Which DC Headphone is best choice?

john smith wrote:
The DC H10-40 (wire boom with M7 electret element) is still available.
They do not advertise it, however.
I prefer the wire boom to the flex boom.
The wire boom can be moved closer to ones mouth and will remain in
position better than the flex boom of the the -13.4.


My first (and primary) headset is a DC H10-80 which is no longer made. It has
the flex mike and although the headphone part of the headset is all I could ask
for, the flex mike isn't. Like you said, it has a bad habit of easing away from
your mouth.

I have since added a H10-40 clone from Marv Golden to my flightbag for friends
to use. I happened to try it out not too long ago and found its wire boom mike
worked much better than the mike on my much more expensive David Clark headset.
A very well spent $80.



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Mortimer Schnerd, RN

VE

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:16:03 GMT, "Mortimer Schnerd, RN"
wrote:

My first (and primary) headset is a DC H10-80 which is no longer made. It has
the flex mike and although the headphone part of the headset is all I could ask
for, the flex mike isn't. Like you said, it has a bad habit of easing away from
your mouth.

My set is 17 years old and doesn't have this problem. But I bet if
you contact DC they'll fix it for you.

As an aside, I converted mine to ANR about 10 years ago. They just
keep on chugging.

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:02:06 -0400, Dave Anderer
wrote:

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:16:03 GMT, "Mortimer Schnerd, RN"
wrote:

My first (and primary) headset is a DC H10-80 which is no longer made. It has
the flex mike and although the headphone part of the headset is all I could ask
for, the flex mike isn't. Like you said, it has a bad habit of easing away from
your mouth.

My set is 17 years old and doesn't have this problem. But I bet if
you contact DC they'll fix it for you.

As an aside, I converted mine to ANR about 10 years ago. They just
keep on chugging.


Interesting comments on the flex mike. I've only used one on a DC once
and thought it was more difficult to position and keep in place.

I don't think I can justify ANR for the low hours I fly. I can't say I
have a problem with a standard headset.

I'm still looking at options but I see some have an option for
cellphone which I presume will work with an audio checklist which
would be useful? The SoftComm C-80 BNE has this option but it appears
to be a flex boom. Looks slightly different to DC but is it any
better/worse?

David