In-ear headsets

In article ,
Wings wrote:

Overall, this was a good experiment and I really liked the in-ear
approach. Before I spring for $1000 for a Bose, I'd really like to know
how the ~$500 in-ear units work. Anybody have any experiences with one of
these?

I have both a Bose X and a Clarity Aloft in-ear headset. I like them
both about the same. They both block out about the same amount of
noise. The CA is slightly less comfortable (I wear glasses, and having
both the glasses and the CA frame hanging off my ears tends to make them
ache after a while) and slightly more annoying to put on (because you
have to wad up the little earpieces and wait for them to expand). But
on the other hand, the CA set costs half what the Bose set costs.

If you take price into account the CA's kick the Bose's butt. The Bose
is pretty nice, but it's nowhere near 2x as nice as the CA's. On the
other hand, the CA's are nowhere near 2.5x as nice as the $200 non-ANR
Peltor headset that I used for ten years before getting the other two.
If money is no object, sure, get the CA's. But IMO the non-ANR Peltors
are hands-down the best value in aviation headsets.

rg