Koss SB45 Multi-Media Headset (156043)

by Koss

Product Details

• Item Weight: 10.6 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000EA1N98
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 14, 2006

Product Description

Over-the-head

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

45 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Extremely comfortable, excellent sound, superb mic, light yet solidly built, November 28, 2006

By 

Lloyd "Developer & network builder" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Koss SB45 Multi-Media Headset (156043) (Electronics)

I'm a game developer and audio tech. I appreciate a headset with high-quality sound reproduction (especially bass!) and a sensitive noise-canceling electret condenser mic. It's confortable, durable, and even has a "no questions asked" lifetime warranty. It's THAT good.

This headset is extremely comfortable even after 6 hrs of solid usage; and the wide, heavily-padded headband equally accomodates my size 9 head down to my 2-yr old's head. The full-enclosure pads even filter-out ambient noise better than most passive noise-cancellation headphones...t'was a real treat! (Note that the pads ENCLOSE your year; they don't rest ON your ear!) The mic is extremely sensitive and is perfectly clear whether you have a bass or soprano voice. The side-boom mic is metal wrapped in soft rubber, allowing it to be bent into any position you want while providing a high degree of flexibility which is very handy if you tend to bump your mic around like I do; it also rotates up and entirely out of the way. It's got a thin 8' cord (mine's actually 9') with separate gold-plated mini plugs, both stereo. Oh, and did I mention that this headset folds up for convenient storage? Nice. Very nice.

Ok, so much for the physical features...

I own a half-dozen headsets and over a dozen headphones; most are made by Koss. (Take a gander at Koss' heritage some time...you'll be surprised!) This Koss SB45 headset has superb audio reproduction (18-20,000 Hz) and mic pickup (100-16,000Hz); for movies, music, games, and VoIP, this headset can't be beat. If you use Ventrilo or TeamSpeak a lot like I do, you'll especially appreciate the mic's abilities.

Note that this headset filters-out nearly all ambient sound. So if you want a headset that doesn't restrict room noise (TV, telephone, doorbell, people talking, etc), get something more like a Koss R70B that passes through more sound. If you want uninterrupted audio, then the SB45 is superb.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Product, April 20, 2008

By 

M. Hayes (CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Koss SB45 Multi-Media Headset (156043) (Electronics)

Great headphones at a good price. We use them with our Kawaii Digital Piano's. Seller shipped item quickly. They work excellent.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a pleasant surprise, January 1, 2010

By 

JAMES JOHNSON (Tacoma, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Koss SB45 Multi-Media Headset (156043) (Electronics)

The sound quality of this headset is very good, the microphone works very well, and I find it comfortable enough to wear for hours. This is probably the fifth headset I've purchased and the only one that I've been satisfied with. For the price, you really can't go wrong.