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EPOS I SENNHEISER ADAPT 260 - Headset - on-ear - Bluetooth - wireless - USB - black - Certified for Microsoft Teams, Optimised for UC - for ADAPT 230, 231, 261

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The dongle LED flashes blue while searching and switches to dimmed blue when connected successfully to the headset.

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The LED flashes 2 times blue as soon as the headset finds a device to connect to. The LED turns off. And, the final control is a toggle switch that is mostly intended to change the volume setting. The problem with this not being a dial is that it jumps 10% of the volume setting with each push, making it difficult to configure the perfect settings without using a slider bar in Windows. The headsets are optimised for UC use and are Microsoft Teams certified. A dedicated button the headset allows the user to launch Teams on a connected computer when the USB dongle is used. Firmware and headphone management can be updated via the EPOS Manager and EPOS Connect software. To transmit data via Bluetooth, you first have to pair your headset to a wireless device. The delivered dongle is already paired with the headset.

When the microphone arm isn't required, and it can be stowed inside the band with a small retaining divot making it much easier to place inside the carry bag without the boom interfering. The arm also can come out in either direction, making it possible to reverse the control and inputs side.

EPOS ADAPT 260 HEADSET Bluetooth, double-sided, Microsoft EPOS ADAPT 260 HEADSET Bluetooth, double-sided, Microsoft

This single sided headset offers ‘exceptional wearing comfort’ along with a higher quality audio output than the ADAPT 100 series headsets. The ‘Ultra noise-cancelling’ microphone filters out ambient noise while the neodymium magnet speakers offer EPOS ActiveGard technology to apply a 118dB maximum to protect the listener from acoustic injury cause by sudden spikes in audio level.

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Enable Bluetooth on your mobile device and start the search for Bluetooth devices – see instruction manual of your mobile device.

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It's difficult to determine if the limited upper range is a bi-product of processing for voice clarity, but that looks like a likely scenario. These things said, listening to music on these isn’t a bad experience, but it isn’t one that audiophiles would run to embrace either. The headphones have leatherette ear pads for comfort over long periods of use, with the built-in 3.7V DC lithium polymer battery providing standby power of up to 62days, listening time of up to 46hours, and talking time of up to 39hours (each with ANC turned off). Charge time is 2hours and 30minutes. Nearby is the action button, which has various functions depending on what the headset is doing. For example, those using Microsoft Teams can answer a call with it. And, for those crazy enough to be using Cortana, it can fire off that technology ready to do your bidding. The headset can save up to eight paired devices. If you pair the headset with a ninth device, the device with the oldest activity in the pairing list will be overwritten. If you want to re-establish a connection with this device, you have to pair it again. Initially, this was bearable, but after wearing these for around three hours, the amount of friction started to make them less than comfortable, and the thought of wearing them for a whole working day wasn’t a pleasant one.Our perception of noise-cancelling in these devices has been recently coloured by reviewing the Bose 700 UC, which given the price of those, might be an unkind comparison. The strengths of this design are the excellent battery life, Microsoft Teams certification and how they’ve been optimised for UC. With both these standards in play, they should work well with most conferencing applications and softphones without requiring much effort on the part of the user. The headset can be connected to two of the paired devices at the same time. You can only connect another device by disconnecting one of the already connected devices.

EPOS | SENNHEISER ADAPT 260 USB Bluetooth Headset EPOS | SENNHEISER ADAPT 260 USB Bluetooth Headset

After we’d bathed in its design aesthetic, we noticed a few interesting choices that EPOS made that run counter to what we’ve seen elsewhere. This single-sided headset design offers 3.5mm/USB termination along with inline call control functionality, and is optimised for UC (Universal Communication) use and Skype via PC. We didn’t get that much, but it will certainly get you through more than a couple of days of use without needing to recharge. And, a full recharge doesn’t take more than a couple of hours.Your writer's head bears an uncanny resemblance to that of Kryton from Red Dwarf, and with the Apapt 260 positioned with the drivers directly over my ears, the top of the band didn’t touch the top of my head. Once I’d adjusted the band, it did fit better but the cushioning on the centre of the band directly on top of my head wasn’t enough to compensate for the curvature of my skull. Maybe they’re not the most comfortable cans we’ve worn, but they’re good in enough ways to easily justify this expenditure. Using USB-C on the headset is an intelligent choice, as there isn’t a wrong way to insert the cable, and it’s a very positive connection. It also allows those that use a USB-C charged laptop to charge the headset using the same charger. In use

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