Our decide
With a battery that lasts for days, nice microphone high quality, and enormous, comfortably padded earcups, this wi-fi headset has all of the options we search for.
The Poly Voyager Focus 2 gives glorious name high quality. Our panelists stated they “heard each phrase” of our audio-sample recordings, they usually preferred the nice and cozy and pure tones the mic produced.
Rated to final 25 hours of name time or 40 hours of listening time earlier than needing to be recharged, the Voyager Focus 2’s battery will simply final a number of working days. Its built-in sensors make it enjoyable to make use of, too. Folding and unfolding the growth mic or eradicating the headset can mute or reply incoming calls.
Plus, the mixture of a versatile headband and enormous, padded earcups that swivel 180 levels make sporting the Voyager Focus 2 for lengthy durations of time extra comfy compared with our wi-fi improve decide, the Jabra Evolve2 65 Flex, whose earcups swivel solely 90 levels.
In our checks with this headset, we might get solely about 40 toes away from our telephone earlier than the connection broke up—a couple of quarter of the marketed 164 toes, and half of what we might do with the Jabra Evolve2 65 Flex. Your mileage will range relying on the structure of your own home or workplace, however a restricted headset vary might be irritating while you’ve misplaced your telephone proper earlier than an necessary name. Nonetheless, 40 toes gives you loads of house to tempo round an workplace.
This headset’s app additionally gives a find-my-device function that runs on the Tile community, however this function doesn’t work in the event you don’t preserve the headset paired to your telephone on daily basis.
Improve decide
This headset has one of the best mic we’ve present in a wi-fi mannequin and a collapsible design that makes it straightforward to hold. However it’s twice as costly as our high decide, and its battery life is shorter.
The Jabra Evolve2 65 Flex is straightforward to attach wirelessly to a pc or telephone, and it gives one of the best vary of the headsets we suggest. It ought to make you sound nice, too: It makes use of six microphones to supply higher vocal readability than what you may get from a lot of the fashions we examined.
Testers described the general sound as clear and loud. However some most well-liked our high decide, the Poly Voyager Focus 2, which provided a greater steadiness between vocal readability and background noise discount than the Evolve2 65 Flex.
This mannequin’s memory-foam ear cushions create a delicate seal across the ears that with the press of a button can passively or actively block background noise; the cushions additionally make the headset nice to put on for hours-long stints. That stated, with its lively noise cancellation turned on, this headset creates a noticeable eardrum-suck sensation, which some individuals might discover uncomfortable.
The Evolve2 65 Flex additionally has foldable earcups and collapses to half its dimension, making it simpler to stash right into a bag compared with our different picks. However it wants recharging extra usually than our high decide does.
Our decide
In case you’re at a pc all day and don’t want to make use of a headset along with your telephone, this wired headset gives mic high quality just like that of our wi-fi picks—for lower than half the value.
Of all of the wired headsets we’ve examined, the Jabra Evolve2 30 gives one of the best mixture of nice audio high quality—each enter and output—and light-weight consolation. In contrast with inexpensive choices, it did a greater job in our checks of suppressing background noise whereas nonetheless capturing clear, heat vocals.
On the draw back, the controls on the proper earcup are considerably small, however it’s not exhausting to get used to them.
Improve decide
That is the best-sounding wired headset we’ve examined, with massive, comfy earpads.
The vocal recordings we made with the Jabra Evolve2 50 had been one of the best of the bunch: clear and natural-sounding, even with loud background noise.
Its headband padding is thicker than that of our wired headset decide, the Jabra Evolve2 30. The froth earpads are bigger, too; they make the Evolve2 50 a bit heavier than the Evolve2 30, but they’re nonetheless comfy. Along with utilizing the on-ear buttons to manage quantity, play music, and reply calls, you’ll be able to mute or unmute the headset by decreasing or elevating the mic growth.
Though the Evolve2 50 prices a bit greater than our different wired-headset decide, at this writing it’s nonetheless round $140 cheaper than the best-sounding wi-fi headset.
Our decide
This headset captures voices clearly whereas suppressing background noise. It’s light-weight and comes with a versatile earhook that makes it extra comfy to put on than cumbersome, conventional Bluetooth headsets.
In case you favor the old-school look or need the portability of a tiny Bluetooth headset, go along with the Poly Voyager 5200 UC. In our checks with virtually deafening coffee-shop chatter within the background, the Voyager 5200 UC made us sound as if we had been calling from a sound sales space.
In alternate for that superior voice isolation, nevertheless, the Voyager 5200 UC sacrifices pure vocal heat and smoothness. We sounded extra robotic with this headset compared with half of the opposite headsets we examined.
Nonetheless, the Voyager 5200 UC has an honest seven-hour battery life, and we discovered that its versatile earhook made it extra comfy to put on than different Bluetooth headsets with skinny plastic wraps. It’s additionally the one Bluetooth mannequin we’ve examined that comes with a charging case. The case doubles as a stand so you’ll be able to shortly set it down between calls with out having to wrangle it again into its field.
