How Can Something This Light and Small, Work So Well???
For the last few weeks, you may have read us extolling the
virtues of a headset that was the target of our first-ever News-Spy
Award program... the TSO'd Clarity Aloft headset by Aloft
Technologies. This didn't happen by accident... we were so
impressed by the diminutive dimensions and the outstanding
performance that it seemed like a worthwhile award -- and it was --
just ask Pilot Sandi Shofner, who won the first of our News-Spy
contributor awards and is enjoying her new Clarity Aloft Pro
headset as we write this!
The newest TSO'd product by Aloft Technologies, the "Pro"
version of the Clarity Aloft headset does what we thought wasn't
going to be all that easy to do... improve on a great product.
Redesigned and fully TSO approved, this headset combines the
technical superiority of the original with even lighter materials
(and how they do that without pumping it full of helium, we do not
know... grin) and ergonomic design.
To get right to the point, folks, this thing weighs an ounce and
a half... and nothing that light (outside of a Florida-born
mosquito) can possibly be all that uncomfortable. As a matter of
fact, the thing we like best about these headsets is that once
they're on, you really do forget they're there... which can make
for an interesting departure if you don't think to remove them
when exiting your aircraft. Grin.
The secret to the noise attenuation properties of the headset is
their employment of patented Comply Canal Tips, composed of
soft viscoelastic foam, the same foam tips used in advanced hearing
aids. More than simple earplugs, these foam tips provide full
spectrum noise reduction: 35-45dB of attenuation. This advanced
technology has been lab tested to prove that viscoelastic passive
noise reduction (VPNR) is superior to active noise reduction (ANR),
especially in the speech frequencies, precisely where clarity of
sound and hearing protection is most needed for aviation
communications.
The noise-canceling microphone used in the Clarity Aloft Headset
is a high fidelity noise canceling Electret Condenser microphone
with performance optimized for speech frequencies in extremely high
noise environments. Stage performers and musicians use this same
microphone because they must insist on the highest level of sound
reproduction.
All in all, it's a light, useful, QUIET, comfortable, affordable
and highly wearable headset... one of the best we've ever tried...
but enough of the narrative... check out the Aero-TV product
feature for yourself!
Aero-TV Features the New TSO'd Clarity
Aloft PRO Headset!
About Aero-TV: It's DEFINITELY Show
Time!!!!
OK, folks, here we go... we are NOW initiating the first
feature programming series for Aero-TV... we're going to take it
slow, but we're also going to try and be steady about this. DO
UNDERSTAND that this is the most complex media program we've ever
undertaken and what you're seeing is just the tip of the iceberg...
but from here on out, we will be doing our best to educate,
inform, and entertain YOU about all aspects of the exciting worlds
of aviation and aerospace.
If you've been an observer of the media and associated media
industries over the last few years, it's not hard to mistake the
fact that a massive revolution is taking place. Old sources for
news and information are falling by the wayside, having to change
their modus operandi or risk obsolescence (or extinction).
Electronic media and print media are both under the assault of
progress, and the online world has been a cornerstone for
revolutionary change.
We've been ready to go for a while, but to be honest, there's so
much more to this program than we've alluded to, and so we've been
building and planning a massive new organization within ANN. That
said, we're hiring talented new people as
fast as we can find them (a far more difficult
task than we had imagined -- REALLY good people are hard to find),
and we're brainstorming at speeds that would make a deorbiting
Space Shuttle feel like a slug. Suffice it to say that we wanted to
do this right, rather than right-now, and that the development of
this program has been the most carefully pursued undertaking we've
ever undertaken.
E-I-C Note: The
complete feature shown above is embedded in this
story, with most of the slick and useful functionality
otherwise available on the main Aero-TV
site (which will be upgraded aggressively
over the next few weeks). The ability to embed a video on
another web page is but one of the hundreds of amazing little
features that we've worked hard on, for many months now, to
implement in different phases of the initial release of
Aero-TV. It is, BY NO MEANS, the only way to enjoy unaltered
Aero-TV programming on other parts of the web... as we have
extensive plans for future functionality, but this feature
allows those with an interest in a specific Aero-TV News or Feature
program to embed it on a different web site, though we must
note that we reserve the right to forbid such use for those sites
or purposes that we do not feel fit in with the proper mission of
the Aero-News Network, Inc.
Webmasters or Administrators of well-trafficked aviation or
aerospace related sites, are welcome to contact the Publisher to
start conversations on how they may be able to leverage some of the
immense power of Aero-TV programming for their sites and
constituency by clicking the I Want Aero-TV For
MY Website! link.
Coming Soon!
Aero-TV Shows You How To Build A Glasair Sportsman
2+2 in RECORD TIME, Gets Up Close And Personal With the Newest
Continental Powerplant To Grace A Cessna, Gets A Sobering Briefing
From P.A.S.S., Flies The Piper Matrix, Hears What's Hot At Blue
Moutain Avionics, Gets Some GREAT Rotax Lessons, Checks Out More
"HIGH" Tech at I/ITSEC 2007, Hears From AOPA On Critical
Aviation Issues, Spills Some Juicy (and HIGHLY Detailed) Cirrus G3
Info, Catches Up On ALL Things SkyCatcher, Scores A BUNCH
of LSA Reports, and SO MUCH MORE!!!!! Do NOT Miss
Them!
ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (04.16.24)
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