Intercom question- recommendations?

[trib]

Since each time I try to buy a good used intercom someone beats me to it, it looks like I'll have to go whole hog and buy a new one. The softcomm ATC-2PS seems to be a great deal at $189 from ACS. It is priced a good bit lower than other stereo intercoms and appears to be a complete package. Does anyone have any experience with this intercom? Any recommendations for a good intercom for an RV with music input for the passenger and pilot?

[Rocketboy]

Tried many and like the PM-1000, 2000, 3000 the best. YMMV

Bob

[yakdriver]

Sigtronics SPA-400SN. I have had Sigtronics in all of my airplanes for the last 25 years and they have all worked perfectly. Easy to install and great sound quality. Had them in T-6, Pitts, Christen Eagle, Acroduster, Nanchang, N3N, TBM and more. I have been in airplanes with other more expensive brands but always use Sigtronics. I have the 400SN in my RV7 and adjusted the volume and squelch once and haven't touched it in 40hrs. Don

[N941WR]

The Sigtronics 200S is in my panel and works great.

Don't underestimate how nice it is to have stereo input. After all, it is really great to be flying off your test time, listening to your MP3 player and have songs like "Running with the devil", "Highway to he||", etc. playing as you line up one final.

[RScott]

I tried several at Oshkosh last summer. My interest was stereo, mp3 input, input for AOA alarm as well as a good intercom. I think that only the PS 3000 did it all. Comparing the Sigtronics, Flightcom and the PS, the Sigtronics unit was the worst and the PS by far the best. The PS guys had a really good headset for their demonstration which probably made some difference.

[yakdriver]

They all sound great on the bench but the proof is in the air. The PS is aimed toward the GA market that doesn't generate near the noise an RV has in the cockpit. A friend had a PS installed in his T-6 because that was what the avionics guy insisted on. Was loud and clear and worked great until you went flying then it was terrible. We ended up putting a Sigtronics in it and it works great. Sigtronic's in house test airplane is a T-28 and you won't find a much noisier cockpit than that. The flying club I belonged to had PS intercoms in all their planes and although they worked well it seemed I always had to fiddle around with them adjusting the volume and squelch. My Sig in the 7 is stereo with MP3 plug and the Dynon and GPS inputs. Don

[groucho]

Originally Posted by yakdriver

The PS is aimed toward the GA market that doesn't generate near the noise an RV has in the cockpit.

A PS rep posted here that if you should use their high-noise models in RVs. I've been looking for several months for a new intercom. Based on others experiences (here and other places), I'm pretty much settled on the PS PM1000II to replace my Sigtronics SPA-400. That'll get me the nicely integrated music input that I want.

[Bob Axsom]

You got to be kidding me.

Bob Axsom

[rocketbob]

PS Engineering intercoms have trouble at low voltages, at least that's been my experience. If I landed at night, both lights on, strobes, etc. I'd get a lot of strobe noise in the intercom (PM-2000). The install manual even mentioned this "feature". I just took it out of my RV since I switched to the XCom, and the intercom seems to work fine. I would be interested in hearing how well the flighttech.com ENRI intercoms work.

Tunes are essential for fun acro. I probably break the mold a bit here in that I listen to hard rock or metal when doing loops and rolls...

[Geico266]

Originally Posted by rocketbob

I probably break the mold a bit here in that I listen to hard rock or metal when doing loops and rolls...

Rock on!