Headset Choice

[jad[_1_]]

Hi guys,

Im looking to buy a new headset but not sure which way to go..

The Flightcom Denali ANR's are looking good, but haven't heard much
about them!

The DRE 6500 looks great.. but I know very little of DRE, then I can go
for the David Clarks, which Im sure everyone will tell me to go for!!

Any suggestions or experiences with any of the above ??


Jad

[Jon Kraus]

Do a Google Groups search for "headset" and you'll have more information
than you can possibly imagine.

jad wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Im looking to buy a new headset but not sure which way to go..
>
> The Flightcom Denali ANR's are looking good, but haven't heard much
> about them!
>
> The DRE 6500 looks great.. but I know very little of DRE, then I can go
> for the David Clarks, which Im sure everyone will tell me to go for!!
>
> Any suggestions or experiences with any of the above ??
>
>
> Jad

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jad wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Im looking to buy a new headset but not sure which way to go..
>
[snip]
> Any suggestions or experiences with any of the above ??
>
>
> Jad

Make sure to wear some first. And wear them for some time in the
airplane. The most wonderful quality and sound in the world are no use
if the bloomin' things hurt your head. I've got 2 pairs of AVCOMM
AV-200s. Cheap, no ANR, etc. But they're decent and they fit _me_. I've
had several folks talk to me about David Clarks and last Friday I
finally got to wear a set on a local flight. (I went up with a friend
and he offered me a pair.) I wore them for the 30 minutes to where we
went, and wore mine back. They sounded fine, but they hurt my head.
Now, my head is large (no razzing, please) - I had to special order my
motorcycle helmet because nothing in the store fit. So David Clarks
might fit you fine. But I'd want to know that before I spent the money
for any of the above.

John Stevens
PP-ASEL

[ktbr]

jad wrote:
> The Flightcom Denali ANR's are looking good, but haven't heard much
> about them!

If you leave them in your car or airplane when the temp is below
freezing the band will crack in half when you try to put them on
your head.

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On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 20:22:42 +1000, jad
> wrote:

>Hi guys,
>
>Im looking to buy a new headset but not sure which way to go..
>
>The Flightcom Denali ANR's are looking good, but haven't heard much
>about them!
>
>The DRE 6500 looks great.. but I know very little of DRE, then I can go
>for the David Clarks, which Im sure everyone will tell me to go for!!
>
>Any suggestions or experiences with any of the above ??
>
>
>Jad

There's been two threads very recently:
"what headset to buy" & "Which DC Headphone is best choice?"

I asked this question about a month ago.
After looking for a good passive headset I discovered there are
inexpensive active headsets. Following advice in this group I have
opted for the following, but yet to purchase:

MG Golden Eagle. It's clean...in other words there aren't many knobs
and nuts that you can lose and make the headset unusable. In a
perfect world you should be able to get 38 db of noise reduction in
the ANR mode and it is very light weight. It operates on 2 AA
batteries and has cell phone/music interface...all for $239.95. It is
made by Lightspeed and has Marv Golden logo on it.

David

[ET]

jad > wrote in
:

> Hi guys,
>
> Im looking to buy a new headset but not sure which way to go..
>
> The Flightcom Denali ANR's are looking good, but haven't heard much
> about them!
>
> The DRE 6500 looks great.. but I know very little of DRE, then I can
> go for the David Clarks, which Im sure everyone will tell me to go
> for!!
>
> Any suggestions or experiences with any of the above ??
>
>
> Jad

Get one of these: http://www.quiettechnologies.com/ then click on
"halo"

They, and there direct competition (clarity aloft and Lightspeed LS1)
offer a 30 day "free look". All of them are quieter then ANR & Cheeper
too. ($340)

--
-- ET >:-)

"A common mistake people make when trying to design something
completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete
fools."---- Douglas Adams

[Grumman-581[_1_]]

On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 20:44:37 GMT, ET > wrote:
> Get one of these: http://www.quiettechnologies.com/ then click on
> "halo"
>
> They, and there direct competition (clarity aloft and Lightspeed LS1)
> offer a 30 day "free look". All of them are quieter then ANR & Cheeper
> too. ($340)

Or you can just use a normal headset and add a pair of foam 31 dB
earplugs with it... With my headset, that gives me 60 dB of noise
attenuation...

[Grumman-581[_1_]]

On 2 Aug 2006 06:39:48 -0700, wrote:
> Now, my head is large (no razzing, please) - I had to special order my
> motorcycle helmet because nothing in the store fit.

I know the feeling... I laugh at the sizing charts for the ball caps
that say "one size fits all"... When I'm looking for a motorcycle
helmet, I'm lucky if in an entire wall of helmets, I can find even one
that fits... On my last helmet, I was not able to find one locally, so
I ordered one online... Using the manufacturers sizing chart, the 2XL
size should have fit me... Yeah, if I took a hammer to the inner
styrofoam and 'reshaped' it... Usually a 7-3/4 to 7-7/8 fits me well
enough that I don't have a crease on my forehead when I remove the
helmet... Turns out that I use my old Shoei helmet and let Grace and
Kaitlyn use my new one... Too bad -- the new helmet is definitely
cooler than the old one... Plus it has considerably fewer scratches on
it...

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On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 07:22:08 GMT, Grumman-581
> wrote:

>On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 20:44:37 GMT, ET > wrote:
>> Get one of these: http://www.quiettechnologies.com/ then click on
>> "halo"
>>
>> They, and there direct competition (clarity aloft and Lightspeed LS1)
>> offer a 30 day "free look". All of them are quieter then ANR & Cheeper
>> too. ($340)
>
>Or you can just use a normal headset and add a pair of foam 31 dB
>earplugs with it... With my headset, that gives me 60 dB of noise
>attenuation...

Adding another 31db of attenuation inside the earcup may be good for
protecting the hearing but does the increased volume cause any
overloading of the speakers as they are being driven much harder?

[Grumman-581[_1_]]

On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 11:13:02 +0100, wrote:
> Adding another 31db of attenuation inside the earcup may be good for
> protecting the hearing but does the increased volume cause any
> overloading of the speakers as they are being driven much harder?

For my headset, I haven't noticed the speakers being overloaded...
Yeah, I have to turn the headset volume control up a bit, but the
sound does not appear to be distorted like you would see on the old
TVs with their tiny speakers when you turned them up too loud...

[ET]

Grumman-581 > wrote in
:

> Of On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 11:13:02 +0100, wrote:
>> Adding another 31db of attenuation inside the earcup may be good for
>> protecting the hearing but does the increased volume cause any
>> overloading of the speakers as they are being driven much harder?
>
> For my headset, I haven't noticed the speakers being overloaded...
> Yeah, I have to turn the headset volume control up a bit, but the
> sound does not appear to be distorted like you would see on the old
> TVs with their tiny speakers when you turned them up too loud...
>
>

Of course, this doesnt solve the one of the main comfort issues in hot &
humid areas, SWEATTY EARS.. but it's certainly a cheap way to enhance ear
protection with traditional headsets.

--
-- ET >:-)

"A common mistake people make when trying to design something
completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete
fools."---- Douglas Adams

[Michelle[_1_]]

jad wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Im looking to buy a new headset but not sure which way to go..
>
> The Flightcom Denali ANR's are looking good, but haven't heard much
> about them!
>
> The DRE 6500 looks great.. but I know very little of DRE, then I can go
> for the David Clarks, which Im sure everyone will tell me to go for!!
>
> Any suggestions or experiences with any of the above ??
>
>
> Jad
Jad,
I have a pair of DC 20-10XLs. These are of the ENC type. I have put
about 1000, yes 1000 hours on them in the past year. Never a comfort
issue. Always works.
Get rechargeable batteries for them.....
Michelle

[Michelle[_1_]]

B A R R Y wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 20:12:10 GMT, Michelle
> > wrote:
>
>
>>I have a pair of DC 20-10XLs. These are of the ENC type. I have put
>>about 1000, yes 1000 hours on them in the past year. Never a comfort
>>issue. Always works.
>>Get rechargeable batteries for them.....
>>Michelle
>
>
> I have yet to see a woman with a melon the size of mine, and I even
> live in land of women's basketball selling out 18,000 seat arenas
> (man, are some of those players big!).
>
> In fact, I'm not sure I really want to witness a woman with a sputnik
> sized head.
And this is relevant how?
Michelle

[Michelle[_1_]]

B A R R Y wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Aug 2006 18:19:04 GMT, Michelle
> > wrote:
>
>
>>And this is relevant how?
>
>
> * I have a Sputnik sized head.
> * DC's are very uncomfortable to me.
> * You are a woman.
> * I've yet to see a woman unlucky enough to have a head sized like
> mine. Even 6' 8" women in the WNBA have smaller heads than me.
> * You have no comfort tissues with your DC headset
> * Folks who melon sized heads should know that DC headsets will seem
> like vises.
>
> Questions? <G>
Just wondering.
I do not have small head. I need the size to hold all of my intelligence ;-)

Michelle

[Grumman-581[_1_]]

On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 19:53:03 GMT, ET > wrote:
> Of course, this doesnt solve the one of the main comfort issues in hot &
> humid areas, SWEATTY EARS.. but it's certainly a cheap way to enhance ear
> protection with traditional headsets.

Living in the Houston area, I'm well acquainted with the concept of
sweaty ears... The cotton covers for the ear cups help quite a bit
with regards to this...

When I went flying this evening, I made it a point to check to see
what brand headset I had been using all these years... It's a SoftComm
Silver Edition... At that time, they rated it at 29 dB which was the
highest rating that I could find on any of the headsets... There
really wasn't any way to increase the noise reduction (cheap or
otherwise) as much as the set of earplugs were able to do... The ANR
headsets of the day usually have a lower PNR value and even with the
addition of the ANR value, it didn't come close to the 60 dB I was
supposedly getting with my headset plus earplugs... I don't need both
of them when I'm flying my plane, but I sure did with the gyrocopter
that I was flying at the time...