Headsets are used in variety of applications to facilitate one- or two-way
audio communications between users and/or devices. The present inventor
recognized that conventional headsets lack means for successfully
integrating more than one audio source, despite their use in proximity to
multiple sources of audio signals, such as cell phones, laptops, aircraft
radios, and so forth. Accordingly, the present inventors devised one or
more devices, circuits, and methods related to connection of at least two
audio input signals to a headset. For example, in one embodiment, an
active-noise-reduction (ANR) headset includes at least one auxiliary port
for connection to an output of at least one device, such as a personal
communications, computing, and/or entertainment device. This exemplary
headset also includes a primary port for connection to a two-radio or
public-address system and circuitry for automatically suppressing or
muting the volume of an auxiliary input signal relative to that of a
primary input signal.