wrote:

Given I'm a still student pilot I don't want to spend too much on my
first set and then decide I want something different down the track.

Your logic is flawed. If you buy a poor headset now, you won't be able to
concentrate on your lessons as well as you might, and you won't be able to sell
it very easily once you decide to upgrade.

While I agree that you probably don't want to spring for a Bose right now, you
should be looking into something like one of the low end Lightspeed sets.

George Patterson
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