Agreed, your voice over the air and through somebody else's radio will not 
sound the same as what you hear in your own headphones. But wouldn't you agree 
that what you hear in your headphones in "Test" mode will be sufficient to tell 
you if your audio is badly overdriven and clipped, weak, distorted, excessively 
compressed, etc. What you hear in your headset will be a mix of "the good" 
through your bones and "the bad" that goes out over the air.  If it's really 
bad, you will hear it. 

Getting a playback made through a separate radio is always better. But 
self-listening is better than just watching indicator bars, too.

Lew K6LMP


On Sep 14, 2010, at 2:17 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:

> It's not possible to really know how you sound to others listening to your
> own voice as you speak, no matter what kind of phones you use. Much of the
> sound we hear when we speak arrives at our ears through the estuation tubes
> connecting our sinuses with our ears and through bone conduction in our
> heads. Those paths heavily modify our voices as we hear them. That's why
> people are usually surprised to learn they are listening to themselves when
> they hear a recording of their voice for the first time. 
> 
> Ron AC7AC

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