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I've been googling all day and can't seem to find a decent wireless headset. Does anyone have any suggestions?

I need something with reasonable sound quality and a mic. I'd like it to be Bluetooth if possible, but any wireless technology that will allow the headset and mic to work simultaneously will do.

I've read many people's nightmares with the Plantronics Pulsar 590(E/A) where the mic and stereo headset were mutually exclusive. If you use the mic, the headset is a downsampled mono signal.

I game a lot with our internet game group and we communicate with Teamspeak whilst playing.

Anyone?

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If you bought a Bluetooth USB adapter, you could use the wireless headsets that are used with cell phones on your computer. BUT, there aren't any good bluetooth devices out there, in my opinion. They don't last long on their batteries, and tend to break up quite a bit.

My girlfriend and I used to talk for free with Yah**! Mess with Voice and play online games against each other with our cell phone bluetooth USB adapters and headsets. We really hated the poor quality and resorted back to the wired headsets.

good luck

Reply to Orion63

DO NOT buy a Pulsar headset if you plan to use it with a PC. The mic sounds absolutely horrible. Basically what plantronics fails to tell you is that when using this headset with a PC you have two audio modes. "High Quality Bluetooth Audio", and "Bluetooth Audio" aka "crap mode". The microphone will not function in the high quality mode, so in order to use it you have to use the normal mode which sounds horrible.

I bought my headset last week and it is already on its way back to amazon.com. I did not test it out with a cell phone though so I cannot comment on how the performance is on that end, but as for using it for a PC headset with ventrillo it is total garbage.

Reply to filthandfowl

I messed around with trying to get a wireless mic setup a few months ago. I picked up a BlueTooth USB Adapater and bought two different ear pieces. One was the Fry's Cheapo-Deluxe special of the week. The second was supposidly one of the "higher priced / higher quality" wireless ear pieces out there.

I did 2 seperate tests for each ear piece and got the same results:
1. My friends didn't recognize me on Ventrillo
2. They said the quality was utter crap
3. They also mentioned they could hear a lot more ambient noise from my house than normal.

I was pretty stoked to be able to walk to and from my comp without having to disconnect but the quality was so piss poor, I ended up going back to my wired headset.

The ability to do it at a reasonable price is there. We're just waiting on the technology for something of worthy quality. Hopefully the cell phone market is driving this to a reality sometime soon :)

Reply to AshsRig

Thanks for the feedback people.

I did a pile of reading all over the splinternet and found that virtually everyone has complained about one or two issues, with the most prevalent one being that sound quality is great for music but as soon as you turn on the mic sound quality dives to mono.

So, until technology improves, I guess I'm sticking with wires :(

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