{"id":36,"date":"2008-11-09T21:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T21:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrzeebo.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/09\/33"},"modified":"2010-05-24T15:23:02","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T15:23:02","slug":"33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/2008\/11\/09\/33\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluetooth Headsets Don&#8217;t Cut It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, after a year of experimenting with using a Bluetooth headset on my primary desktop, Fozzie, I&#8217;ve come to a conclusion &#8212; the technology isn&#8217;t quite there yet.  Even after adjusting to ensure line-of-sight with the receiver, the sound quality was never consistently good enough to rely on.  When it was good, it was really good.  But when it was bad &#8212; it was horrible.  So that headset now will become solely for cell phone use, where it seems to work perfectly fine.  But not with a computer.<\/p>\n<p>So, after re-evaluating all of my options for headsets, I&#8217;ve decided that I still believe the previous configuration to be the best.  That is, a good mobile phone headet connected via a Radio Shack headphone\/speaker switch that allows mobile phone headsets to connect to a PC.  And after re-evaluating mobile phone headsets for this purpose, I&#8217;ve similarly decided that headset I used to use is still the best available &#8212; a Plantronics MX-505.  Currently my old headset and switch are being successfully used on my wife&#8217;s computer, Clementine, so I&#8217;ve acquired a second Radio Shack switch (hard to come by now, they&#8217;re no longer manufactured) and a second Plantronics MX-505 headset, this time in black.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, after a year of experimenting with using a Bluetooth headset on my primary desktop, Fozzie, I&#8217;ve come to a conclusion &#8212; the technology isn&#8217;t quite there yet. Even after adjusting to ensure line-of-sight with the receiver, the sound quality was never consistently good enough to rely on. When it was good, it was really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fozzie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}