Bose Launches A30 Aviation Headset

美国最大的扬声器厂家Bose推出A30航空耳机

Bose has introduced its latest aviation headset, the A30. It will take the place of the current headset, the A20, in Bose’s legendary one-model lineup of full-coverage aviation headsets, representing the fourth product in the company’s evolutionary march of headset preeminence. It’s fair to expect the A30 to slide right into the market leadership position that until today was occupied by the A20. After using the A30 for the past couple of weeks, I have nothing but good things to say about it, too, though it won’t be what you expect.

Bose推出了其最新的航空耳机A30。它将取代现有的A20耳机，成为Bose传奇的全覆盖航空耳机单型号系列，标志着该公司耳机领先地位的进化历程中推出的第四款产品。可以公平地预期A30将顺利进入市场领导地位，直到今天该位置都是由A20占据。在过去几周使用A30之后，不管它是否符合你们的期待，但我是赞不绝口的。

The A30 launch was a hard secret to keep. It wasn’t the first new product announcement the company has made in 13 years, and even before I got the inside scoop from Bose, I’d predicted that we’d see a successor to the A20 at Sun ’n Fun. (It was an impressive prediction; just don’t ask to see my March Madness debacle of a bracket.)

A30的发布是一个很难保守的秘密。这不是该公司13年来发布的第一个新产品，甚至在我从Bose那里得到内幕消息之前，我就预测我们会在Sun’n Fun看到A20的继任者。(这是一个令人印象深刻的预测;只是别再要求看我三月对支架的疯狂崩溃了。)

It seems that the A20 was around forever, and 13 years is a good stretch in an aviation marketplace where new headsets appeared from Bose’s competitors far more frequently. The extended reign of the A20 made sense, though. When it hit the airways in 2010, it immediately displaced the company’s Aviation Headset X as the headset to have in your flight bag. Rightly so. The A20 was a far better headset than the X in just about every way. It was more comfortable, had better passive and active noise reduction, and added features like Bluetooth wireless connectivity. If you were flying with Bose Aviation Headset X’s, you just had to get the A20s. And while Bose improved the A20 incrementally over that time, the bones of the product were great from the get-go. I have worn the A20 for around 1,000 hours in loud single-engine airplanes. It’s a great product.

A20似乎永远存在，在航空市场上，13年是一段很长的时间，因为Bose的竞争对手的新耳机出现得更频繁。不过，A20的长期统治是有道理的。当它在2010年上市时，它立即取代了该公司的航空耳机X，成为你飞行包里的耳机。确实如此。A20耳机在各个方面都比X好得多。它更舒适，有更好的被动和主动降噪功能，还增加了蓝牙无线连接等功能。如果你乘坐的是Bose航空耳机X，你只需要买a20就可以了。虽然Bose在这段时间里逐步改进了A20，但产品的骨架从一开始就很棒。我在嘈杂的单引擎飞机上戴着A20大约1000个小时。这是一个很棒的产品。

I know that one big criticism we’ll hear early and often on the A30 is that it’s just a warmed-over A20, and I get it. It looks very similar, it does the same kinds of things, there are no fancy features, just the usual ones, beautifully implemented as they are on the A20. So, should you replace your A20s with A30s? I don’t think anyone needs to. But believe me, people will want to. And once they slide one on, they’ll really want to.

我知道关于A30我们经常听到的一个批评是，它只是在炒A20的冷饭，我明白。两款耳机看起来非常相似，功能也都一样，没有花哨的功能，只有常见的功能，像A20一样很好地达成了使命。那么，你应该把你的a20型换成a30型吗?我觉得没必要。但相信我，有人会想要的。一旦他们戴上了，他们就会非常想戴。

Features

产品特点

What is the killer feature on the A30? Nothing. But at the same time, everything. And Bose knew it would be a challenge to update the A20, and to its everlasting credit, it didn’t try to make a whole new headset but, wisely, a whole better headset.

A30的绝杀功能是什么？好像并没有。因为所有功能都做到了极致。Bose知道更新A20将是一大难关，值得称赞的是，它没有试图制造一款全新的耳机，而是明智地选择制造一款更好的升级款耳机。

This they did not by focusing on one feature but on all of them, seriously. When you look at the A30, even when you put your hands on one, you’ll wonder how it’s different from the A20 at all. The answer is, it’s different in just about every conceivable way. And better, too.

他们不是专注于一个功能，而是专注于所有功能。当你看到A30时，甚至当你把A30拿在手里，你就会想知道它与A20有什么不同。答案是，在你能想象到的任何方面，它们都是不同的，而且A30还比上一代更好。

That said, some of the improvements are specific to certain needs that not everyone will have. The top feature, though—improved comfort over an already supremely comfortable headset—will be one that just about every pilot will love. This they accomplished while still keeping the A30 very slightly lighter than the A20. At the same time, they somehow managed to make it feel, well, not heavier, but more secure. One of the most important tests of any aviation headset is comfort, and for those of us who have been flying small planes for a while have had the unpleasant pain of wearing early-tech noise cancelling headsets on a long day’s flight. The A20s are the most comfortable headset I’ve ever worn for multiple-leg cross countries, and so far, the A30 feels even better. Beta testers tell Bose that they are having the same early impression.

也就是说，有些改进是针对某些特定需求的，而不是每个功能都有升级。最主要的特点是，该耳机在本就已经非常舒适的基础上又提高了舒适度，这将是几乎每个飞行员都会喜欢的。他们在保持A30比A20稍轻的情况下做到了这一点。与此同时，他们设法让耳机感觉不重，但更安全。任何航空耳机最重要的测试之一就是舒适性，对于我们这些曾经驾驶过一段时间小型飞机的人来说，在漫长的一天飞行中戴上早期科技降噪耳机，是很痛苦的。A20是我戴过的最舒适的跨国多航段耳机，到目前为止，A30的感觉更好。Beta测试者告诉Bose，他们早期印象一样。

Noise-wise, the A30 is different, and in ways that might or might not benefit you directly. There are three levels of noise cancelling in the new digital chipset that Bose uses—low, medium and high—though pilots of small, single-engine planes will most likely keep it parked on the high setting, which is even more effective than its impressive predecessor at blocking unwanted audio intrusions through the magic of active noise reduction. Unlike the A20, for which Bose’s senior product manager Matt Ruwe used analog circuitry, the A30 is a digital headset, which allowed Bose to target noise more specifically than the A20 can.

在噪音方面，A30和上一代是不一样的，而且在某些方面可能会或可能不会直接让你受益。在Bose使用的新型数字芯片组中，有三个降噪级别——低、中、高，尽管小型单引擎飞机的飞行员很可能会将其设置在高级降噪，这甚至比其表现惊艳的上一代更有效，可以通过主动降噪的神奇科技来阻止不必要的音频乱入。与使用模拟电路的A20不同，A30是一款数字耳机，这使得Bose能够比A20更具体地针对噪声。

The A30’s mic is totally different than the A20’s, and it, too, is an improvement, with better intelligibility and ease of use. Despite the move to a digital design, the A30 keeps the warmth of the sound of the A20, which also helps with fatigue. Another quality-of-life improvement is the new cord, which is better, lighter, more flexible and less noticeable.

A30的麦克风与A20的完全不同，它也是一种改进，具有更好的清晰度还易于使用。A30虽然采用了数字设计，但仍然保留了A20的温暖声音，这也有助于缓解疲劳。另一个外观品质的改进是做了新的耳机线，它更好、更轻、更灵活、更不引人注目。

Other features that you might or might not use are tool-less interchangeable cord attachment, so you can mount it on the side closest to the jack, and a tap-to-talk feature that lets you make the noise cancelling transparent for easier conversations inside or outside of the cockpit.

有一些你可能会用到，也可能不会用到的别的功能，比如无需工具的可互换电源线附件，这样你就可以把它安装在最靠近插孔的一侧，还有一个轻敲通话功能，能让你随时关闭降噪功能，以便在驾驶舱内外更方便地交谈。

The bottom line is, the $1,295 Bose A30 aviation headset is a step up in comfort, utility and features, and while it lacks the bells and whistles of some of its competitors’ premium headsets, it is everything, at least in our book, that a headset should be and nothing that it shouldn’t. The A30 is available now from your favorite pilot supply outlet.

最重要的是，售价1295美元的Bose A30航空耳机在舒适度、实用性和功能上都有所提升，虽然它没有像一些竞争对手的高端耳机那样的花哨功能，但至少在我们的书中，它拥有耳机应该有的一切，没有不应该的东西。A30现在可以从您最喜欢的试点供应网点购买。