On 2/18/2019 5:02 PM, Dick Dievendorff wrote:
I used mine this weekend, I am very happy with them. The headset has a 1/4 stereo phone plug that is quite robust when compared with a 3.5 mm plug and an adapter. The cable is long and seems sturdy. Very comfortable over the ear phones with good isolation.
If I had $195 (headset plus mic plug adapter) to spend and needed a good boom-mic headset, I'd buy a CM500 and a couple of bottles of a REALLY nice single malt. The only reason I can think of to spend that kind of money is if the headphones have REALLY great isolation from room noise, and then only room noise was a problem for me (like in a SSB multi-op contest station). And I'd do the A/B comparison before plunking down the bucks.
There's BS in the product description too -- "1 1/2 feet coiled cord for RF suppression" is nonsense. If anything the added length makes it a better receiving antenna for radios with RF problems! And there is zero magic to 600 ohms -- we haven't matched impedances in audio for nearly 50 years! It's simply a low impedance mic, and virtually all mics used in ham radio have been low impedance for at least that long.
I've been using a CM500 for about ten years, and the only thing that breaks is the cable, because I'm really a klutz with headsets. It's not replaceable, and I don't see a note that the cable in this one is either. If I'm not mistaken, the excellent Sennheiser headset DOES have a replaceable cable.
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