Bose Upgrades A Game-Changing Headset

If you've been saving your loose change in a jar for the day you could finally spring for the Bose Aviation Headset Ten, keep the jar going, but you won't be buying a Ten. The product has been discontinued effective immediately. The replacement is the Bose Aviation Headset A20, and you'll like it.

The active-noise-reduction headset marketplace has been getting more crowded, with less-expensive products which have specs which look like they don't fall too far short of Bose. The A20 raises the bar, providing a meaningful improvement in noise reduction which was demonstrated in a theater built by the company here at Oshkosh to introduce the new product to the media. We got to A-B the 10 and the 20 with the room filled with amplified aircraft cabin noise, and it's impressive.

The A20 also offers an aux input jack on the cord-mounted control module, a switch to select whether your com radio will mute or mix with the aux audio, and an optional bluetooth interface for use with your mobile phone. Two AA batteries are said to last 45 hours. The price is about a thousand dollars US, or 1100 with bluetooth.

And yes... the Ten will still be fully supported, although its value on Ebay probably just dropped.

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