BlueParrott S450-XT Voice-Controlled Bluetooth Headset – Industry Leading Sound with Long Wireless Range, Extreme Comfort and Up to 24 Hours of Talk Time, Black, Stereo

Excellent stereo headset. I am a lawyer who telecommutes 100% of the time. Particularly during COVID, I noticed that I had better, less tiring and easier comprehension on phone/Zoom calls when I used my Apple earbuds - - because I was using both ears. As opposed to my then phone operator style single ear Blue Parrot headset. Our brains comprehend best when we hear with both ears!So I then bought these (only two ear version I could then find of Blue Parrot) and have been very pleased, in fact have bought three of them (for two locations and to replace one I broke).Bottom line is I hear extremely well with these, and adjacent noise (children) does not come through. I have recommended them highly to business acquaintances who have been similarly impressed.Comments: If you don’t flip the mike boom down towards your lips folks can’t hear you. That’s why they are called noise cancelling! They emphasize bass frequencies more than mid-range (which is where the intelligence in speech comes in). So people’s voices sound lower than they do in person - - Once dealing with a CSR with a very deep voice I had to switch back to my earbuds. Have not tried the app or tried to program them, work fine out of the box. Have not used them with music, in part due to the high bass, but that is not what I bought them for. Long battery life. Large and comfortable, size is why I bought a second one to use at our daughters (largish for travel, esp if you are traveling carry-on). Be gentle with the on-off switch, which is what I broke after three years.Highly recommend these.

To me, phone calls take a little getting used to, it's sort of like a phone call on the car stereo. I can get used to that. When they arrived I listened to music on them for 3 hours. During hour number 3 I ordered a second pair. Yes, for myself, two is one and one is none. I don't want to wear out one pair and find out they don't make them anymore. One caution, these go loud, really loud and in my opinion, the bass is very good I can now listen to a book or music while mowing my lawn. Not kidding, Honda self propelled lawn mower, I can still listen to Odd Billy Todd. The noise canceling on the microphone seems very good even without foam. And the microphone boom tucks in along side the right earpiece. I bought them strictly as headphones as I have a standard 450 for work. I did try them for work, and they work well for that. However despite sound coming around the earpiece, driving with them might not be the best idea. If your just wearing them and not listening to anything they are probably fine. But it would be hard not to turn up a good song. And honestly volume up, I can't hear myself talk. Oh, and they come with a very nice case, car charger, and a cord to plug them into a standard speaker jack. Yeah, if you have an I phone that probably doesn't mean much. But if you want to plug these into something that doesn't have bluetooth they can do that to.

Purchased May 2020 and used daily (avg 6 days a week) for over a year and about 4/days/week since Summer 2021. Excellent battery life. Sound was low quality on Headset mode but very good on Headphones mode (set in Windows/bluetooth/sound setup). But since I upgraded to Win 11 music sounds like Headset mode, low quality, and I tried updates and settings recommended but still not great for music. Very good for all the zoom & messenger, etc. calls. I often connect to both PC and my phone at same time and use for phone calls too. Noise cancellation very good. I recommend getting the free krisp.ai software which is amazing at microphone sound cancellation.

I had read some of the reviews and was getting somewhat excited. Double earpieces, Blue Parrot quality, it was expense (means better right? - wrong!), handled multiple phones, and I was thinking an excellent replacement for my broken Plantronics that served me for three years.One of the most significant "wants" was tying the piece to TWO separate cellphones. Tying them together was reasonably non-problematic, but using them after they were connected hs been (and still is) weeks later. First, and this drives me ABSOLUTELY NUTS, is that when I'm on a call on one phone, moving around my studio WITHIN 7 FEET, it continually tells me "PHONE 2 CONNECTED". Ok, fine, but if it's already connected, why are you losing connection if I move a few feet. Both connected devices are iPhone 11 Max, btw. So when I get the "connected" message, it soft mutes THE CALL I AM ON! to do it - oh, I can hear the message, but whatever the person on the other end of the phone is saying, I can't hear it! Second, when talking on one phone and answering a call on the other, it does that well - except the new call is muted so bad I can hardly hear it~ About 30 seconds later it will go to full volume, but that just means I've already missed the bulk of the call!I was SO ready to love these - now I hate them. Oh, tried to contact support as well - nothing. Thanks, guys/gals. If I weren't so busy, I would have returned them within the window - missed that - now I'm stuck with these POS headphones cause I can't afford NEW ones! DON'T BUY THIS HEADSET