Do these have a mic also? I've been looking for a wireless headset mic combo
that has no cord to use in windows, actually, and want good quality sound
out of it. My Gemini VHF wireless mic sounds terrible and I don't want to
make another $100 mistake again. It sounds bad in the respect of background
noise, can't believe a cheap wired one from Radio Shack sounded many times
better but I would like wireless.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Howell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 9:06 PM
Subject: Re: hp bluetooth headphones progress: paired but not connected
Cheryl, ok I'm going to tell you a really confusing story. Sorry, but its
confusing from the point that I had a very fruitful conversation with
Apple, but in the end the results still suck.
I was at Radio Shack and grabbed the Motorola HT820 Bluetooth headset.
THis is capable of working with a cellphone or computer/ radio/other
streaming bluetooth audio source.
I had no problem at all in getting my Mac to see the headphones and in
fact it went to smoothly. I first enabled bluetooth, then if memory
serves me I let the Mac go find the sucker while I turned on the device
per the instructions. Ok, well in any case I'll not go into detail
because each device will differ in its method of getting discovered. Ok
so once all was configured, I had to go to System Preferences and in
sounds I choose the headphones as my output. Well here's where everything
went sower. First apparently there are different profiles for bluetooth
devices. One of these is wireless headphones, but I get the impression
this is more like telephone headphones, but I'm not clear if you choose
the profile, but I suspect not, I think its chosen based on the connected
device. Well needless to say the Motorola needed a profile called
something like AD2P or A2DP, but essentually its a high-quality audio
profile which if you do not have, your limited to mono, telephone quality
audio. Now what added insult to injury is that if for some reason your
headphones looses their connection or they go to sleep and the damned
thing isn't chatting with teh Mac all friendly at the minute, your
screwed cause you got no speech. Now if there's a way to swap them back
and forth without having to be in System Prefs and all that, would really
help. The problem was when the headphones got into a fit and started
making ugly noises, I couldn't get VO speaking or anything like that. Got
noise from the headphone of bonk and other system noises, but VO had
gotten really upset and wasn't speaking to me anymore. I had to get my
wife to reset things to the output of choice, speakers, but I also had to
reboot the box once or twice when I got into this fix and couldn't get VO
speaking regardless of turning it off/on etc.
I'm not so sure Bluetooth is the way to go even if it really sound good.
If I knew I'd not get into a jam like this, I'd be willing to take even a
little hit in quality, but for the cost of the headphones, no thanks, I'd
rather have a talking box.
If you get those working CHeryl, please let me know.
Scott
On Jan 5, 2006, at 9:30 AM, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
Well, you do have the option of a wireless headset--the kind with a base
rather than bluetooth. I did find something on google where somebody
with a Mac mini got some bluetooth headphones--logitech--
to work, but he did it with a very new usb bluetooth module. I found
some hints that some of the new bluetooth devices might not be supported
on our computers. when I tried to reconfigure, I got congratulations for
being finished but the message from bluetooth was that no supported
services were found. so either there's a missing piece of software out
there that would make these work on my Mac or they won't work.
--
Cheryl
"Where your treasure is,
there will your heart be also".
