I recently bought an ANR headset since everyone recommends it. Before that I was using a $100 headset from Amazon which works just fine and it got me through my PPL training, but I decided that it’s time to step up my game. I went on a flight with a passenger and gave the passenger my old headset. Mid flight I switched headsets to see the difference preparing myself to be flabbergasted only to find out that $1300 headset sounds slightly better.
I ended up returning my new headset and now I’m just sitting here and wondering if my headset was defective or is all that ANR supremacy just a huge exaggeration?
I don’t want pointing a finger so I intentionally didn’t specify on the brand of the headset I had bought and returned.
Has anyone been in a situation like that or maybe you can admit that you really forced yourself to believe that that difference is worth it?