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Teacherjh,

My call is David Clark.


So how do with THOSE totally overblown prices?

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

I don't understand... I have 20XL's in Fat Albert these past five years...
They freeze solid in the winter, they lay on the glareshield and cook like
hot dogs in the summer, they get stepped on by uncoordinated passengers who
then put them on and twist the mic boom into a pretzel, the dog knocks them
off the glare shield every time he gets in bouncing them off the yoke, the
cords get pinched in the hinges of the seat backs; they take a likkin and
keep on tikkin... Dunno what other folks do to them...
Denny
"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message
news

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:81jKb.742859$HS4.5704392@attbi_s01...
Sadly, my 15s have broken again -- for the *fourth* time. This time the
earpieces have degraded (the covering over the foam is torn and
disintegrating, the stirrups holding the ear-cups to the head band have
BOTH
snapped, and the head cushion retaining piece has broken.

Jay...you gotta' stop using that "greasy kid's stuff".

I don't understand... I have 20XL's in Fat Albert these past five years...

Me neither. Although I think the "stirrups" broke from being splayed out
one too many times . We stow the backseat sets by putting them on the seat
headrests, and I'll bet my kids simply splayed them out too far one too many
times. The cold may have had something to do with it, too, although these
are our oldest pair, going back to '99, and that part never broke before.

On the other hand, the guy at LightSpeed said he was sending me the "new and
improved stirrups" -- so it sounds like I'm not the only one with the
problem? (And I think I've read about others with this problem here, but I
could be wrong.)

The earpiece material degradation is a known problem also -- the new
cushions are a completely new design. Ditto with the head cushion piece.

As I said before, our newest pair (the Twenty 3Gs) seem to be MUCH more
robust than these old ones that keep breaking. We've only had them since
OSH '03, however, so I'm going to wait at least 12 months before crowing to
high heaven about how great they are...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Thomas Borchert wrote:

Teacherjh,


My call is David Clark.



So how do with THOSE totally overblown prices?

No ****. A pair of DC's should go for $199, max.

Newps,

No ****. A pair of DC's should go for $199, max.


and that's for the ANR version gd&r

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

Newps wrote in message news:laqKb.745705$HS4.5806601@attbi_s01...
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After buying the
Lightspeeds I really can't see how DC foists that crap on people. Plus
my current Lightspeeds cost less than the DC's, weigh less and are much
more comfortable.

I'll give you my perspective. Many of my flying friends own
Lightspeeds. I've used them and found all of them to be more
comfortable than my DC ANRs. Almost all of these folks have also had
problems of some sort with their Lightspeeds. In my book, the DCs
are not uncomfortable, just less comfortable than the Lightspeeds.
I'll take reliability over a small measure of comfort every time.

Note : as you pointed out, not everyone has problems with
Lightspeeds, but if my personal experience (and that of many posters
here) is any measure, there is a difference in reliability between the
Lightspeeds and the DCs.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

"Newps" wrote in message
news:laqKb.745705$HS4.5806601@attbi_s01...
After buying the
Lightspeeds I really can't see how DC foists that crap on people. Plus
my current Lightspeeds cost less than the DC's, weigh less and are much
more comfortable.

You also forgot to add "and much less reliable"

Jay:

I just got a pair of the twenty3G and most of the time really love
them. Unfortunately, I now hear things I didn't before (I've been
using 15Ks) which makes me a bit unsettled -- the A&P and I are going
to do research on my engine...

One issue -- a popping sound as I'm taxiing and during takeoff. Don't
hear it again, but every flight so far, popping.

There's also a whine once in a while which I think is the final approach
of the ILS but it's been happening in other locations.

Once it warms up around here, I'll go do more study.

Blanche ) wrote:

One issue -- a popping sound as I'm taxiing and during takeoff. Don't
hear it again, but every flight so far, popping.

Are you sure that this popping is not the headsets? I have been using ANR
headsets for two years now, having started with Lightspeed 25XLs, then to
the 33Gs, and currently to Bose Xs.

Both the Lightspeed and Bose ANR headsets would occasionally pop, most
times during taxi and takeoff. It seemed to me that the popping was the
ANR circuitry's response to increased engine noise, either just after
startup or on takeoff.

I have to admit that the popping was much more common in the Lightspeed
models than the Bose, though.

--
Peter












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I've not heard this popping sound, Blanche. I hope it's not your engine!

However, this does illustrate an issue I've always found funny, which is:
People who say they "Don't want ANR headsets because they want to really
*hear* the engine..."

What a load of malarkey, eh? You can hear the engine -- and anything else
going on in the plane -- 10,000 times better using ANR headsets, than
without them.

Heck, I've got a rattle that drives me NUTS at 23 squared. It's the
co-pilot's ashtray cover vibrating.

Try to hear THAT without ANR!

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"
"Blanche" wrote in message
...
Jay:

I just got a pair of the twenty3G and most of the time really love
them. Unfortunately, I now hear things I didn't before (I've been
using 15Ks) which makes me a bit unsettled -- the A&P and I are going
to do research on my engine...

One issue -- a popping sound as I'm taxiing and during takeoff. Don't
hear it again, but every flight so far, popping.

There's also a whine once in a while which I think is the final approach
of the ILS but it's been happening in other locations.

Once it warms up around here, I'll go do more study.