[Elecraft] Heil Pro 7 headset with KX3 - RF feedback?

[Dave Fugleberg]

Jim's comments ring true for me too....Headphones are a very personal
choice, and simply MUST be tried to see if they work for YOU.  I own a
couple of Heil Pro-sets, and a Heil 'Traveler', plus various others. One of
my favorites has been a relatively inexpensive 'gaming' headset from
Kingston, one of several 'HyperX' models they sell.  It's marked HX-HSCS-BK
Cloud Stinger.  It has 3.5mm plugs for the mic and headphones, similar to
the Pro-set...I can plug them into the rear jacks on my K3 in place of the
Heil Proset-iC, and they just work.  Very comfortable (for me).  About $35
on Amazon right now. I paid a little more than that at Microcenter when I
bought them awhile back, but they had a display with a bunch of gaming
headsets where you could actually examine them.  If you have such a store
in your area, it's worth a trip just to see the variety they have and find
something that works for you.  Computer gamers, like hams, often spend long
hours at their 'rig', and are a much larger market, so there's a lot of
choices for comfortable, quality headsets.
Note that these do have the electret mic element and do require an external
voltage to work, but that's just a matter of turning on the 'mic bias'
setting on the K3 (I imagine your KX3 is similar - I don't own one).  As
with any time you change microphones, you'll want to check and adjust EQ,
mic gain, and compression as needed.  Once dialed in, I doubt anyone could
tell the difference over the air between these and any 'high end' ham
headset.
So, if you're looking to replace your headset, computer gaming headsets are
worth consideration...but again, what is comfortable for one ham is painful
for another, so YMMV.

73 de W0ZF

On Sat, Jul 2, 2022 at 3:08 PM Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:

> On 7/2/2022 12:36 PM, Peter Dougherty (W2IRT) wrote:
> > I gave up a long time ago and bought an Arlan
> > Communications radiosport headset. It's more expensive but it's
> absolutely
> > amazing. No clamping on my head,
>
> I had exactly the opposite experience on the two occasions I tried on a
> pair, 3-4 years apart. I found them to be an instrument of torture!
>
> I have a LOT of experience with headphones, have slept wearing Sony and
> Sennheiser headphones tuned to a jazz station for 20+ years, used them
> professionally mixing live recordings, use them now for serious music
> listening. In the shack, I've long used Sony MDR7506 for CW and RTTY,
> Yamaha CM500 for SSB, and find both quite comfortable in weekend-long
> contests.
>
> Headphones are a VERY personal thing, comfort STRONGLY depends on the
> size and shape of our heads and our ears.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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