I sat next to a musician named Seal on a flight from DC to SFO and he showed me a set of custom fit earbuds that he used in the studio to listen to what he needed to listen to while he was recording and avoid the other stuff. He also used them on the plane IIRC. I thought they were a few hundred dollars each. Is that true?

I had a huge crush on her. Played by Jeri Ryan (who was married to an alleged perv in Jack Ryan).

I want to say it the cost was just under $200 but that included the Bluetooth as well and now they have my molds to remake new ear pieces when ever I need. You don't need any clips around your ear or anything to hold it in place.

I got mine at a hearing aid store.

I had this problem. I figured out a workaround in about 5 seconds. Just scare up a wide rubberband and use it to hold the earpiece firmly in place in the charger.

I agree it's a little silly and shouldn't have to be done...but frankly it's such a great headset that I'm more than willing to deal with this small issue.

i have a couple of different ones and flip flop because i'm not really happy with either of them. I like the Plantronics 655 as mentioned earlier. Stopped by my Staples store and saw the 640 model for like $130. Used google and saw the 655 for like 70-80. i'll be purchasing it online definately. It's a 100% markup at staples on that model based on wholesale pricing. Guess there's a big market for that model or unit? hmmm.

I'm not a big fan of most Plantronics BT headsets, because I feel like I should be asking you what options you would like on your Dell when wearing it.

Two coworkers had the Jabra JX-10. One said the charger connection broke within a few weeks. The other said that he quit using it because the people he called kept complaining about not being able to hear him.

I've used the Moto HS-850 for a long time, and I've recently switched to the Moto H700. The H700 is about 30% smaller, and it has a much better fit. However, I've had a few people complain about not being able to hear me very well.

Great thread - which has reminded me that I need to go back to the well after my ill-fated experience with the pathetic Cardo Scala 500. :mad:

I'm going to wait a week and then place an Amazon order for both the Motorola HS 850 and the plantronics discovery 655. Plenty of time to test them out as all purchases after Nov. 1 can be returned until 1/31/2007. ^

I have experience with just two, but here you are:

a) Cardo Scala 500 from about a year ago. Clients kept asking me why I sounded so muffled and scratchy on the phone, so I quit using that one about two weeks after I got it. This unit may have had Bluetooth 1.0. Don't remember. The charger was also stupid (I bent the little charging wires) and the device didn't hang on my ear very well. At the time I think this one was $55 or so from AMZN.

b) Plantronics Discovery 510. Seems like a pretty good unit after less than a week of use. Comfortable and clear. No complaints from callees. This one was about $45, also from AMZN.

That "musician named Seal" is married to Heidi Klum.

Yummy.





Her. Not him. :D :D

Yes. He mentioned the complexity of a bicoastal marriage and called her when the flight landed.

The RIM HS-655 was supposed to have been available today (October 27), but now it says November 14.

Got one of these today:

http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?...p4_1&pid=10394

Pretty sweet :D

I don't know the answer to the question in the OP.

I post here to beg everyone, whatever you choose, please - don't be THIS GUY!

I see this guy a hundred times a day as it is. I recently had to do an intervention with a friend because of this. He honestly thought it was cool, hip. :(

It wasn't cool in '82 and it aint cool now.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Wearing your headset all day does NOT make you cool.
Wearing your headset all day does NOT make you look important.

In fact, if you walk around all day long with that thing on your head, you look silly. You look like a call center employee who forgot to take their work headset off. Nobody is that important that they need to wear a headset from morning till evening.

You know when it was cool? In 2000 when the very first Bluetooth headset was released. It was cool for whopping 8 minutes :D

Interesting sociology, or maybe anthropology, here in the cultural assessment here.

It seems to be generally fine to wear iPod like ear buds, including something like the SE HBH-DS970, which has the full phone support function, but if you wear the ear mounted headset, ewww!

Maybe Steve Jobs needs to be on the design team for headsets to rescue them from the land of self-importance or terminal tech-weenie-ness.