Headset Microphone Quality

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

"Marco Leon" wrote in message
...
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



If you have one of those foam covers over the microphone, remove it and
check the microphone for proper orientation. On my last BFR the CFI was
nearly impossible to hear over the engine/wind noise coming from his mike.
After landing I mentioned that his mike was not cutting it. We
looked....and the mike was turned 180 degrees from the proper position. The
mike's noise cancelling port was aimed at his face. The input port was
aimed at the engine...... No wonder!

Regards,
John Severyn
Livermore, Ca LVK

Marco,

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

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

"Thomas Borchert" wrote in message
...
Marco,

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


Pursed??? Is that anything like pouting?

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 have a set of David Clarks that I got on ebay for $238 and
they absolutely rock.

Erik wrote:
So a question out to the group: which headsets have the best microphones?
And the worst?

I have a set of David Clarks that I got on ebay for $238 and
they absolutely rock.


I've got a set of David Clark 10-80s, which they don't make anymore. At the
time, it was a top of the line product complete with electret mike on the
"pliable" boom (not the articulating type like the ubiquitous 10-40s had). I've
gotten a lot of complaints about incoherent speech, and I don't drink and fly.
I've got to absolutely make sure the mike is just brushing my lip, and I keep
one of those foam windbreaker thingees on it as well.

What gets me is that I never get a complaint with the el-cheapo Marv Golden
10-40 clones I also carry. Twenty years later and one quarter the price...



--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com

Mortimer Schnerd, RN wrote:

Erik wrote:

So a question out to the group: which headsets have the best microphones?
And the worst?

I have a set of David Clarks that I got on ebay for $238 and
they absolutely rock.



I've got a set of David Clark 10-80s, which they don't make anymore. At the
time, it was a top of the line product complete with electret mike on the
"pliable" boom (not the articulating type like the ubiquitous 10-40s had). I've
gotten a lot of complaints about incoherent speech, and I don't drink and fly.
I've got to absolutely make sure the mike is just brushing my lip, and I keep
one of those foam windbreaker thingees on it as well.

What gets me is that I never get a complaint with the el-cheapo Marv Golden
10-40 clones I also carry. Twenty years later and one quarter the price...

I don't know what model mine is, it's in the car. It does
have one of those articulating, jointed booms, and it does
have to be up close and personal with your lips. Don't share
the headset. But I love the crap out of them.

J. Severyn wrote:
"Marco Leon" wrote in message

On my last BFR the CFI was
nearly impossible to hear over the engine/wind noise coming from his mike.
After landing I mentioned that his mike was not cutting it. We
looked....and the mike was turned 180 degrees from the proper position. The
mike's noise cancelling port was aimed at his face. The input port was
aimed at the engine...... No wonder!

I guess he never read the POH for his 'complex' headset! LOL!

Cheers MarkC

"Marco Leon" wrote:

So a question out to the group: which headsets have the best microphones?
And the worst?

Of the four headsets I own, the Lightspeed has the worst mic, the Bose the
best.

--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

"J. Severyn" wrote in message
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If you have one of those foam covers over the microphone, remove it and
check the microphone for proper orientation. On my last BFR the CFI was
nearly impossible to hear over the engine/wind noise coming from his mike.
After landing I mentioned that his mike was not cutting it. We
looked....and the mike was turned 180 degrees from the proper position.
The mike's noise cancelling port was aimed at his face. The input port
was aimed at the engine...... No wonder!

Hehe. No, I checked that already. Lightspeed puts a nice "talk" sign on the
side that needs to face your mouth (no doubt to cut down on their support
calls!).