I have seen rfi issues with the QC2 and the Heil noise cancelling headsets. A couple of turns through a snap on fixed that. Neither are great at random shack noises but both seemed to work very well on fixed sounds like fans. I don't doubt that there are better solutions out there. Bose has one heck of a marketing budget!
The folks at Heil told me that they will have some new headphones/sets at Dayton this year that are supposed to be better then the Bose and more rfi proof then their previous headsets and more comfortable. CC Packet Cluster W0MU-1 W0MU.NET or 67.40.148.194 "A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over." Ben Franklin -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill W4ZV Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 3:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Bose noise canceling headphones Bill W4ZV wrote: > > If you **truly** want to block out ambient noise, there are much > better and less expensive solutions. If I recall correctly the $300 > (fair > traded) Bose QC2 units only have ~10 dB of attenuation. Bose doe not > spec their sound reduction because it really isn't so great. I think > I found the 10 dB figure above from a 3rd party evaluation of the > original Bose QC. > I found a review of the QC3 below: "Over the entire frequency range, they block an average of about 15 dB of noise" http://www.headphoneinfo.com/content/Bost-QuietComfort3-Headphones-Review/Pe rformance.htm (scroll down to the last graph ~75% of the way down the page. 73, Bill -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Bose-noise-canceling-headphones-tp2505028p2505587.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
