The mic works really well. Its noise cancelling feature is top notch, and when you set the echo canceller with the PS3, no one will hear anything but your voice.
What I don't like about it is the way the mic is designed. The piece that is attached to the earpiece is almost completely solid, and the flexible part is only on the end. It causes the mic to be hard to position. Also, it has no mute button, so people can hear unrelated converstaions you're having during play. The earpiece is very high quality (it even has some bass in there that I heard from someone blasting music through their own mic), but that is a con also. There is no volume control for the earpiece and people who are being really loud can deafen you, requiring you to tell them to shut up or stop shouting. You could always mute them, but sometimes your friends are just loud in general when they talk and muting them is not really an option when trying to communicate.
It sounds like a lot of bad stuff, but it really is a good headset. I'm just really picky is all.
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I truly don't understand all the comments on durability...
Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2006
I bought three of these at our local Wal-Mart; they had put them in the clearance aisle of the electronics section because they were busy pushing some new wireless headset.I've beaten them up, left them on the floor, dropped equipment on them, and crammed them into my overstuffed backpack (with a laptop and about 15 pounds of file folders).I actually bought them because I read somewhere that this unit works perfectly with MacOS X -- no drivers to install at all (and they were right). They get plugged in for videoconferencing in iChat, or when I need to listen to my voice mail at work without annoying my cube-mates.There is an in-line mute button and volume control halfway up the cord.The quality is at least as good as I'm used to with a pair of cheap ear-buds; since it's already at my desk, I often use one of these units to listen to iTunes, and I've never felt compelled to unplug it and go digging for something better at the bottom of my drawer.Since the audio input hole (same plug as the microphone jack on a PC) expects line-level input instead of mic-level, we Mac users are left to purchase an extra adapter if we want to use some of the cheaper headset/mics that have only audio plugs -- and among those that have USB plugs, this was one of the cheapest I've found.I was expecting cheap quality, as well -- but so far, I'm pleased with what I got for my money.
Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2006
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