ANR headsets for piston planes

Anyone got any experience of these? I use a Sennheiser at work and it's
good but not for pistons (wrong cups). Some of my colleagues have the
Bose X but, to be honest, I'm not convinced it's worth the money. I am
perhaps interested in the Telex or Pilot varieties but wondered if
anyone had any experiences?

My last non-ANR was a Telex echelon which fitted like a glove, but I was
persuaded to flog it to a student! The things we do...

David

"David Perry" <david_perry@btconnect.com> wrote in message
news:OXVPjb086dQaY5eRdavid_perry@btconnect.com...
> Anyone got any experience of these? I use a Sennheiser at work and it's
> good but not for pistons (wrong cups). Some of my colleagues have the
> Bose X but, to be honest, I'm not convinced it's worth the money. I am
> perhaps interested in the Telex or Pilot varieties but wondered if
> anyone had any experiences?
>
> My last non-ANR was a Telex echelon which fitted like a glove, but I was
> persuaded to flog it to a student! The things we do...
>
> David

I had my DCs converted by Richard Holder and was so pleased with the result
that I had the px set done too.
Cynthia G-TRIO

"David Perry" <david_perry@btconnect.com> wrote:

>Anyone got any experience of these? I use a Sennheiser at work and it's
>good but not for pistons (wrong cups). Some of my colleagues have the
>Bose X but, to be honest, I'm not convinced it's worth the money. I am
>perhaps interested in the Telex or Pilot varieties but wondered if
>anyone had any experiences?
>
>My last non-ANR was a Telex echelon which fitted like a glove, but I was
>persuaded to flog it to a student! The things we do...

The Bose-X is very good. Whether it's worth the money is a personal
choice, of course. I have 4 of them, 5-6 years now, and will say they
are no good for a careless (e.g. club/school) environment because they
will get smashed and if not they will get nicked. The aircraft powered
version also has a flimsy plastic connector which breaks easily.

It would not suprise me if somebody else brought out a similar
lightweight low-clamping-force headset which is as good but I haven't
heard any definitive story on this.

It's easy to get attenuation with a high clamping force e.g. D-Clarke
but it does your head in after a few hours. There again, for short
flights, it doesn't matter.

Thanks all.

I am certain of the advantages of ANR thats for sure - I use the
Sennheiser ANR at work but the "over the ear2 style for the jet, which
don't work all that well in pistons at club level when instructing.

I hadn't really considered the "in the ear" style but might well have a
gander at them.

I have found that "pilotmall" in the US sells the ANR sets for dollars =
pounds, which is a great baargain at the moment. It makes Bose X about
400 quid tops!

Dave S...yes I gave you the pillar drill...small world isn't it! Hope
it is still going well?

Thanks all...time to try some on i think.

david

Simon Hobson <simonsnews@thehobsons.codotuk> wrote:

>Lastly, if you fly a fair bit, and you budget extends to them, there are now
>units which go IN your ear like industrial foam ear plugs.

I bought the Lightspeed Mach 1 headset (of that type) and it was
basically unusable.

The attenuation was OK if fitted very carefully into your ear but the
slightest tug on the cable would dislodge it sufficiently for noise to
get in. There is a custom earplug option for it (you visit somebody
who makes custom mouldings) at a fair old price, and this is perhaps a
solution.

It had far and away the best mike (for both speech quality and noise
cancellation) that I have ever used though...

Great idea but not quite there. I think it would be OK for passengers,
particularly women who prefer to not muck up their hair. I would
certainly use it as a passenger, but then I rarely fly as one. And
there is the hygiene issue; you can't just share it, you have to keep
a bag of earplugs, one for each person, with it. A bit like oxygen
cannulas.

I sold mine on Ebay.

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 8:18:22 +0000, Karl-Heinz Kuenzel wrote
(in message <er150e$eop$03$1@news.t-online.com>):

> I converted my DCs two years ago with a kit from headsetsinc. But the
> company seems to be out of business. Any further information?

No idea, but it's a shame if they have gone - a good product that "does what
it says on the tin"