headsets

Sour grapes? If you can't afford to own a quality headset don't knock it.

Buy a good DC passive used on ebay.

Dave


Thomas Borchert wrote:
,


I am thinking about
probably getting a David Clark, they seem to be pretty good quality,



With DC, you'll be buying 60s technology. Both ergonomics and
technology (think ANR) have advanced tremendously since then. DCs are
not called David Clamps for nothing. Also, they are simply too
expensive for what they offer. In my view, DC is not recommended.

The two key factors in a headset a

- wearing comfort
- good ANR

It just doesn't make sense to go without ANR these days. Buy a real
headset from the start. The entry level ANR from Lightspeed is what,
300? You're lucky to get a passive DC for that.

In my opinion, Lightspeed deliveres best on those two at an excellent
price.

Dave,

If you can't afford to own a quality headset don't knock it.


I can. I own a Lightspeed. Proudly.

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

Dave,

If you can't afford to own a quality headset don't knock it.


I can. I own a Lightspeed. Proudly.

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

Sour grapes? If you can't afford to own a quality headset don't knock it.

Buy a good DC passive used on ebay.

Dave


Thomas Borchert wrote:
,


I am thinking about
probably getting a David Clark, they seem to be pretty good quality,



With DC, you'll be buying 60s technology. Both ergonomics and
technology (think ANR) have advanced tremendously since then. DCs are
not called David Clamps for nothing. Also, they are simply too
expensive for what they offer. In my view, DC is not recommended.

The two key factors in a headset a

- wearing comfort
- good ANR

It just doesn't make sense to go without ANR these days. Buy a real
headset from the start. The entry level ANR from Lightspeed is what,
300? You're lucky to get a passive DC for that.

In my opinion, Lightspeed deliveres best on those two at an excellent
price.

,

I am thinking about
probably getting a David Clark, they seem to be pretty good quality,


With DC, you'll be buying 60s technology. Both ergonomics and
technology (think ANR) have advanced tremendously since then. DCs are
not called David Clamps for nothing. Also, they are simply too
expensive for what they offer. In my view, DC is not recommended.

The two key factors in a headset a

- wearing comfort
- good ANR

It just doesn't make sense to go without ANR these days. Buy a real
headset from the start. The entry level ANR from Lightspeed is what,
300? You're lucky to get a passive DC for that.

In my opinion, Lightspeed deliveres best on those two at an excellent
price.

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

" gdbutler at bellsouth.net wrote in message
news
I am a student pilot, and am about to buy a headset. I am thinking about
probably getting a David Clark, they seem to be pretty good quality,
however, i don't want to spend more on my headset than on my training.
Anyone have any suggestions as to good brands that are not outrageoulsy
expensive. Thanks


In 7 years and 1600 hours, my 13.4's have been squashed, dropped, rained on.
They've been exposed to twenty below winters and 105+ F summers. They've
spent 3 seasons getting knocked around in banner planes, down low in salt
air over the beach. They show some wear, scuffs and such from general
abuse, and some slight surface rust on one of the metal straps, but they've
never missed a beat, and by my own admission, they were treated with
anything but kid gloves.

As far as comfort and noise attenuation? Well, I've got a fairly large
head, and I never had a problem with them. Some weekends we'd spend 11+
hours in the plane, a day. I'm talking a Super Cub running open stacks and
stripped bare; no doors, windows, mufflers, nothing. Now my rear end and
back might have been sore, and my legs stiff, and I might have needed a shoe
horn to get out at the end of the day. But I never noticed the headset.
(BTW- a set of cloth ear seal covers do WONDERS for comfort; earmuffs on
cold days, and they wisk the sweat away on hot ones)

I had the old cloth covers and took my headset to a DC booth at OSH a
few years ago to inquire about the new cloth covers.
The DC rep looked at my covers and asked,
"Have you ever thought about washing them?"
When I got home... I did.

Mike O'Malley wrote:
(BTW- a set of cloth ear seal covers do WONDERS for comfort; earmuffs on
cold days, and they wisk the sweat away on hot ones)

"john smith" wrote in message
...
I had the old cloth covers and took my headset to a DC booth at OSH a
few years ago to inquire about the new cloth covers.
The DC rep looked at my covers and asked,
"Have you ever thought about washing them?"
When I got home... I did.


You know, that actually did cross my mind last night after I wrote that.
Just took a sniff; they're in with the laundry right now :-)

"john smith" wrote in message
...
I had the old cloth covers and took my headset to a DC booth at OSH a
few years ago to inquire about the new cloth covers.
The DC rep looked at my covers and asked,
"Have you ever thought about washing them?"
When I got home... I did.


You know, that actually did cross my mind last night after I wrote that.
Just took a sniff; they're in with the laundry right now :-)

I had the old cloth covers and took my headset to a DC booth at OSH a
few years ago to inquire about the new cloth covers.
The DC rep looked at my covers and asked,
"Have you ever thought about washing them?"
When I got home... I did.

Mike O'Malley wrote:
(BTW- a set of cloth ear seal covers do WONDERS for comfort; earmuffs on
cold days, and they wisk the sweat away on hot ones)