LightSpeed QFR CC ANR vs Bose Aviation X

Hmmm, interesting Cory... I settled on the 20-3G's for Fat Alberts
seats... Now, I have exactly the opposite experience, in that when I
turn OFF the ANR I the radio volume is overwhelmed by the engine noise
and have to turn it up to a loud level... When I turn the ANR back ON
suddenly the radio is blasting my ears.. The radio has no way of
knowing or responding to the ANR setting of the head set... This
behavior is identical to every ANR headset I have used... You can
check to see if there is a difference in the audio passed throught he
headset by listening to the radio with the engine off and switching the
ANR on and off...

I fly in a friends planes (GlassAir and P-Centurion) and he is a Bose
True Believer. with 8 sets of them.. I am not impressed with his
headsets... They sound good in his P-210, which is cathedral quiet to
start with, in fact so good I normally push them up on my hat because I
can hear just fine without them... In the GlassAir they lack passive
reduction for that rip snorting engine out front and the scream of air
going over the airframe at 230 knots...

On long flights, I have never found a headset that gets better as the
hours go by... This past summer I made numerous trips hauling
grandchildren around the Great Lakes.. 6 to 9 flying hours a day at a
time... From experience I know how the headsets aggravate after a few
hours.. I took DC's, and LightSpeed, and Telex sets with me and swapped
them as I went along... I was sick of headsets, and airplanes, and
sitting, and noise, and not being able to pee, by the time I painfully
crawled back out of the plane... It did NOT get better as the day wore
on... The LightSpeed is the best of the bunch in my opinion, ymmv..

denny