Suppressor sound tests / 9mm

9mm suppressor sound tests

5 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.

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9mm pistol (Canik METE SFX)2024

31 suppressors were fired on this same pistol, on the same day, with the same ammunition. 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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  1. B&T 9mm RBS126.5 dB
    14.9 oz · 7.72"
    26.5 dB quieter than unsuppressed
  2. YHM R45127.7 dB
    17.2 oz · 7"See this suppressor →
    25.4 dB quieter than unsuppressed
  3. PTR VSM2128.0 dB
    10.5 oz · 7.97"
    25.0 dB quieter than unsuppressed
  4. B&T SD-Impuls-OLS-M Long128.5 dB
    8.8 oz · 7.57"
    24.5 dB quieter than unsuppressed
  5. YHM Sidewinder M2128.6 dB
    10.2 oz · 8.35"See this suppressor →
    24.5 dB quieter than unsuppressed
  6. Rugged Obsidian 45 Long128.9 dB
    13.5 oz · 8.68"See this suppressor →
    24.1 dB quieter than unsuppressed
  7. TBAC Fly 45 Long129.0 dB
    10.5 oz · 8.85"See this suppressor →
    24.0 dB quieter than unsuppressed
  8. ECCO TLX 6.5in129.4 dB
    4.8 oz · 6.55"
    23.6 dB quieter than unsuppressed
  9. Rugged Obsidian 9 Long129.7 dB
    12.6 oz · 8.03"See this suppressor →
    23.3 dB quieter than unsuppressed
  10. ECCO TLX129.8 dB
    3.7 oz · 5.57"
    23.3 dB quieter than unsuppressed
  11. Innovative Arms Lex129.8 dB
    9.2 oz · 7.9"See this suppressor →
    23.2 dB quieter than unsuppressed
  12. BOSS Camacho130.1 dB
    27.3 oz · 10.22"See this suppressor →
    22.9 dB quieter than unsuppressed
  13. FPM Tatonka130.2 dB
    27.5 oz · 10.14"
    22.8 dB quieter than unsuppressed
  14. B&T SD-Impuls-OLS-M Short130.3 dB
    7.4 oz · 6.05"
    22.7 dB quieter than unsuppressed
  15. Dead Air Mojave 9 Long130.6 dB
    9.9 oz · 7.68"See this suppressor →
    22.4 dB quieter than unsuppressed
  16. AAC Illusion130.7 dB
    9.6 oz · 7.76"See this suppressor →
    22.3 dB quieter than unsuppressed
  17. Otter Creek Labs Lithium131.1 dB
    10.3 oz · 6.49"See this suppressor →
    21.9 dB quieter than unsuppressed
  18. TION Grenadier131.6 dB
    10.5 oz · 7.38"See this suppressor →
    21.4 dB quieter than unsuppressed
  19. TBAC Fly 9 Short131.7 dB
    5.7 oz · 4.4"See this suppressor →
    21.3 dB quieter than unsuppressed
  20. B&T Impuls-IIA131.8 dB
    12 oz · 7.84"
    21.3 dB quieter than unsuppressed
  21. W.T.F. Silencers The Tatanka131.9 dB
    17.6 oz · 8.04"
    21.1 dB quieter than unsuppressed
  22. Elite Iron Thud Lite .36132.4 dB
    14.8 oz · 7.22"
    20.6 dB quieter than unsuppressed
  23. AAC Ti-Rant 45M Long132.8 dB
    12.5 oz · 9.05"See this suppressor →
    20.2 dB quieter than unsuppressed
  24. Dead Air Mojave 9 Short133.0 dB
    8.2 oz · 5.93"See this suppressor →
    20.0 dB quieter than unsuppressed
  25. TBAC Fly 9 Long133.3 dB
    8.2 oz · 7"See this suppressor →
    19.7 dB quieter than unsuppressed
  26. YHM R9133.4 dB
    13.5 oz · 5.79"See this suppressor →
    19.6 dB quieter than unsuppressed
  27. FPM Nein134.3 dB
    13.4 oz · 7.7"See this suppressor →
    18.7 dB quieter than unsuppressed
  28. Energetic Sonus Ti135.1 dB
    9 oz · 5.4"
    17.9 dB quieter than unsuppressed
  29. Rugged Obsidian 9 Short135.7 dB
    8.6 oz · 5.05"See this suppressor →
    17.3 dB quieter than unsuppressed
  30. ECCO Cannine137.0 dB
    3.1 oz · 4.24"
    16.0 dB quieter than unsuppressed
  31. Energetic Sonus with Wipe137.4 dB
    13.5 oz · 7"
    15.6 dB quieter than unsuppressed

Products come and go from these events voluntarily. A suppressor missing from this list was not tested, nothing more. 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 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 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