Suppressor sound tests / 9mm / 9mm pistol (Canik METE SFX)
9mm pistol (Canik METE SFX)2025
21 suppressors were fired on this same pistol, with the same ammunition. It was not fired without a suppressor in 2025. 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 21 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 13 dB. It stays on screen as you read, so hovering a row shows where that suppressor falls.
The shaded band is the tightest 2.97 dB stretch of this strip, holding 13 of the 21 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.
- Faxon Firearms Sentry 36128.5 dB20.2 oz · 7.25"24.5 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
- BOSS Silencers Commander Titanium129.6 dB16.1 oz · 8.5"23.4 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
- Guardian Defense GDM 9TI129.9 dB14.4 oz · 8.5"23.1 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
- BOSS Silencers Commader K130.6 dB12.9 oz · 6.5"22.4 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
- CAT SCS A1131.2 dB7.1 oz · 5.5"21.8 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
- ECCO Machine TLX 45 With Booster133.4 dB7.5 oz · 7.125"19.6 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
- Fox Creek Arms FX 9K-TI133.8 dB7.5 oz · 5"19.2 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
- Hammer Creek HC9K141.2 dB2.8 oz · 5"11.9 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 2.97 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 2.97 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 2025 SILENCER SUMMIT, published by Thunder Beast Arms Corp. See their results