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Wireless Headset for VOIP With No 30-Minute Dalek Timebomb
A lot of my work is done remotely, with colleagues and customers. Five years ago I bought a Microsoft LifeChat LX-3000 which plugged into the USB port on my Mac. It did the job kinda fine, with two gripes:
- it wasn’t wireless. I like to wander whilst I chat, and I didn’t like being tethered. But this in itself wasn’t a reason to ditch it
- After c.30 minutes on a call, my voice would turn into a dalek. or rather, my voice wouldn’t but the audio that others heard was. This happened regardless of platform (Hangouts / Zoom / Skype / etc). I figured it must be a software or network issue. Never got to the bottom of it, until I switched to using a Snowball microphone for some proper voice recording - and any calls I happened to also make on it no longer had the Dalek problem.
So I switched, on a colleague’s recommendation, to the Logitech H600. I love it. The wireless works flawlessly, and no dalek effect. Gripes? Well there’s no pleasing some people. The audio quality is great for calls, but for music I switch back to my wireless Avantree Auditions. The Logitech headset also feels a bit plastic, which I don’t care about unless I’m back here in six months complaining that it’s broken….