Howard Leight Earmuffs (Flat Dark Earth)

To start I would like to say that I wanted very much to like this product and to give it a good review but I simply can't. I loved the idea of having a pair of these rugged and durable shooting earmuffs to use as everyday headphones because I thought It was a cool idea but the number of issues with practicality that I have faced have been positively maddening. The connectivity issues I have with these are endless. When trying to connect these headphones to a device they do the most random and unpredictable behaviors. It will sound a beep through the headphones as if it connected but display on the phone/device that it is still trying to connect, then when it eventually connects it often only partially connects. Typically on my device when it is fully connected it will say "active, 100% battery" but sometimes it will only say "active" or "100% battery" and then randomly disconnect. Below I attached a screen recorded video of me attempting to get these things to connect for a solid 9 minutes without any success until the very end. If you can put up with this, then that's good because I certainly can't. An important note is that these issues seemed to have worsened over the second half of its life as I have been using them, I have had them for about one year at this point and it is at its worst right now. It should also be noted that as of about two months ago these things had not sustained any damage or adverse treatment and we're still displaying the same issues. The video was taken right around the beginning of the two month period. Overall disappointed with how poorly these things obtain and maintain the connection they were designed to facilitate. There's always a part of me that thinks "you had one job" every time it screws up lol.