Noise Cancelling is king - the review is lacking
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· Score: 1, Informative
There are much better bluetooth headset reviews out there.
One of the most major things about any headset is noise cancellation. If you only talk with your headset in quiet environments, then this review is a decent one.
If you ever talk in you car, this review is totally off in its conclusions.
I recently bought all of te headsets in this review, + 4 more, and took them home, took them for a drive in my car, and called my computer and recorded the sound incoming and subjectively rated the speaker.
This totaly turned the tables on the review.
I had the Jabra bt800 winning in quiet environments, but when I placed calls in noisy environments, the jabra bt800 ate itself: th same noise-cancelling software that was so good in quiet environments clips your outgoing voice in noisy areas so every second syllable disappears.
The winner in my test was one of the cheapest: the Plantronics voyager 510. It looks a bit wonky, but for intance in my car test, transmitted car noise when I first placed the call, then after I started to speak, the outgoing noise from the car disappeared throughout the rest of the recording, with just my clearly audible voice present.
The Jabra bt800 is unusable in a noisy environment for outgoing voice quality. You're much better off with a BT250 from jabra.
The sad thing is that companies like Shure or jabra don't make a bluetoth boom-mike solution (there's a guy on the web making these himself out of parts from a shure and a nextlink headset http://www.barjohn.com/Custom_AX2.htm ), because with a boom close to the mouth and another mic close to the ear you can do very good noise cancellation indeed.
Basically, don't trust any bluetooth headset reviews that don't test in a really noisy environment, and there are good reviews out there that have sound files you can play to hear for yourself.
Bottom line: this review's winner is a loser in my car.
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Go look in the Brittanica for an article on the new SPR Rifle spec from the military - find anything?
How about color management and a discussion on ProPhoto vs sRGB vs AdobeRGB color spaces? Anything there?
What about an entry in Brittanica explaining what slashdot is? Ummm. ..nope. But Wiki does: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot
If I want to know about history I can go to the source on the web and make up my own mind, and learn something in the process.
And another thing: Brittanica attempts to give a "definitive" answer, which means the inherent bias remains hidden - with Wiki you know that real people like you gave their opinion, and so there's transparency around the fact that "...history [is] a fable, agreed upon" - NapoleonB.
I tried to use Ubuntu at a large enterprise shop. Even after having to write the script to do VPN connections to our environment, which was not fun, and then trying to get the simian-connector setup to work with the Evolution 2.2 and 2.4 (which kept crashing), I was not sure that this was ready for prime time.
I think the enterprise IT dept has to be ready to enable things like pop or imap or other stuff in order that this.
I must admit that all of that was very fun and satisfying, and after years of Windows it was nice to be able to modify the mouse sensitivity via kernel mod and make my unique flavor of an OS.;-)
Big happy smile for that.
I would say that ubuntu is better than the other "professional" linux desktops though. almost perfect except for the VPN and the exchange access. . oh well. . .
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One of the most major things about any headset is noise cancellation. If you only talk with your headset in quiet environments, then this review is a decent one.
If you ever talk in you car, this review is totally off in its conclusions.
I recently bought all of te headsets in this review, + 4 more, and took them home, took them for a drive in my car, and called my computer and recorded the sound incoming and subjectively rated the speaker.
This totaly turned the tables on the review.
I had the Jabra bt800 winning in quiet environments, but when I placed calls in noisy environments, the jabra bt800 ate itself: th same noise-cancelling software that was so good in quiet environments clips your outgoing voice in noisy areas so every second syllable disappears.
The winner in my test was one of the cheapest: the Plantronics voyager 510. It looks a bit wonky, but for intance in my car test, transmitted car noise when I first placed the call, then after I started to speak, the outgoing noise from the car disappeared throughout the rest of the recording, with just my clearly audible voice present.
The Jabra bt800 is unusable in a noisy environment for outgoing voice quality. You're much better off with a BT250 from jabra.
The sad thing is that companies like Shure or jabra don't make a bluetoth boom-mike solution (there's a guy on the web making these himself out of parts from a shure and a nextlink headset http://www.barjohn.com/Custom_AX2.htm ), because with a boom close to the mouth and another mic close to the ear you can do very good noise cancellation indeed.
Basically, don't trust any bluetooth headset reviews that don't test in a really noisy environment, and there are good reviews out there that have sound files you can play to hear for yourself.
Bottom line: this review's winner is a loser in my car.
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your speakers are popping when you shut down your machine? Dumba$$ - unplug them. Any other questions?
If I want to know about history I can go to the source on the web and make up my own mind, and learn something in the process.
And another thing: Brittanica attempts to give a "definitive" answer, which means the inherent bias remains hidden - with Wiki you know that real people like you gave their opinion, and so there's transparency around the fact that "...history [is] a fable, agreed upon" - NapoleonB.
I tried to use Ubuntu at a large enterprise shop. Even after having to write the script to do VPN connections to our environment, which was not fun, and then trying to get the simian-connector setup to work with the Evolution 2.2 and 2.4 (which kept crashing), I was not sure that this was ready for prime time. I think the enterprise IT dept has to be ready to enable things like pop or imap or other stuff in order that this. I must admit that all of that was very fun and satisfying, and after years of Windows it was nice to be able to modify the mouse sensitivity via kernel mod and make my unique flavor of an OS. ;-)
Big happy smile for that.
I would say that ubuntu is better than the other "professional" linux desktops though. almost perfect except for the VPN and the exchange access. . oh well. . .