[Elecraft] Headphones

[kd4iz at frawg.org]

Clay,

Have to agree about OTE headphones. I am hearing impaired and have not found a "truly compatible" over the hearing aid solution. The best one for me so far is the Sennheiser S1 avionic headset (no longer available). I happened to have one from my flying days. It has the best TX and RX noise cancelling function I have found. It is a shame that Sennheiser did not continue them. I have not played with the Bose or LightSpeed sets since my early experience with both being too tight.

I have used the Sennheiser PXC 550 II set with the Kenwood D74A BT feature and gotten good voice reports. They are also OTE and good for those of us with larger hat sizes, but did not work acceptably without taking off the hearing aids. They do work without a lot of BT lag so might be acceptable for CW.  

I never used either with my KX3.

Jack - KD4IZ

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From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net <elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Clay Autery
Sent: Friday, May 8, 2020 10:11
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Headphones

My Sennheiser HD6XX are neither bulky or heavy, but over-the-ear from larger drivers generally produces better results all around.
I have A/B tested over-the-ear, on-ear, and in-ear...

On-ear, for me is the worst of all worlds.  I use my in-ear wireless BLE stereo set when I am in a noisy environment or in the field.
But there is simply no substitute for a proper set of OTE phones when you need to dig an audio signal out of a pack or out of the mud.

My 2/100ths of a paper debt instrument posing as "money"....

73,

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On 05/08/20 07:35, Barry wrote:
> IUnless you're in a multi-op or noisy environment, why go with bulky, 
> heavy, over the ear models?
>
> I've used a Sony MDR-W08 for years.  Appears that model is 
> discontinued, but there are similar ones.  It weighs 1 oz(!) and cost 
> about $20 when I got them.  Do a search and you'll find similar ones.
>
> Barry W2UP
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