![]() It's a thick profile to jam in your helmet, but does seem to cup the speaker around your ear to block out external noise. The headsets themselves use a hard rubber surround at the speaker. I worry that down the road, the sliders will wear out and spin more freely, making volume adjustment more difficult to keep still. The first 180-270 degrees are basically useless, at least with the student headsets. The volume control adjustment knobs are not even remotely linear - in a quiet room the audio is near silent until the last few degrees of a 360 degree range, where it ramps up exponentially to maximum. Fair enough for me, since I was wearing squishy foam ear plugs, but my student was not. Unfortunately I found that both my student and myself had the volume all the way up to hear properly through the headsets. And it runs on a single 9V battery, so you can carry spares and not worry about chargers. Easy to grasp in a hand without worry of inadvertently changing the volume or unplugging a cord. The unit is physically large, which I actually like. The large, snappy rocker switch and bright green LED make power on and off obvious and easy - a far cry from the dim red pinhole and tiny switch you get with a NADY or the slider on/off of the Chatterbox. I love the idea of independent volume control, and audio quality is top notch. The plugs push in tightly and lock in place. The headsets seem sturdy, the cords are long enough to reach and be out of the way but don't have the tangly curly telephone cord bit that others do. Overall, it's the best intercom set I've used. Winding Road had it on my doorstep the next day. But I've easily spent that twice over on Chatterbox and Nady units + replacement headsets. My Nady disappeared at the last PDS, so I ordered the Racecom from Winding Road. I used it for a full weekend of instructing, and put it through its paces. I have the intercom box, and two student headsets.
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