"The Muse"

writes:

In rec.aviation.owning Javier Henderson wrote:
"Jim Fisher" writes:

"RST Engineering" wrote in message
Why renamed to me?

We need you to fix that, Jim. When you're done, will ya do something about
that Iraq situation and Global Warming?

I'd rather he'd work on important stuff. Like, no alcohol on mogas
in California so we can use the stuff in our Skylanes.

Hey! Run Jim for Gov!

It's been done. Instead we got the current example, who mandated that
the fuel leaves the refineries with the alcohol already mixed in.

-jav

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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)

And no, I won't
do stereo. There are good reasons.

I'd be curious to know what they are.

Jose
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