Tue Jan 08, 2019 12:02 pm
Everyone so far has interpreted your question of "worth anything" as having dollar signs attached, so I'll take the direction, are they worth having, as in "are they usable".
The early Bose headsets were more fragile than the newer ones--electronics being what they are, I wouldn't invest in an old Bose myself. If they work, they work well, but I wouldn't count on them to continue working. Bose will not repair any of the early versions.
Earlier David Clarks, however, are very robust. They're not ANR, of course, but they're solid. The 10-30 is the next version of the original 10-40--and I still have my 10-40, purchased new in 1978. The 10-13.4 is lighter, and came out a few years after the 10-30. Both are still being made, and both are top notch passive headsets. Both can be made much more comfortable with Oregon Aero comfort items, and the Oregon Aero "hushkit" can make them almost equal to ANR in listening capability. "Almost", but not quite, so a great upgrade is a Headsets Inc. ANR conversion, which I have done to one of my 10-13.4 headsets. DC will still repair any of their passive sets, not so sure about some of their earlier "experiments" into ANR. Their newer ANR sets (One-X and Pro-X) are outstanding headsets, and they service them well.
I'd hesitate to call the Flightcom a DC clone--looks a lot like it, but it's nowhere near the quality, and not nearly as solid. Personal experience has been that for occasional use, it's not a bad headset, but frequent use and it will fail, becoming scratchy and hard to hear, and the mic will become problematic, or likely the headset will just come apart. I bought a couple of them, one a child-size, for backseat use, and they're still in good shape, but I don't think they've been used more than a dozen times total in the last half dozen years. I've never heard of anyone attempting to get one fixed--they're essentially a throw away item.
Cary