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RST Engineering wrote:
Why renamed to me? Jim O.K., I guess I'll get out the 2X4, and start smacking. Jim, would you consider adding to your product line a device that feeds music into an individual aviation headset. I would bet you could design a pretty stout, useable device that would be superior in quality to, and more reasonably priced than, the PSE Muse. I, for one, would be interested in buying such a device. Happy Flying! Scott Skylane |
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H.P. wrote:
The audio output device needs a compression circuit to keep audio levels more near a constant output. There are portable cd players out there that have such a feature. My iPod *does* have an audio compression feature, and it is turned on. Quite simply, the minimum audio signal required to power up the Muse is higher than I would like it to be. Your headset may have a dip switch that's factory set to mono-out a stereo input - like the Bose headset. Try the other setting. Or it may be wired in mono. Try it on a stereo source at home. No switch on my headsets, they're good ol' mono DC's. Knowing that the majority of aviation headsets are mono, PSE incorporated a mini switch inside the Muse, to provide either stereo or mono output. The position of said switch has no discernable effect on the music I hear in my headsets. Happy Flying! Scott Skylane |
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Aviation headsets have notoriously higher impedance than the typical earbuds
that come with Ipods and other consumer audio devices. Might be an impedance mismatch requiring a matching transformer. "Scott Skylane" wrote in message ... H.P. wrote: The audio output device needs a compression circuit to keep audio levels more near a constant output. There are portable cd players out there that have such a feature. My iPod *does* have an audio compression feature, and it is turned on. Quite simply, the minimum audio signal required to power up the Muse is higher than I would like it to be. Your headset may have a dip switch that's factory set to mono-out a stereo input - like the Bose headset. Try the other setting. Or it may be wired in mono. Try it on a stereo source at home. No switch on my headsets, they're good ol' mono DC's. Knowing that the majority of aviation headsets are mono, PSE incorporated a mini switch inside the Muse, to provide either stereo or mono output. The position of said switch has no discernable effect on the music I hear in my headsets. Happy Flying! Scott Skylane |
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R.L. wrote:
Aviation headsets have notoriously higher impedance than the typical earbuds that come with Ipods and other consumer audio devices. Might be an impedance mismatch requiring a matching transformer. Ummm, yeah. And since the Muse is *designed* to input consumer audio devices into aviation headsets, I would expect the built-in circuitry to handle this just fine. IMHO, it does an "O.K" job, but not as good a job as I would like. Happy Flying! Scott Skylane |
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I have a "Muse" and I think it's of rather unimpressive design. The
battery door is loose, it's always a bit of effort to get the battery to fit in their correctly, and the music volume is insufficient even with the my iPod turned up and a fresh batter in the Muse. Also, it's ridiculously overpriced. Sportys has a new product that might fit the bill, though: http://www.sportys.com/acb/showdetl....roduct_id=7145 Anyone try that yet? This claims to be a both a cell-phone interface *and* a music interface. That can be a benefit because the add on cell phone interface like "AirCell" is *ridiculously* over expensive. All these devices need to do is match connectors and match impedances. There's just not much to it! My $0.02, Dave J -- jacobowitz73 --at-- yahoo --dot-- com BTB wrote: Anyone any experiences using "The Muse" for in-flight music ? http://www.avionicswest.com/muse.html Or there less expensive options ? BTB |
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I've used the music input on my Lightspeed 30-3G and it's fabulously
good, IMO. Kind of a pain to have all that automatic muting going on while flying IFR, though. |
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Without me doing a lot of research that most of you seem to have done, what
is the input, what is the output, and what is the function? And no, I won't do stereo. There are good reasons. Jim "Scott Skylane" wrote in message ... RST Engineering wrote: Why renamed to me? Jim O.K., I guess I'll get out the 2X4, and start smacking. |
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Paul,
Kind of a pain to have all that automatic muting going on while flying IFR, though. So switch it off. The switch is in the battery compartment. -- Thomas Borchert (EDDH) |
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And no, I won't
do stereo. There are good reasons. I'd be curious to know what they are. Jose -- The price of freedom is... well... freedom. for Email, make the obvious change in the address. |
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