I bought this Skullcandy PLYR 2 Headset with microphone from Radio Shack for $99+ but I noticed Amazon has them for $89 but not sure about the shipping.
It is wireless. 2.4 GHZ frequency use. It has a 50 foot range. i read in the reviews that this guy said it worked when he went two stories/floors away. I tested about 20 feet and was great. Freedom to move around was why I bought this unit. My opinions only. I am not saying to buy this unit. Only a review. JAWS Users Examine your current sound card you are using first. See what card you have and its shortcut letter in that list by pressing insert+j+u+o and a list will appear. See what sound card JAWS is using. Remember its shortcut letter. Sigmatel? then it will be S for its shortcut letter. Realtek the possibly R for its shortcut letter. If you use jaws there is an important keystroke if you get stuck. insert+j+u+o which takes you to the JAWS sound settings if you hear no speech and stuck then press the shortcut letter for your sound card. For me since I use a Sigmatell sound card with JAWs I press insert+j+u+o+s To tell JAWS to use the Sigmatell sound card if I lose speech. Skullcandy Phone tech support at 1-888-my-skull you can also order this unit at the above number. First thing I did after ordering this unit was to read the reviews and the how to set it up. Usually one is supposed to do his research first then make the order but I did not. The Radio Shack phone representative seemed to know what he was saying and was a video game player and understood headsets so I took his recommendation. They come in different colors. I really was not asked about what color I wanted for the headset to be. Mine are yellow / black. The headset is adjustable but not foldable from waht I could tell. I have had this unit for only 8 hours so far. Accessories are, Headset with microphone 1 shorter USB cable 1 longer USB cable A transmitter I am not a audio expert and wears a hearing aid. The headset feels comfortable to me. I tested the headset with Skype. I did not wear the hearing aid when wearing the headset. Have the computer on. Connect the supplied shorter USB cable to your computer then to the transmitter's mini USB slot. You will hear found new hardware. Connect the supplied longer USB cable to the transmitter's regular USB slot. The other end of this USB cable will have the mini USB connector which you will use to charge your headset unit. I believe it uses a lithium ion battery. I was told to charge it for 12 hours the first time. Other accessories included are but not used by me are 2 RCA male to 1/8 inch cable. A 2.5mm cable for the XBox unit. Note: The 1/8 inch male cable to 1/8 inch male cable was not supplied. it was one the complaints in the reviews so have one handy. They say the local Dollar store has them. The transmitter has an 1/8 inch opening (3.5mm( which you can then connect to your computer's headphone output 1/8 inch opening. This is not required from what I can tell right now but I tested this and I was able to hear JAWS speech while talking to someone via Skype. The Skype user did not hear my screen reader's speech output sound. The headset has ear cups design. The left cup has the adjustable microphone. You can adust it to your liking. There is a way to mute the microphone but I have not tested it. You have push/move the mic down and it mutes. Move it back up and it unmutes the mic. The right ear cup has on the outside flat side a round rocker control. It is about the size in diameter like a penny or 16-18mm circle. Cannot miss this control. If you push up this control to 12 o'clock position the volume will go up in increments. At 6 o'clock the volume will go down. At 3 'o clock its for gaming mode and 9 0'clock its for voice mode. I use the 9 0'clock here. I pushed towards 9 o'clock position. To the left of this rocker control there is a power button. You will find it once you know. We are still on the right ear cup. It has a EQ presets. 3 presets you can choose from. Base, premium and I forget the other one. It slides up and down and clicks. Also next to this presets area there is a mini USB slot which you connect the loose mini USB connector that extends from the transmitter unit. This is how you charge the headset. So I let it charge for an hour first. you must pair the headset with your transmitter next. The transmitter has a button on its top. The right cup on the headset has the poer button. it is next to the rocker control. You hold down the power button on both the transmitter and Headset for 5 seconds and let go. Setup says to do it for 2 seconds. I had no indication that it was paired. maybe I missed something. maybe I should have had the headsets on and listen for something. So I went to my Windows sound settings and examined my playback and recording devices. Both read Skullcandy GMX... So I know it was ppaired successfully. Since I have my computer setup to use the internal sound card for my screen reader I examined this setting and it was still using the sigmatel internal sound card. This was what I wanted it to say. I also made sure the checkbox read Use Only Default Devices was unchecked in my Windows sound settings. Back to the Windows sound settings. For me the Recording volume for the microphone was set to 3% so I changed it to 100% with the home keyboard key. I saved my settings. Also it read it to me as Capture 3% so I changed it to 100% to be more precise here. I then opened Skype. It noticed i was using another headset and it popped up with a message. I had to use my JAWS routte JAWS to PC cursor mode and choose the ok with a JAWS left click as it told me if I wanted to use the Skullcandy headset with Skype. I tehn went to Skype's tools menu with alt+t and choose the options then audio settings and made sure the microphone was Skullcandy GMX 100% with the checkbox unchecked. For the speakers I made sure it read Skullcandy GMX 70% for the call volume and its checkbox unchecked. For the ringing section I told it to use my internal sound card Sigmatell so I could hear the Skype ringer ring come through the computer's speakers. I chose save to save the settings. I used Skype's Echo service to test the headset volume and mic quality. It worked for me. I then closed Skype completely. I rebooted my computer to make sure the sound settings were not affected. All was good. This unit is not a professional headset but suits my needs. maybe go to radio Shack and check them out. Feel it and where it. Ask questions where is this button and so on. Also, I had no sighted assistance witrh this headset. If it doesn't pair with the transmitter or you hear no speech for some reason just disconnect the USB cable that attaches to the transmitter. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com
