Our decide
With a battery that lasts for days, nice microphone high quality, and huge, comfortably padded earcups, this wi-fi headset has all of the options we search for.
The Poly Voyager Focus 2 gives wonderful name high quality. Our panelists mentioned they “heard each phrase” of our audio-sample recordings, they usually appreciated 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 increase mic or eradicating the headset can mute or reply incoming calls.
Plus, the mix of a versatile headband and huge, padded earcups that swivel 180 levels make carrying the Voyager Focus 2 for lengthy intervals of time extra comfy as compared with our wi-fi improve decide, the Jabra Evolve2 65 Flex, whose earcups swivel solely 90 levels.
In our assessments 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 fluctuate relying on the format of your house or workplace, however a restricted headset vary might be irritating once you’ve misplaced your telephone proper earlier than an essential name. Nonetheless, 40 toes gives you loads of house to tempo round an workplace.
This headset’s app additionally gives a find-my-device characteristic that runs on the Tile community, however this characteristic doesn’t work should you don’t hold the headset paired to your telephone day by day.
Improve decide
This headset has the very best mic we’ve present in a wi-fi mannequin and a collapsible design that makes it simple to hold. However it’s twice as costly as our high decide, and its battery life is shorter.
The Jabra Evolve2 65 Flex is simple to attach wirelessly to a pc or telephone, and it gives the very best vary of the headsets we advocate. 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 popular 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 tender 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 mentioned, with its lively noise cancellation turned on, this headset creates a noticeable eardrum-suck sensation, which some folks 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 as compared with our different picks. However it wants recharging extra typically than our high decide does.
Our decide
If you happen to’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 much like that of our wi-fi picks—for lower than half the worth.
Of all of the wired headsets we’ve examined, the Jabra Evolve2 30 gives the very 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 assessments of suppressing background noise whereas nonetheless capturing clear, heat vocals.
On the draw back, the controls on the best earcup are considerably small, but it surely’s not exhausting to get used to them.
Improve decide
That is the best-sounding wired headset we’ve examined, with giant, comfy earpads.
The vocal recordings we made with the Jabra Evolve2 50 had been the very 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 reducing or elevating the mic increase.
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.
If you happen to favor the old-school look or need the portability of a tiny Bluetooth headset, go along with the Poly Voyager 5200 UC. In our assessments 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 trade for that superior voice isolation, nevertheless, the Voyager 5200 UC sacrifices pure vocal heat and smoothness. We sounded extra robotic with this headset as compared with half of the opposite headsets we examined.
Nonetheless, the Voyager 5200 UC has a good 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.