weight, length or price.
- Griffin Armament Dual-Lok 5AM140.2 dB17.5 oz · 6.38" · includes action noise16.1 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
- Echo Zulu Defense X2R140.7 dB11.3 oz · 6.375" · includes action noise15.6 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
- Strategic Sciences MFMD 5.56 1.3140.7 dB16.6 oz · 4.6" · includes action noise15.6 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
- Blackbird F556H140.9 dB12.4 oz · 5.8" · includes action noise15.3 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
- Silent Steel Compact Streamer141.0 dB22.7 oz · 6.75" · includes action noise15.3 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
- Warsaw Creek Armory Rudis-S141.0 dB14.7 oz · 7.25" · includes action noise15.3 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
- Griffin Armament PRC 22141.2 dB17.7 oz · 7.75" · includes action noise15.1 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
- Griffin Armament Dual-Lok 7AM141.2 dB19.4 oz · 7.5" · includes action noise15.1 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
- Wraith Metal Works Sentinel SA 223141.3 dB15.2 oz · 4.8" · includes action noise15.0 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
We don’t have any information on this suppressor beyond Thunder Beast’s test. It may be an older or renamed model.
- Silent Steel Streamer141.4 dB27.4 oz · 8.4" · includes action noise14.9 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
- FCA Impakt S-Ti141.4 dB9.9 oz · 7.4" · includes action noise14.9 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
We don’t have any information on this suppressor beyond Thunder Beast’s test. It may be an older or renamed model.
- LayerX Suppression Raster 5K Ti141.5 dB8.8 oz · 5.25" · includes action noise14.8 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
- FCA Ryze L-Ti141.5 dB13.8 oz · 8.75" · includes action noise14.8 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
We don’t have any information on this suppressor beyond Thunder Beast’s test. It may be an older or renamed model.
- Griffin Armament HRT5K141.5 dB16.3 oz · 5.25" · includes action noise14.8 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
- Warsaw Creek Armory Typhon 56K141.7 dB12.8 oz · 6.12" · includes action noise14.6 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
- W.T.F. Silencers The Tatanka141.8 dB19 oz · 8.25" · includes action noise14.5 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
We don’t have any information on this suppressor beyond Thunder Beast’s test. It may be an older or renamed model.
- Griffin Armament HRT5142.0 dB19 oz · 6.4" · includes action noise14.3 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
- Warsaw Creek Armory Typhon 56142.2 dB15.8 oz · 7.5" · includes action noise14.1 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
- Warsaw Creek Armory Rudis142.2 dB16.4 oz · 8.5" · includes action noise14.1 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
- Griffin Armament Checkmate AM142.2 dB6.6 oz · 5.25" · includes action noise14.1 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
- FCA Ryze S-Ti142.5 dB11.3 oz · 7.25" · includes action noise13.8 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
We don’t have any information on this suppressor beyond Thunder Beast’s test. It may be an older or renamed model.
- W.T.F. Silencers The Tatanka Short Ti142.5 dB12.3 oz · 6.38" · includes action noise13.8 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
We don’t have any information on this suppressor beyond Thunder Beast’s test. It may be an older or renamed model.
- Griffin Armament M4SD-L AM142.6 dB18.1 oz · 6.6" · includes action noise13.7 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
- W.T.F. Silencers The Jackalope142.8 dB9 oz · 7.8" · includes action noise13.5 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
We don’t have any information on this suppressor beyond Thunder Beast’s test. It may be an older or renamed model.
- FCA Impakt K-Ti143.0 dB8.3 oz · 6.6" · includes action noise13.3 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
We don’t have any information on this suppressor beyond Thunder Beast’s test. It may be an older or renamed model.
- Griffin Armament PRC 300143.1 dB18.3 oz · 8.25" · includes action noise13.2 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
- HUXWRX Flow 556 L In143.2 dB19.5 oz · 5.75" · includes action noise13.1 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
- OSS HX-QD 556K144.8 dB19.2 oz · 5.65" · includes action noise11.5 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
- Silent Steel Micro Streamer145.0 dB17.3 oz · 5" · includes action noise11.3 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
- Replicator Ultra K145.6 dB13.2 oz · 4.75" · includes action noise10.7 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
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 1.64 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 both the reading and the weight and length shown above. 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.
Every row opens to show all three microphones, 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, the weights and the lengths. The resolution limit of 1.64 dB, the shaded band, and the 156.3 dB unsuppressed figure are worked out here from those measurements.
The 156.3 dB unsuppressed figure is from the 2024 SILENCER SUMMIT, published by Thunder Beast Arms Corp. See their 2024 results
Data from the 2026 SILENCER SUMMIT, published by Thunder Beast Arms Corp. See their results