Clarity Aloft Users

ozziecat35

ozziecat35

4 out of 5 great lakes prefer Michigan.
Wondering if anyone has a good source for replacement tips for your CA? I'm down to one pair left, and need to restock. $25 for 12 tips...I have to assume there's a better place to find them. Amazon isn't clear that the ones I found are the same ones that work. The mfr website (Comply) has them for a worse price then CA surprisingly enough.

Thanks.
 
I use the clarity aloft headset and this is what I did a few years ago to "stick it to the man" overpriced ear plugs sold by Clarity and everyone else selling these "special" earbuds.

Buy yourself a box of classic foam ear plugs. Hold the ends between your thumb and forefinger and squeeze the ends together. Take a hand held paper punch and punch a hole through the earplug (end to end). Take the little plastic piece out of a clarity earplug and screw that plastic piece back on the headset as if you were installing the whole ear plug from clarity. Now take your new ear plug that you made the hole in and place clarity's plastic ear piece into it. It will expand to hold tight. You could probably get a couple hundred pair of foam ear plugs for $20 or so. Cheap and very effective!
 
Ok so, fill me in...What exactly about the tips makes them so the need to be replaced as opposed to just cleaned? Can't you just soak them every couple of months?
 
One guy I flew with would take regular foam earplugs, freeze them solid, and drill a hole through them. When they thawed out, GTG!
 
Simply throw a dirty pair in a shirt pocket (or small mesh bag) in the wash and voila! Clean! That way I get some extra mileage out of my plugs and only need to buy the original ones once every year almost. Drilling / freezing / having a headset that only does part of it job? Nah. My time is worth more than $25-50 a year.

And now I'll only have to use the right side so the useful life will get stretched out extra long. Bonus.
 
When I was a broke CFI, I would sting the plug on some fishing line or something similar and hand wash with dish soap, worked pretty well.
 
killbilly said:
No data on this. The tips from QT actually work best on the Halos.
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Really? My cheap ass has a push pin and paper clip kit for modifying foam ear plugs. Works great and I'm constantly trying new brands.
I'd like to find a brand that is exactly the same color as ear wax, might be less awkward when we switch seats and the other guy swaps the headsets!
(Or maybe add some q-tips to my kit)
 
poser765 said:
Ok so, fill me in...What exactly about the tips makes them so the need to be replaced as opposed to just cleaned? Can't you just soak them every couple of months?
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The foam tips get worn out and lose their rigidity.
Another JC'er pointed me to this site for buds for my Halos. http://www.earplugstore.com/westone-star-tips-pair.html ; they work well. I personally am a fan of my wife's Army issued buds.

I've never owned nor looked at CA headsets, so their ear bud attachment might be different.
 
Erik10 said:
The foam tips get worn out and lose their rigidity.
Another JC'er pointed me to this site for buds for my Halos. http://www.earplugstore.com/westone-star-tips-pair.html ; they work well. I personally am a fan of my wife's Army issued buds.

I've never owned nor looked at CA headsets, so their ear bud attachment might be different.
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@bucksmith

Actually, I did buy a variety of tips from the above-linked store - they have a nice selection.

The tips they sell work better on a CA than they do on a QT - the bore on them fits the stubs on the QT, but they need to fit a little more snugly - it's easy for them to work loose or fall off. I like the tips from QT so far because they fit snugly on the ends of the tubes.

I'm likely investing in a Bose anyway just to have a second quality headset.
 
Erik10 said:
The foam tips get worn out and lose their rigidity.
Another JC'er pointed me to this site for buds for my Halos. http://www.earplugstore.com/westone-star-tips-pair.html ; they work well. I personally am a fan of my wife's Army issued buds.

I've never owned nor looked at CA headsets, so their ear bud attachment might be different.
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Ah, gotcha. Thanks. Been trying to sell me (mostly sold) and the wife (not even close) on getting a pair of clarity alofts.
 
poser765 said:
Ah, gotcha. Thanks. Been trying to sell me (mostly sold) and the wife (not even close) on getting a pair of clarity alofts.
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Do you need something TSO'd?

If not, you might look at the QT Halo. It's cheaper.
 
Ready to stop buying tips for the life of your CA? Behold:

https://www.amazon.com/Triple-flang...UTF8&qid=1473210067&sr=1-12&keywords=etymotic

I've had the same pack of these since 2012. Quieter than foam, never wears out, rinse them off during your overnight if you have yuck on them, and never buy another set of tips ever again.

The *only* con is that they're not porous like foam is, so they tend to suck in to your ear just a little bit during pressurization changes, which just requires you to take them out and back in one time during the descent. Recently, I've found that if I don't put them in too far before takeoff, I don't need to pop them out and they don't get stuck in there during the descent.
 
For the lengths summa y'all go to to deal with those in ear headsets I can only conclude one of two things: either the rest of the experience is orgasmic, or y'all are crazy.
 
Roger Roger said:
For the lengths summa y'all go to to deal with those in ear headsets I can only conclude one of two things: either the rest of the experience is orgasmic, or y'all are crazy.
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For me it's sunglasses and hat freedom. I wouldn't say it's orgasmic, but noise penetration from sunglasses sets my ocd off something fierce. Even now, when I wouldn't be wearing ear cup headsets anyway, it's really nice to have the silence when phili stuffs me down to 190 150 miles out and the wind noise is screaming!
 
jboynm said:
Ready to stop buying tips for the life of your CA? Behold:

https://www.amazon.com/Triple-flang...UTF8&qid=1473210067&sr=1-12&keywords=etymotic

I've had the same pack of these since 2012. Quieter than foam, never wears out, rinse them off during your overnight if you have yuck on them, and never buy another set of tips ever again.

The *only* con is that they're not porous like foam is, so they tend to suck in to your ear just a little bit during pressurization changes, which just requires you to take them out and back in one time during the descent. Recently, I've found that if I don't put them in too far before takeoff, I don't need to pop them out and they don't get stuck in there during the descent.
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I wore something similar to that when I was in the army and it drove me absolutely bat-poo crazy.
 
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