Thanks Nu. Haven't heard of the Ascend so appreciate the heads up. I really like the idea of not having a battery. Plus, I already have a nice set of Bose Q2s. I looked at a friend's who uses the UFlyMike and it looks nice, but the Bose is too large to uncover the inside ear. Looked uncomfortable for him during taxi ops and he just covered both ears during cruise......guess he got sick of my jokes

Soooooooooooo guess I'm still going for the 850s.......sometime

Ferd