Im seriously not impressed, honestly

[Ryoko]

Due to the sudden death of my old gaming headset, I have a new Insignia bluetooth wireless headset that cost about $70. This thing was incredible for about.... an hour.

It installs two bluetooth devices.

Bluetooth Stereo Audio
Bluetooth Hands-Free Audio

The top one is your stereo speakers.
The second one is your two way headset for talking, phone etc.

Well come to find out, you cannot use both devices at the same time. For example, I can be running Warcraft and media player, and ventrillo "listening" with the Bluetooth Stereo Audio and it sounds excellent. Even though it doesnt use your expensive sound card, it sounds damn good.

Then, the minute you try to enable the microphone (Bluetooth Hands Free) by allowing outgoing voice in ventrillo, or even just running Sound Recorder from windows, it kills the Stereo Audio.

You can configure vent and Warcraft to use the Hands-Free Audio was well, but its a tin-can, crackly popping quality rather designed for just using with your cell phone, not stereo sound. Every footstep in game crackles. Its terrible.

Well what a POS. Its relatively useless now. Since I cant use the mic on it and the stereo audio at the same time, its honestly junk for its purpose. I have my old headset (which is literally, destroyed) plugged in just for the mic, and this headset for the audio (2 headsets, awesome). This issue really is the design of the headset I think, and not a problem with bluetooth itself.

Now, the real kicker with bluetooth. This headset is wireless, with a battery charger of course! So any time I turn the headset off, windows sound settings and devices all revert back to my sound card. Any time I turn on, connect, or want to use this headset, I have to go into the control panel and reconfigure the device. Then I have to reconfigure it in warcraft, and any other application im using them in.

Great, aint it?

So then I had an Idea.

I have a bluetooth keyboard and mouse at work (which I hate as well). The keyboard and mouse reconnect about every 30 minutes, so every 30 minutes nothing I type registers and the mouse doesnt move, and I have to wait for them to finish. Also, the keyboard juts in and out randomly, then seconds later all the keystrokes will "catch up" at once..... ANYWAY.

AS a plus, I never turn my computer at work off =) SO the headset should always stay configured ^_~ see im slick.

So I took this to work, and it configured in seconds (woot!) and now I have a cool headset at work, with play/pause, back/forward buttons and volume control. It also sounds great. My work computer, Ironically, automatically updated the sound configuration in the control panel to use the headset when I turn it on. How Farking nifty

Well, when your aggressively typing on the keyboard (Like now....) it makes the sound cut in and out. ARGH

Maybe since I hate how this KB behaves already, I'll replace THAT now too -.-

[cpinney]

thats why i go wired :\ tho i do need a new headset.

[.curve]

http://www.turtlebeach.com/products/efx1/home.aspx

I'd suggest those. Great quality for such a reasonable price of $60.

[[SD]bizzle]

Due to the sudden death of my old gaming headset

I found it kinda funny

-Kratos

[mike2007]

im impressed u got it to work; mine never did.

[Jstar1]

im glad you found a solution

[woutR]

wireless has always been crap because of batteries and that kind of shit.
But what I still don't get, wired or wireless, is why people get headphones that instead of going over their head go around the back of their head.
That's no comfort. All the weight of the headset goes on your ears. So then the headset becomes a small piece of shit to prevent discomfort. I want a big bad ass headset with big phones around my ears with shitloads of pimpfur.

What I like the best is a seperate microphone, headphones with big ears, so big, they go around my entire ears, and then a double headband. With a double headband the size of the phones doesn't go in clicks, cause else you might get stuck with some shit pair that doesn't have the exact 'click' you want.
But that's just me.

[satman83]

Always gone for wired, its restricting but less of a problem then wireless headsets.

[Jstar1]

im impressed u got it to work; mine never did.

wait didn't you get banned for botting

[mike2007]

nope, account was hacked