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...