Auto-shutoff on both components worked perfectly I don’t recall turning the units off on purpose once. As our test unit got recharged after 4 hours of use, I never got to hear this though. The Tango’s earcups aren’t small but they are comfortable.īattery life is promised to be 12 hours, and there’s a visual and audible warning when there’s ‘only’ three hours charge remaining. It’s pretty fundamental to enjoying music in-flight there’s nothing worse than stop-start audio to ruin that experience. If you’re streaming music and you receive a transmission, ComPriority quickly but gently lowers, not completely though, the volume of music and other audio from auxiliary devices. That said, radio transmissions were clear to make and receive with good side tone. For me this was most apparent when listening to myself speak – sometimes it was like having your head in a box. I don’t think Tango is quite as good as Lightspeed’s own Zulu 2, and is some way behind the likes of AKG and Bose. It was a work of seconds to link my phone, and making a call worked fine when I could get a good signal. Tango pairs easily with other devices via Bluetooth too. The promise is that up to six Tangos can be used together without interference – perfect if you’ve got something with lots of seats. Whatever magic they’ve come up with, it proved solidly reliable through all testing. Neither Wi-Fi nor Bluetooth are used for the link between the two units, but instead Lightspeed has developed its own proprietary ‘Lightspeed Link’ connection. There’s a steel clip that can be used in three positions, plus tabs on both ends if you’re looking to anchor the unit firmly somewhere in the cockpit.īattery box, bluetooth module and backup cables are all enclosed in this neat unit. Using the backup is easy, though it does disable the ANR. With 41in of cable length, your headset should always be in reach if you need to plug in. There’s a backup cable to physically connect the module to the headset in the event you lose power and therefore the Bluetooth connection. Good news here the charging point is on the side and easy to get to… must have been different designers for each component. A fabric cover gives access to change cable length (there’s 32in to play with) and to get to the battery compartment (spare batteries by the way, are £40). The panel interface module is a bit of a brick, but it is a nicely designed brick. The headband pad and ear seals are nicely squishy, the latter seal really well around your ears even if you wear glasses like I do. Weighing 510g, it’s very comfortable to wear for extended periods. The microphone swings through 270º so you can wear it on the left or the right, though that’s less of an issue when you don’t have trailing cables to organise. That might be a pragmatic solution, but when you’re paying this much money, then that shouldn’t be an issue you have to fix with a Black & Decker. “I’d just drill a USB charging lead sized hole in the door” was a remark I heard from our publisher. Quite why they didn’t make easy access to the changing port I’m not sure, but this will be an obvious fix if there’s a Tango v.2. Pay attention though, as if you didn’t, then you’ll spend a while figuring how to close it. Seeming flimsy, and held shut with an awkward latch, it swings open in a manner different to how you might expect such a component to work.īattery box door on Tango headset is more complicated than it needs to be. Unfortunately, the door is a poor piece of design. While there’s no reason to need frequent access to the battery, you do need to get to the USB charge point that also lives here. On one earcup there’s a large rocker switch for volume (but no individual left and right adjustment), while the other cup has a door for the battery. That’s no bad thing as the Sierra is actually a pretty decent headset. Visually, the headset is not the slimmest, and it appears to use many of the plastic components of Lightspeed’s ‘budget’ ANR Sierra unit (tested in FLYER June 2014). Both use the same Li-ion rechargeable batteries, though there is a panel power option available, which eliminates one battery. Made up of two components, there’s the headset and the panel interface. That is until Lightspeed came along with its Tango ANR wireless unit we got our hands on one of the first in the UK and took it flying. Well, one or two wireless headsets have appeared over the last few years, but there’s never been a unit from one of the big name headset manufacturers. In my experience, when you ask pilots what innovation they really want in a headset, they’ll most likely reply “no leads”.
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