Work from home... Buds and Overear?

[dlockers]

Struggling to get a decent setup - mainly for call quality for the recipients of my dulcet tones. I ordered a Plantronics BackBeat PRO 2 and some EchoBuds in Lockdown 1 but I am finding...

* The Echo Buds pick up absolutely every bit of background noise on calls
* The BackBeats are not comfortable for all day use, and often reboot when multiple bluetooth devices try and connect at ones (not happened for a while thankfully).

I also didn't realise that Bluetooth sucks for simultaneous RX/TX and therefore drops to a lower audio quality profile. This first emerged when the sound disappeared when joining Battlefield but now is just an annoyance.

I'm proposing to switch to some Jabra 75t's and..... BOSE QC 35ii - but think I will still retain the Bluetooth limitation.

Best to hold off for some BT5.0 kit? (not really qualified to know exactly what that means).

 

[ChazHurst]

All mics that are built into cables or headsets are bound to pick up quite a lot of ambient audio as they are generally omnidirectional.
The best rule of thumb is the closer you get the mic to the source, the higher the signal to noise ratio. The perfect spot for a mic is about 6 inches in front of your face, anywhere else is a compromise.

Getting a headset with a good mic on an arm might be a decent idea if you don't mind that look on video calls.

If that's not an option; if you are using a machine with any vaguely modern NVIDIA card you could run the RTX voice client to cancel the ambient noise. It's more powerful than any of the various softwares out there and only adds a tiny bit of latency to your voice.