Emerson Bluetooth 2.1 Stereo Wireless Headset with Frontwave Extreme Technology & In-Ear Amplification Emerson Bluetooth 2.1 Stereo Wireless Headset with Frontwave Extreme Technology & In-Ear Amplification

Pros: Pairing:
The pairing process was pretty straight forward and went without a hitch. Very easy. Exactly like pairing my previous BT headset.

Cons: •Charging:
Instructions say initial charging takes "approximately 3 hours" and that the red light goes off when it's fully charged. Well, the day I got it, I plugged it in at around 9:45pm and went 'out'. When I got back at around 1:30am, almost 4 hours later, the indicator light on the headset was still red. So I left it plugged in & went to bed. When I got up at around 10:45am, the light was STILL ON! Finally I said forget it and just unplugged the darn thing to use it. The charge port cover no longer stays closed. It's made of a material that bends and stays bent, unlike proper rubber like what should've been used there.
•Phone Use:
Can hear the caller just fine at anywhere within ~25'. Caller, however, reports that the volume of my voice is diminished when I'm within ~4-5' of the phone. This is pathetic. The headset I've used for years(as just a BT phone piece) never had that problem. I was able to have my phone in my pocket or on the desk, or in the next room and sound the same to people on the other end(they couldn't detect any change based on my distance unless I went way out of range).
•Earpieces:
They may look like they should be, but these are not sound isolating earpieces. I tried a larger cushion size to see if I could get them to seal = same result. The reason for this is that they're oriented pretty much perpendicular to the side of the head. Emerson engineers don't seem to realize that good earbuds insert into the ear canal at an ANGLE; something like 45 degrees. As this device is, long periods of use will necessitate frequent adjustment, and breaks from use, due to slowly increasing discomfort.
•Music & Audio Rendering Quality
Upon trying to get it to work with my computer, it installed fine(or looked like it did), but when I tried to play something with it, it showed on the computer like it was playing but I heard nothing. I went from the Playback tab to the Recording tab and heard it beep. I went back to the Playback tab and heard it beep again. I then told it to test the "Bluetooth Audio Renderer", as it called it, and I heard the chimes of the test; 1st on the left, then on the right, so it functioned properly. In the Playback tab, it showed both the audio renderer(stereo) and one it called "Bluetooth Hands-free Aduio" which was mono instead of stereo. I later had it disconnected from the computer and, upon reconnecting it, had to go through the same thing to get it to play sounds from the computer. strange & annoying. Also, if I have that 'Sound' dialogue box open, it will only play while it's on the Playback tab. If I'm playing from windows media player and select the recording tab in that dialogue box, it beeps, stops the music and functions only as a microphone. It's like the mic and the stereo speakers can't work at the same time; it's one or the other. A lot of this may be due to bad drivers but none came with the headset so I'm using what windows found for it. ...

Other Thoughts: ...(didn't have to do all this with my previous headset!) Audio quality when playing music is the same coming from my smartphone as it is coming from the computer, so it's not the BT radio on either of my devices. The speakers are just garbage!
•These are obviously meant more for phone calls than for listening to music or gaming wirelessly. The bass is almost non-existant. I did some testing with Audacity 1.3.13-beta & found that, aside from everything in the 'bass' range being REALLY quiet, anything less than 40Hz is completely inaudible. Also found that the same pretty much goes for anything over 17500Hz. It's strong volume range is between 550Hz and about 4600Hz, the loudest frequency being about 2000Hz. Everything outside of that range is noticeably quieter to the point of aggravation.
•Overall:
These headphones are a poor, cheaply done, barely thought out or researched, over advertised, uncomfortable, and overpriced sad excuse for an audio device. Considering I got them on a sale and used a coupon to drop the price down to about $24, one could easily argue, "Well what do you expect? You get what you pay for." And I suppose they'd be right. These are literally, IMO, half as good, if that, as the LG HBS-700 or HBS-730 which I forget I have on sometimes(not uncomfortable like this 'Piece'). I wanted to submit pictures that I took that show the actual size of the 'phones as well as the redness behind my ears that they caused but I can only upload videos for review so there'll be a slideshow vid coming up sometime. I haven't RMA'd these 'phones because the microphone works ok for in-game comms online. Otherwise, they'd have gone back in their box within 48 hrs of it being opened. >:(

-Frost

Pros: none

Cons: can't get it to work with anything

Other Thoughts: the seller took over 2 weeks to get it to me.

Pros: The Bluetooth link worked

Cons: They sound terrible, like a tinny transistor radio with no bass and little lower-mid range.

You have to be a contortionist to get them on. Of course, it's not worth the bother, the sound id so bad.

These are truly the worst sounding headphones I have ever heard.

Pros: Good sound, got them today and synced to my phone easily. the sound is good and the price was a real selling point

Cons: small. these things would be perfect if they where a bit bigger. i try to put them on and im worried they will break.

Other Thoughts: just need to be made larger or adjustable

Pros: None at all.

Cons: These are by far the worst headphones I have ever heard. They are fit to be used as torture devices at Guantanamo. If you like your music to sound like nails across a blackboard, then these headphones are for you. You would do far better using the $2.00 headphones from a cheap airline.

Pros: They connect to bluetooth.

Cons: They're too small for my head. I don't think I have an unusually large head but I can't fit the earpiece in one side without the other side popping out. Also, the design is very uncomfortable as the headphones dig into the back of my head behind the ear. I've tried every way to make them fit but they're not meant for humans, as far as I can tell.

Pros: so far dependable. I've recked bluetooth at the gym in the past. Many are water/sweat sensitive.

Cons: Tight fit to my head. I guess if my head was smaller this would not be an issue. The connection between right and left speaker is rigid.

Other Thoughts: the rubber in ear pad got lost on one side. Wish it was not suseptible to falling/being pulled off.