[TenTec] Yamaha CM-500 boomset use with Orion II? ATTN K9YC

[Richards]

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 at comcast.net wrote:
> I appreciate the input, but I already own CM-500(s).
>