Headset Choice

Grumman-581 wrote in
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Of On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 11:13:02 +0100, wrote:
Adding another 31db of attenuation inside the earcup may be good for
protecting the hearing but does the increased volume cause any
overloading of the speakers as they are being driven much harder?

For my headset, I haven't noticed the speakers being overloaded...
Yeah, I have to turn the headset volume control up a bit, but the
sound does not appear to be distorted like you would see on the old
TVs with their tiny speakers when you turned them up too loud...



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.

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jad wrote:
Hi guys,

Im looking to buy a new headset but not sure which way to go..

The Flightcom Denali ANR's are looking good, but haven't heard much
about them!

The DRE 6500 looks great.. but I know very little of DRE, then I can go
for the David Clarks, which Im sure everyone will tell me to go for!!

Any suggestions or experiences with any of the above ??


Jad
Jad,
I have a pair of DC 20-10XLs. These are of the ENC type. I have put
about 1000, yes 1000 hours on them in the past year. Never a comfort
issue. Always works.
Get rechargeable batteries for them.....
Michelle

B A R R Y wrote:
On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 20:12:10 GMT, Michelle
wrote:


I have a pair of DC 20-10XLs. These are of the ENC type. I have put
about 1000, yes 1000 hours on them in the past year. Never a comfort
issue. Always works.
Get rechargeable batteries for them.....
Michelle


I have yet to see a woman with a melon the size of mine, and I even
live in land of women's basketball selling out 18,000 seat arenas
(man, are some of those players big!).

In fact, I'm not sure I really want to witness a woman with a sputnik
sized head.
And this is relevant how?
Michelle

B A R R Y wrote:
On Sat, 05 Aug 2006 18:19:04 GMT, Michelle
wrote:


And this is relevant how?


* I have a Sputnik sized head.
* DC's are very uncomfortable to me.
* You are a woman.
* I've yet to see a woman unlucky enough to have a head sized like
mine. Even 6' 8" women in the WNBA have smaller heads than me.
* You have no comfort tissues with your DC headset
* Folks who melon sized heads should know that DC headsets will seem
like vises.

Questions? G
Just wondering.
I do not have small head. I need the size to hold all of my intelligence ;-)

Michelle

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...