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Yes, I've had these David Clark H10-36's adapted for my IC-7200 for a long while. Like aa777888-2 mentioned above, they will mash your head after a while and give you a headache. But, if you're in a high-noise environment, they work great.
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This is a little bit of thread drift, however, in the spirit of general headset interest: I fly helicopters with the doors off, and it doesn't get much noisier than that. I have, just like pretty much any other pilot out there, the usual bread and butter, meat and potatoes, David Clark headset. They are rugged, reliable, and reasonably quiet. At the same time, they are like wearing friggin' Vice Grips on your head.
I thought about blowing big bucks on the usual lightweight solution, which would be a set of Bose or Lightspeed active noise reduction headsets. But they can still be quite sweaty in the summer, and if the batteries STB then you have no noise protection at all. So instead I decided to go the "communications ear plug" route (or "CEP"--that's what it's called in the pilot world). Pictured below is my Clarity Aloft headset. It normally uses a set of
Comply foam eartips. The Comply eartips are a million times better than the regular foamy ones, but they are still a pain to put in, and impossible to use in the winter when they are frozen solid. So I had a local hearing aid place make me a set of custom
Starkey earmolds. I had to send the entire headset in so that they could mold the backside as well. Now the headset is arguably quieter than a Bose, uses no batteries, is a dream to wear, and I can put them on and take them off much more easily and in any weather or temperature.