Binaural microphones: headphone mounted or lapel?

[alexellislondon]

Hi, this is my first post here. I want to buy a binaural microphone for recording ambience and general purpose use.
I'm very impressed with the recordings over at notesfromspain.com which have been made with this $49.00 microphone:
SP-BMC-2
http://www.soundprofessionals.com/cgi-bin/gold/item/SP-BMC-2

SoundProfessionals make the same microphone but in a headphone mounting for $69.00 -- for my intended purposes this mounting would be far more convenient and a lot less conspicuous than two lapel mics with black furry socks over them ;-)
SP-HMC-1
http://www.soundprofessionals.com/cgi-bin/gold/item/SP-HMC-1

Do you think the pick-up of the headset version will be as good as the lapel version?
The headset has a foam covering, do you think this will be sufficient wind protection – is it going to be any worse than the covers for the lapel version?

I thank anyone who can provide me with some feedback on this.

Regards,

Alex Ellis

PS: You may say $69.00 isn’t a lot of money for binaural microphones, but there is an unfortunate $40.00 shipping charge!

[audiocollective]

I have those and they work well. I would recommend the ones in the headphones. You might want to check out them mics from giant squid. you can also chech out a lot of cool recordings at soundessing.audiocollective.net (http://soundessing.audiocollective.net)

[audiocollective]

i just ordered some of these http://www.soundprofessionals.com/cgi-bin/gold/item/SP-TFB-2 and i will let you know how they sound. They look like they will give me some sweet binaural action...

[Documentally]

I bought an even cheeper pair from ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7394341145&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWN%3AIT&rd=1

Very discreet and you can have them on your head or on your lapel.. :)