Suppressor sound tests / 9mm
9mm suppressor sound tests
6 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
10 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.
- B&T MP9 Compact
- B&T MP9 Full Size
- Blackbird X9G5
- Dead Air Mojave 9 Full Keymo
- Elite Iron Thud Lite 36
- Hammer Creek AR9SD Integral
- Rugged Obsidian 9 Full
- SilencerCo Omega 9k
- TBAC Fly 9 Long
- TBAC Magnus 375
The names without links don’t have a page on Baffled yet.
9mm pistol (Canik METE SFX)2026
17 suppressors were fired on this same pistol, with the same ammunition. It was not fired without a suppressor in 2026. At the 2024 Summit, the same pistol with the same ammunition and no suppressor measured 153 dB, and each reduction below is counted from that 2024 figure.
The bar above the list places each of the 17 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 12 dB. It stays on screen as you read, so hovering a row shows where that suppressor falls.
The shaded band is the tightest 3.23 dB stretch of this strip, holding 10 of the 17 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 pistol sound is not what separates these suppressors. What decides it is whatever else matters to you, like weight, length or price.
- Griffin Armament Optimus 45127.7 dB13.7 oz · 8.5"25.3 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
- W.T.F. Silencers The Tatanka Titanium130.1 dB14.3 oz · 8.7"22.9 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.
- FCA Menace Ti130.6 dB9 oz · 6.4"22.4 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 Menace K-Ti134.0 dB4.5 oz · 3.7"19.0 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.
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 3.23 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 3.23 dB, the shaded band, and the 153 dB unsuppressed figure are worked out here from those measurements.
The 153 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