Sounds great! Interesting that originally their Hypercon silencer was 1.5” x 7.5” and Inconel 718 and outer tube construction like AAC (their website still list it as such), then they buy our new silencers, and we gladly ship them directly to them, now their silencers are 1.75” x 9.5” titanium and tubeless...just like us. Even copied front end cap aesthetics almost exactly.
The added length and bore size is huge. Still, if you can’t buy them and they are only prototypes...who cares. We can build ringers to win sound comps, that are long, heavy, too expensive to be commercially viable, etc. But, it would simply be an industry disservice.
Yes, the website team wanted placeholders for pictures and stats. The models were quite literally empty shells and the specs were rough estimations of eventual size, looks, and materials. We hadn't yet decided between Inconel 718 or Stellite because we didn't build any rifle silencers until February 2017. When we did build our first rifle silencer, we decided we wanted to go for max sound reduction and a couple of other things, and with that comes length and width and weight. So to minimize weight we went with 100% Grade 5 Titanium. As you can see, the Kraken in real life doesn't look like the model renders on the website either. I think it actually looks way better now than it did 4 years ago.
We placed our order for your silencers on April 5, 2017, and the first Hyperion was built 3 months prior. That's not even accounting for whenever it was that we actually received them. So no, but good try.
Once we figured out how good the prototype, at the time, rifle silencer performed, we ended up changing naming conventions and applied the Hyperion name to all 7.62/6.5 series of silencers. The Helios name applies to all 5.56 silencers, Hekate applies to all 338 silencers, and Keres applies to all 50 silencers. We decided to go "tubeless", such as Ase Utra has done since 2005, to make the silencer even stronger than it was before compared to Grade 9 Titanium and after seeing perfect silvery titanium welds there was no going back.
But you are right about one thing, we do need to update our website.
After taking some time to think about this, I'll test the Hyperion. Understand the Hyperion has a 6.5mm bore, 1.75" diameter and 9.5" long: it should be quieter than anything with that amount of volume. The Q is shorter and has a .30 caliber bore. Since these are different calibers, I'm not sure what the goal is comparing the two.
So, this is not a balanced comparison that CGS is asking you to do.
Sure it is. One person claims theirs is quieter, the other person claims theirs is quieter.
I went and checked the bores on the silencers a few minutes ago to see how much of a difference there is between them. The Q models use an EDM taper bore. In the silencer I checked it started at ~.36" at the blast baffle and then ended at .38" at the front cap. The CGS Hyperion has a straight .316 bore. So to put it in other terms, the smallest variance between the two was .044 (the width of a paper clip wire) and on the large end it was a .064 variance (less than the thickness of a quarter).
Going to length, the Full Nelson is listed as 8.86" long with .225" of hex sticking out the front. We'll call this .225" of length from the flat part of the front cap a design feature. The Hyperion is 9.5" long, the same length as an AAC Cyclone for example, with .235" of design features sticking out from the flat part of the front cap. So we subtract design features from the overall lengths and this gives us, "useable length" for sound reduction.
That's 8.635" for the Full Nelson and 9.265" for the Hyperion, and the actual usable difference between the two is .63" or ~5/8 of an inch, which is ~1/16" less than the width of a dime.
If we were to remove the design features of the front cap, the part that literally doesn't do anything but look nice, the overall length of the Hyperion would be 9.265" with a perfectly flat end cap. This would put it in between a Gemtech Quicksand (9.2") and a SIG SRD762Ti (9.3") in length.
So if we really wanted to, by removing front cap design features, we'd be shorter than the SIG SRD762Ti. And even if we did just cut back the overall length by .75" and reintroduce the front cap design features, sound performance wouldn't suffer much at all. We have Hyperions that are missing 2 baffles and still perform within ~2dB of the full size. Like I said, we designed this silencer for sound. And as you can see the differences where it matters, actual sound containing length and bore diameter, both are pretty much negligible. Our 7.62 version performs just as well too.
Hansohn Bros, we certainly thank you for reconsidering and appreciate the time you're taking to perform the comparison.