Headset Microphone Quality

"Thomas Borchert" wrote in message
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Marco,

What John says. Also, it has to be so close to your mouth that your
pursed lips would touch it.

Yes, it's real close. I do that almost instinctively. I also have the same
orientation with the other headsets and I still notice a difference in the
sound quality.

Marco

"Dan Luke" wrote in message
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Of the four headsets I own, the Lightspeed has the worst mic, the Bose the
best.

I feel my DC 20-10 microphones are better than the Lightspeeds as well.
Thanks for confirming my suspicion.

I wonder if they have aftemarket replacements for the Lightspeeds. I doubt
anything else will fit though.

Marco

After spending hundreds of hours instructing in 7AC Champs there are
only a few brands of headset microphones that have impressed me.

David Clarks are always good, with the exception of the Carbon mic
headset (I forget the number).

FlightCom Headsets are consistantly good and are reasonably priced.

Bose, of course is always good but expensive.

I have flown with many other brands that have good microphones but no
other brands have consistantly seemed to work well in loud aircraft
like the Champ. With the other brands I have experienced the only way
to tell if they have a good microphone was to go fly with it.

Most of my students that bought a headset that doesn't cancel noise
very well ended up returning them and buying a David Clark.

Brian
CFIIG/ASEL

"Brian" wrote in message
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After spending hundreds of hours instructing in 7AC Champs there are
only a few brands of headset microphones that have impressed me.

David Clarks are always good, with the exception of the Carbon mic
headset (I forget the number).

FlightCom Headsets are consistantly good and are reasonably priced.

Bose, of course is always good but expensive.

I have flown with many other brands that have good microphones but no
other brands have consistantly seemed to work well in loud aircraft
like the Champ. With the other brands I have experienced the only way
to tell if they have a good microphone was to go fly with it.

Most of my students that bought a headset that doesn't cancel noise
very well ended up returning them and buying a David Clark.

I'm actually thinking about getting the HEadsets Inc. noise cancelling
upgrade to my David Clark 20-10's.

Marco

On May 14, 11:04 am, "Marco Leon" wrote:
So a question out to the group: which headsets have the best microphones?
And the worst?

Although I can't pinpoint the issue, I feel like my Lightspeed Twenty 3G
catches too much background noise and I don't remember my other ones
sounding the same.

Marco

I had to replace a microphone on a flightcom a while back. During my
research in finding the proper replacement with the best price I found
out that the same microphone is used by a variety of manufacturers. I
can't remember who exactly, but I seem to remember that the the model
I had uses the same mike as some of the David Clarks and one or two
other manufacturers.