I want to get a high end bluetooth headset that will handle WoW and Discord seamlessly.
Bose and Plantronics have been my first glances on Amazon.
Any experiences and suggestions would be appreciated.
If you have a desktop and don’t need the portability, wired options are better imo. Anything labeled “gaming” will likely be bass heavy and sound pretty bad. Any headset will handle both just fine, as the mixing is done in windows and not the headset itself, unless you are using a hardware mixer of some kind, and if you are doing that you likely wouldn’t be here.
Your best bet is just to look up reviews with mic quality samples as that is the only thing that can really be compared without using the headset yourself. Everyones ears and head shapes are different.
Pick one in your price range that has good reviews and try it out. That’s about the best advice i can provide.
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Pro tip when looking for reviews for anything. Just Google “< product name > reddit” and you’ll find reviews and experiences from REAL people. Not the torrent of bot accounts you’ll find in Amazon reviews
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I use the Steel series arctic pro wireless and they are amazing, the change on the fly battery is so useful as I am never wired. Sound and comfort blow my old astro A40s away and the sound is comparable with my Bose QC35s
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I’m using the Corsair headset currently and it’s never given me any problems
A cheap logitech should do the trick. I think walmart sells them for around 20bucks
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I’ve used basic Logitech headsets for the last 15 years and have NEVER had an issue with them.
Turtle Beach and those name brands are like Beats by Dre. Exact same quality for 2000% markup.
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The bose quietcomfort is great I’ve had it for a few years
I bought my Logitech G933 Artemis Spectrum almost 4 years ago for $350. You can get one now for $150 and it is the best headset I’ve ever owned. It’s a headset with an attached mic. It’s extremely comfortable to wear and the mic and earphone quality is top notch.
If you spend more than $20 bucks on a headset than you simply don’t understand audio components
Sure, if you feel like replacing it every 3 months.
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I’m pretty satisfied with Razer Kraken v2.
It’s kinda spendy, and I got it on sale for $80, but it has been so much better than any of the $40-$60 headsets I had been buying.
I’ve never had an issue with any Razer item, and I suggest them for just about anybody who can afford it.
I was in yer boat recently. Went to a lot of stores to try on different wireless headsets. I ended up using the Jabra 85H. I tried the Corsair Virtuoso but the ear cups killed my ears after a couple hours. I am really happy with the Jabra 85H.
last time I checked, current best wireless are Steelseries Arctis Pro wireless and the new corsairs
Did tons of research and settled for the Arctis Pro wireless. If your computer has optical out, there is nothing that beats it in the $250 price range.
Same, HS70 Model. I like it. under 100 bucks - wireless
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i have a very large head and really like the lucidsound ls31. before that i had the hyperx cloud which had terrible sound quality by comparison and i had to really bend it to make it fit my head.
Just buy Kingston HyperX Cloud Flight headset, problem solved.
I have an old G633. Probably wouldn’t buy it again because I never needed nor used all the fancy buttons, but at the time it was marked down 50$, 1/3 of its total. Didn’t argue with that.
If you’re going to do bluetooth, audio quality is going to go to crap
So how nice it is doesn’t really matter, …Same concept with the ear pods. They all suck from an audio quality perspective. Much more about comfort than anything when talking about bluetooth head sets IMO
Bluetooth cannot support the bit rates required to make things sound good, although your own audio output shouldn’t be too bad. What you get in your ears will be terrible relative to what you would get with a wire.
Optimum solution from a sound quality perspective is buying headphones and a mic separately. Buy nice sennheiser headphones or something, and supplement that with a ~40 dollar mic you can clip to your shirt or buy a stand and put on your desk.
If you really need the bluetooth, buy something cheap that is comfortable. Then spend the rest of the budget on a piar of nice head phones for music/tv/movies etc. If it’s not wired the sound quality is going to be vastly reduced. Even those wifi sound bars are crap you want to cut out as much digital stuff as you can for audio (maybe there are some high end exceptions to this, but at the budget normal people use, analog alawys better, same way optical inputs sound better than HDMI on modern receivers*)
Be warned tho, having nice headphones will ruin audio quality for you on everything else. Your laptop and phone speakers aren’t going to cut it anymore. Probably not your car stereo either
Logitech X is kinda the standard if you’re willing to spend around $100. You can get a perfectly good one for around $30 though on Amazon.