Sennheiser PC 230 Headset

If you need something that you're likely to have on for more than a couple of hours at a time and often use right through the day, you're going to need some very comfortable headsets. Do yourself a favor and just take it from someone who takes both call quality and music more seriously than most.Ok you're still reading.... so here are the details:My last headset was a Sennheiser that lasted me a good 6 years of DAILY use so when they broke, my brand decision was certainly biased but I do own some comparable Logitech's as well and kept an open mind as I started looking.For calls:Lightweight and perfect fit from resistive swiveling cups instead of completely free cups that might be harder to keep position. Very easy to forget you have these on from the combination of lightness, fit and open air design that keeps the airflow going. No sweaty canals. No biting into ear-face (good noise transparent foam) or at skull-edge like clip on and behind the ears produce. The fact that good audio feedback is an integral part of a well designed headset is something you'll quickly discover, if you've ever used one that blocks out a lot of what you say. In-ear phones do this - most are intrinsically noise isolating by construction. These 230s shine in their ability to be almost completely unobtrusive when you're talking so you know exactly how you're coming across to the folks on the other side - just as you'd do in a room.The microphone flips back to mute - pretty convenient and likely more reliable than a flimsy in line switch option. Probably why it also comes with a 2 year warranty. The mic works at 50% (folded) as well as fully flexed out - think coffee convenience.For music:Amazing clarity and bass without boominess. Very well balanced across range given their price point and, as others have commented, what others twice the cost or more are likely to deliver. Put on something like Grey Lagoons by Roxy Music to hear the brilliance of a dozen instruments and even Bryan himself come to life, each in their own space.The bottom line - the only reason to not get these would be if you were in the market for a dedicate set of mostly-music headsets that you knew had to be of the closed type for an hour or two of dedicated listening with no compromises. Even then, I'm not sure I could keep my hands away from these!

I bought these about 6 months ago, to use with my PC for Skype and with my Smartphone while traveling; both my PC and phone have only a single jack so I also had to by the converter as these headsets come with two separate jacks for the mic and headphones. The sound quality is excellent, especially considering how lightweight they are, nobody has complained about the microphone quality and I think on the whole it is quite good. My only criticism is that they didn't come with a case or spare foam ear covers. I'm always worried that they will get broken/damaged while in my bag and I've noticed the ear covers are starting to fray a little - I do use them everyday and have been using them while running recently so I'm sure the sweat degrades them. Overall a good buy in my opinion.

I wanted to get an inexpensive mic for doing voice overs, talking to my computer programs and potentially skype type calls. I immediatley thought of Sennheiser to fufill my needs being a very happy owner of HD650s. The PC 230 is cheaply built, sound quality is what you'd expect from foam padded inexpensive headphones. The voice quality is what I expect from an inexpensive microphone. My expectations where high when I saw the MSRP of ~$68.00. If I were to do this over I would have just purchased a stand alone mic or a wireless mic and stick with my decent 13 year old computer speakers and lovely HD 650s!!

I had been using the headsets with mics that came with Rosetta Stone and they were pretty marginal. I wanted something that worked since Rosetta Stone utilizes voice recognition and I was getting false negatives on pronunciation due to faulty mics.I got this one and the errors went away instantly. I was not expecting high fidelity sound for this price, but was amazed at how good they sounded when I used them to listen to music on the PC. Really, really good.My one complaint is that (at the time of this writing) there is no way to tell you need a 'splitter' for PCs that lack two separate inputs for microphone and earphones. I have the Lenovo X220, and it has only a single combination jack for both.If you look at the pictures of this headset on Amazon, you cannot see that there are two separate plugs at the end of the wire. If you have two input jacks on your PC (red/pink and green) you are fine. Otherwise, you MUST order something to take the two and put them together into one jack. It must be very specific -- just grabbing a plug that has two jacks into one will not work. It MUST be one made specifically with mic and earphone plugs.The other option is to get mic and earphone plugs that go into a USB output. That should also work.I chose to buy the Headset Buddy which worked fine. But still -- a bit of warning on this would have meant that I did not have to place two separate orders after I discover what the ends look like on this headset after it arrives.Other than that, very happy with this headset.

HiI have been a Sennheiser fan for decades... my first pair of open, lightweight headphones back in the 80's were the HD-40's. When I could afford them, I "graduated" to an early version of the 600's. I've always loved their stuff.I'm in the midst of a series of road trips, and thought I could not go wrong with a Sennheiser product.I could not have been more wrong!This "Thing" is a cheap and nasty piece of work, and not worthy of the name at all.Lousy sound quality, lousy mic pickup, lousy construction, inferior in every way to a $20 RocketFish set I bought at Best Buy after 2 days on the road, having to hear "Sorry, what was that" from EVERYONE I tried to speak to using these things.Avoid!!!russ