Bose Headsets

Jonathan,

Your statement is just ridiculous. David Clark has unmatched quality,
durability, and customer service.

Not at all. On the contrary, yours is. You're perpetrating a clever
marketing myth. Let's see:

- customer service
Google this group and even this thread, and you'll find several reports
about DC charging absurd amounts of money for repairs, and several reports
about the new manufacturers, e.g. LightSpeed, being consistently extremely
generous.

- quality I
Most manufacturers have dramatically changed the form of their headsets and
use new, innovative materials - for sound ergonomic reasons. DCs look the
same since decades. And they are called David Clamps by many users for good
reason.

- quality II
In every comparison I've seen, the ANR of DC never comes out at the top.
Not compared to Bose, not compared to LS, not to Telex nor Sennheiser. If
you have other data, I'd be interested.

- value
As for pricing, just compare a simple passive headset from LS, Sennheiser
and DC. DC is the most expensive, by a huge margin. Same goes for ANR
models. For what do you pay this increased amount?

- durability
If you think you need to abuse a 500 to 1000 $ investment, go ahead and get
a DC. If you handle any headset halfway decently, you won't have a problem.
Even LS got over their initial problems years ago.

So, if the DCs don't shine in ANR, nor in ergonomics, nor in value - where
is my statement ridiculous?

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Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

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Thomas Borchert wrote:

Jonathan,

Your statement is just ridiculous. David Clark has unmatched quality,
durability, and customer service.

Not at all. On the contrary, yours is. You're perpetrating a clever
marketing myth. Let's see:


Ah, now I remember you... you're a troll. I will not feed the troll any
further.



JKG

Jonathan,

Ah, now I remember you... you're a troll. I will not feed the troll any
further.


You start calling me ridiculous, I answer with a long list of points to
support my view - and you have NOTHING but this to back up your view?
PATHETIC!

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Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

On 2006-06-16, Thomas Borchert wrote:
Most manufacturers have dramatically changed the form of their headsets and
use new, innovative materials - for sound ergonomic reasons. DCs look the
same since decades. And they are called David Clamps by many users for good
reason.

Headsets are in the head of the beholder (!) - personally, I find my
David Clark H10-13.4 (which came with gel ear seals) to have been
perfectly comfortable and durable for over 1000 hours of flying.

I have tried the Bose headsets - a friend has some - and out of all the
ANR sets I've tried, Bose are the only ones with worthwhile ANR, to me
they were in a class of their own. But so they should be - my David
Clarks were abour $250, the Bose headsets were four times more
expensive. (Incidentally, out of all the headsets I've tried, David
Clark and Bose are the only ones I find really comfortable. In
particular, I've never got on with the Lightspeeds).

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