I had my first opportunity to BH in a wing last weekend, and my 3 wing-mates were using the in-game voice comms. IMO, it sounded fine. They were easy to understand, and there was no choppiness in the transmission. With the little voice chat icon next to their name on their wing icon becoming animated when they spoke, it was easy to tell who was talking at the time. I think we were all in the USA, so that probably helped with the quality of the speach. I setup my mic the next day (pretty simple, just hadn't gotten around to it earlier) and tested with a commander last Sunday. He was about 1/2 way across the planet from me (Earth.... not in game
) and while the quality was still good, there was some 'cutting out'... similar to a cell phone call. Considering our physical distance, it was pretty solid.
I haven't used teamspeak with Elite, but used to use it with other sims. TS audio quality is better than Elite in-game, but the in game comms, IMO is pretty darn easy to setup and use and I'm fine with the quality of the transmission. I have the Mobius TS server info on my TS install so that I can use it if needed, but I'm probably going to stick with the in-game voice comms whenever possible, just for the simplicity of it.
BTW, when you setup the in-game mic hotkey, you select 'push to mute' or 'toggle to mute'. I wish they made it 'push to talk'. It seems like I read somewhere recently that they were considering making that change in an upcoming patch.
Comd TUZO .... sorry I wasn't able to help you test wings and comms last weekend. I had just gotten into a wing before you contacted me, and I didn't know how to switch my comms from the wing to you so that I could text you back. My apologies, commander.