Know your end use
I will whole heartedly admit I did not want to spend big bucks on a headset, but I needed something with comms that could also help isolate the sound as opposed to a single in ear piece. Stumbled upon these and here’s my experience so far:
For the price, these can’t be beat, let’s just get that out of the way. But of course there come trade offs. These aren’t particularly heavy duty, but they’re fine if you don’t plan on beating them up too much. The batter caps also tend to loosen up but I haven’t had a battery pop out yet or anything. I also added gel cups immediately, so I can’t comment on the stock ones.
The sound quality is okay, people don’t have an issue hearing me and I don’t have an issue hearing them. I should also mention that these are being used 3-4 times a week for military use, in more of a recon capacity. I’m not putting these through any tremendous strain and they’ve held up fine.
These are being used with a Motorola APX radio with a NON-amplified PTT from Disco32 and they work fine. I do know that there’s different mics for these that may require and amplified PTT so you might have to do some digging. But mine transmit and receive just fine. I will say, the wiring seems to be kinda sensitive because if it’s pressed too hard against my helmet, the sound kinda goes in and out but it hasn’t been a huge issue.
Overall, I kinda knew what I was getting for the money and I am satisfied thus far. Know what you want/need these for, not everyone needs an $800…
