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<blockquote data-quote="kristianjohnsen" data-source="post: 40800" data-attributes="member: 441">Re: Aircraft sound systemsHere&#039;s a mental experiment you might not like:&nbsp; Every part of the aircraft comes from the lowest bidder.&nbsp; Being sound people we can tell how crappy the audio system is.&nbsp; I wonder about the quality of the landing gear :evil:Seriously, the combination of crappy aircraft headsets and the rest of the signal chain as well as the acoustic environment of the aircraft makes for a lot of rattly, boxy crappy audio.&nbsp; Hollywood movies are the worst as they have a really annoying hyped low end in the first place.&nbsp; Stuff like sitcoms and news casts are usually a lot better.&nbsp; I have said for a long time that the movie companies should remaster the movie audio for planes.&nbsp; The films are re-edited to make them family rated and fit into the 2-hour cycle of international flights anyways, so why not?PS:&nbsp; You can buy the adaptors at certain airports and my last IEM earpieces even had them included <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />PPS:&nbsp; When I was a kid my dad told me about flying to the US and having the audio transmitted to the earsets via just hoses/tubes.&nbsp; No wires, no electrics, no stereo, no channel selection, no volume control.&nbsp; Just a big speaker in a box somewhere in the back of the plane with plastic tubes going out of it.&nbsp; Squeeze the tube and your earpiece goes quiet!&nbsp; I&#039;d love to try out one of those systems to see check how it sounded.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kristianjohnsen, post: 40800, member: 441"] Re: Aircraft sound systems Here's a mental experiment you might not like: Every part of the aircraft comes from the lowest bidder. Being sound people we can tell how crappy the audio system is. I wonder about the quality of the landing gear :evil: Seriously, the combination of crappy aircraft headsets and the rest of the signal chain as well as the acoustic environment of the aircraft makes for a lot of rattly, boxy crappy audio. Hollywood movies are the worst as they have a really annoying hyped low end in the first place. Stuff like sitcoms and news casts are usually a lot better. I have said for a long time that the movie companies should remaster the movie audio for planes. The films are re-edited to make them family rated and fit into the 2-hour cycle of international flights anyways, so why not? PS: You can buy the adaptors at certain airports and my last IEM earpieces even had them included :D PPS: When I was a kid my dad told me about flying to the US and having the audio transmitted to the earsets via just hoses/tubes. No wires, no electrics, no stereo, no channel selection, no volume control. Just a big speaker in a box somewhere in the back of the plane with plastic tubes going out of it. Squeeze the tube and your earpiece goes quiet! I'd love to try out one of those systems to see check how it sounded. [/QUOTE]

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