Nice report, Jim. THANKS.
Those Yamaha headsets garner good reviews from home recording mavens, also.
I have yet to see any bad press on them.
I wonder if it would be a better headset for TT to recommend than that
crappy ol' headset sold by Warren Gregware and Assoc. That uses a
condenser mic, and it really blows - it is overly hot, and has poor close
talk characteristics. And the headphone receiver elements sound thin and
hollow.
Another one I figured might work OK is the Koss SB-40 which has a dynamic
mic element, and also has decent earphone receiver elements--sounds
excellent and costs under $40.
The only negative with either the Yamaha or Koss models mentioned herein is
they each need an appropriate connector adapter to work with the rig. If
TT made such a connector, or we lined up another source, such as W2ENY who
makes and sells them on eBay and a web site he has, then TT could easily
recommend a far better headphone/mic combo that the WG model they now
reference - I cannot imagine why they still do this considering the low
quality thereof.
I use a Sennheiser HMD-45-6 open air headset, or a Shure SM-2 headset, and
occasionally the Shure 512 headset...uses same mic element as SM-2... with
excellent results. Plenty of good audio reports - and that is a real boon
for a relatively new operator - the last thing I need is a lousy microphone
messing up the program!
Just MY take.
================ James -K8JHR =================
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From: "Jim Brown K9YC" <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Subject: [TenTec] Yamaha CM500 Headset
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