Boston Metal
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I haven't been using them and I would like to know how severly I am handicapping myself.....
Frank
Frank
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How important are headphones? (Not including battery life)
- Thread starter Boston Metal
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reltolbert
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1. You can here the faint, sometimes deep, tone of a good target beside a bad target ( rusty nail, etc.) and be able
to distinguish between the two.
2. You're not bothering anybody with the speaker noise when wearing the headphones and most
people will leave you alone.
3. They block out the external noise that might prevent you hearing those fainter signals.
4. Obviously, increased battery life by 20%.
to distinguish between the two.
2. You're not bothering anybody with the speaker noise when wearing the headphones and most
people will leave you alone.
3. They block out the external noise that might prevent you hearing those fainter signals.
4. Obviously, increased battery life by 20%.
IMHO, they are of utmost importance. They enable you to hear those really faint whispers and tics that otherwise may not be heard. Particularly, on windy days. Often, a coin or some other good target is masked, or partially masked, by iron or some other piece of trash and unless one has on earphones all that may be heard is the trash item. And while a cheap set is better then none, a good quality set will give you good crisp clarity for distinguishing the various tones and could very well pay for themselves the first time they are used. HH jim tn
Low-Boy/LCPM
Active member
well with the LTD and the omega you listen to more then the tone if you are not then you are not really hearing what is in the ground and what the detector is telling you
rick in mi
Well-known member
I cant hunt without them, I really beleive I consentrate harder on what i am hearing.The down side is they get very uncomfortable in the heat.JMHO.
Headphones allow you to hear the small subtleties of audio characteristics, that you cant easily hear without headphones. You will hear a lot more "information" about your targets, with practice and depending on your machine, you just might be able to tell the difference between iron targets and good targets.
Listening to targets without headphones is a huge handicap compared to what you can hear about a target with headphones. All the above posts ring true to me except crusher28's. When it's in the 90's I still use the headphones because it makes that much difference in what is heard.
tvr
tvr
Boston Metal
New member
Heeding to eveyone's advice I purchased a nice pair of headphones and used them on a 90 minute hunt yesterday. I found I dug a few less holes than usual and more of them were coins. All clad today, but that is probably more due to the site than anything else. There is no doubt I was hearing more information, I'll need a few hours of hunting to to turn that information into better decisions.
Thanks to all that replied.
Frank
Thanks to all that replied.
Frank
You are probably bothering everyone within earshot of you. I called an old hunting buddy about 6mos ago to go hunt a place intown. He showed up with no headphones and an MXT. I was maybe 75 yds aways from him and I thought there wasa something wrong with my machine... and I was using phones. I could hear him everytime he would stop to pinpoint and it was really annoying and frankly I didn't want to be associated with it so I never call him anymore. It isn't as bad as leaving your holes uncovered but it is bad unless you are alone and deep in the woods... you may attract unwanted attention even there.
If cupped phones are too hotm and sometimes they are, get some 10 dollar phones that sit on your ear from RS. Get some with an inline volume or get the extra little extender cord that has one and use a large gemclip to attach it to your pocket or collar so you don't snatch them off your head all the time. If the cord is too long tie it in a loop knot or two until the length is right... but use phones please, especially if you hunt around other people.
J
If cupped phones are too hotm and sometimes they are, get some 10 dollar phones that sit on your ear from RS. Get some with an inline volume or get the extra little extender cord that has one and use a large gemclip to attach it to your pocket or collar so you don't snatch them off your head all the time. If the cord is too long tie it in a loop knot or two until the length is right... but use phones please, especially if you hunt around other people.
J