I have used both, and the Yamana CM-500 is a way better headset.
You MIGHT get him to wire up a connector for it... W2ENY and another
guy, Alan WA2AC, who is on ebay as vendor nameAudio-Comm, also makes
them, just as well for substantially less, and has better commo with
customers (we used him to make a pile of them for a contest station)
but they both make good ones.
I can say, after testing, a GREAT MANY expensive and inexpensive
headsets for this purpose that many work well, Koss, Sennheiser,
Yamaha, and several $5 cheap Chinese headsets from eBay... but the
Yamaha provides good value at a good price point, and you will be able
to get acceptable warranty service from it. I prefer the KOSS sets
with lifetime warranty for cheap backups, and use Sennheiser sets as
main daily use sets. The can range in price by as much as $100 and they
all work acceptably well. A KOSS SB-45 set replaced a Yamaha CM_500
during the MI QSP Party last year when the Yamaha cable failed. No one
could see any difference in performance and we set a record placing
First in the contest. (shameless plug.)
But I would back Jim on the CM-500 over the set you mention - not that
it will not work OK, but I feel the quality of the Yamaha set is
sufficiently higher for the price to say something about it.
===== Just MY take... K8JHR ===============================
On 12/9/2011 4:37 PM, amsctalx@comcast.net wrote:
I appreciate the input, but I already own CM-500(s).
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