[Elecraft] [HAM] Yamaha CM500 Headset is a WINNER (and a BARGAIN)

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Is someone tried on K2? If YES, what kind of settings you are using on K2?

Thanks
7S7V


Wes Stewart wrote:
> 
> I second all of this. I've been using one since June.
> 
> --- On Mon, 11/23/09, Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
> 
> From: Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>
> Subject: [Elecraft] Yamaha CM500 Headset is a WINNER (and a BARGAIN)
> To: "Elecraft List" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Monday, November 23, 2009, 11:28 AM
> 
> Last night, K6MM posted to the NCCC Email list:
> 
>>Headset Report:  The new Yamaha CM500 headset performed flawlessly.   
>>Great reports, comfortable all weekend, good soundproofing.  A real  
>>bargain at $40 -- thanks again for the group purchase, Josh (W6XU).
> 
> After about 22 hours of use in SS-SSB, I'd like to reinforce John's 
> comments on these headsets. I find the headset quite comfortable, 
> the cans sound very good, and the mic produces GREAT audio. I bought 
> three, and they are replacing the EV RE16 that I've used exclusively 
> for contesting for the last five years!  If you worked W6BX, K9YC, 
> K6MM, AK6M, or W6XU, you were listening to the CM500. 
> 
> The mic in this headset is not a FLAT mic, but it's quite smooth and 
> clean sounding, and the EQ is close to perfect for ham radio and 
> contesting. It sounds MUCH MUCH MUCH better than most Heils I've 
> heard (and at 1/3 the price). Because it's EQed for communications 
> use and my existing voice messages were recorded with an RE16 (a very 
> flat professional recording/broadcast mic), I had to re-record all of 
> my SS messages.
> 
> The only negative of this mic (and it's a minor one, because it's 
> easy to work around it) is that it is a bit sensitive to breath pop 
> and handling noise, so you need to roll off the low end AND keep it 
> away from your mouth. I found myself alternating between two 
> positions -- one below my mouth a few inches, and the other a few 
> inches above and to the side, but out of the way of my nose (so that 
> breathing didn't get into the mic). Both positions are quite 
> comfortable, and both sound very good. I used the higher position 
> for recording the messages. 
> 
> One VERY important caution -- the output from this mic is VERY high, 
> and can easily overload the electronics that it is feeding if you 
> don't take care with gain settings. To record, I ran straight into 
> the sound card of my IBM T22 (eight year old Thinkpad) with the mic 
> preamp OFF, the gain at minimum, and the mic about four inches away. 
> Any closer caused the sound card to clip!  I did NO eq while 
> recording. 
> 
> When operating, I plugged the mic and headset into the rear panel 
> connectors, turned on the bias (tap 2 on the keypad while in the mic 
> select menu) and set mic gain to Low (tap 1 on the keypad in the mic 
> select menu). I used max cut of the two lowest bands on the K3 to 
> minimize the breath and handling noise. With other rigs, you may need 
> to do that with a series cap. 
> 
> 73,
> 
> Jim K9YC
> 
> 
> 
> 
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