Are you going to Oshkosh? You could try a few there. From my experience,
though, all the sound demos are pretty good. I couldn't perceive differences
among the products offered.

FWIW, a year ago I switched to the Clarity Aloft headset and am now using my
Softcomm C-90 ANR as a passenger/spare unit. Although the Clarity headset is
very slightly less attenuating at the low frequencies, it has more attenuation
overall. This is apparently due to the design of the ear pieces. Plus, the
thing weighs nothing and the audio quality is spectacular.

I can actually hear the stall horn and the gear warning horn better with my
Softcomm headset than with the Clarity unit. I think this is because these
sounds are in that higher frequency range where the Clarity attenuation is better.

http://clarityaloft.com/index.htm

Truth in posting: The president of Clarity is a friend of mine BUT --- I
enthusiastically paid the $500 for mine after being given an opportunity to
test-fly the product. I am now worried that my wife will figure out how good
they are and make me buy her a set to replace her Softcomm ANR set.




On 6/24/2005 7:18 PM, Luke Scharf wrote the following:
I'm thinking about upgrading my Sigtronics S-20 headset. Right now, I'm
considering the Lightspeed QFR SOLOc and Lightspeed QFR XCc (with ANR).

I like the price of the passive headset and I also like that it has a
pretty high amount of muffling (28.7 db according to the selasfolk).

But, if the ANR headset really is worth the extra expense and hassle,
I'd rather get the right headset the first time.

I have several questions:
1. Has anyone here flown both models?
2. Do the numbers in the sales-literature mean anything in real life?
3. I know that the Decibel scale is logarithmic. Does the ANR noise
reduction reduce noise in such a way that I can compare headsets by
adding the passive and active ratings together -- or is the cumulative
affect that you hear when you turn on the headset require more subtle
math to calculate?

Thanks,
-Luke