Cyber Acoustics 1500BT Review – Budget friendly, quality communications

Work at home remains to be a factor, an exquisite factor for many people that haven’t but migrated again to the workplace full-time. As a part of that there’s some gear customers have to profit from that chance. For me, that’s a docking station to allow swapping between machines shortly and simply, an honest headset for calls and good audio system for tunes…

Following the evaluate of their docking station lately, Cyber Acoustics supplied a few headsets for evaluate, the 1500BT and the 2000BT. First, we’ll check out the 1500BT and get to the 2000BT in a few weeks.

With an MSRP of AU$69.99, the 1500BT is hardly the costliest headset we’ve ever reviewed, but it surely’s truly fairly spectacular while you have a look at the options included for that finances.

Design, Setup and Consolation

Given the price of this, I did have a number of issues about purposeful it was going to be. I shortly realised although, that regardless of the low value, it’s truly a very good possibility to be used all day. There was a little bit of an odd difficulty with setup (simply resolved as soon as I learn the directions…) in that it’ll connect with a PC by way of USB dongle and to a cellphone by way of Bluetooth. To attain this in the course of the preliminary setup, it’s essential disconnect the USB Dongle, join the cellphone by way of Bluetooth after which plug within the USB dongle once more.

One thing I actually loved whereas testing the 1500BT is simply how light-weight the headset is. I forgot a few occasions that I even had the headset on; not less than till I obtained a name on my cellular or on Groups. It’s not probably the most closely padded headset I’ve ever worn, however the mixture of the light-weight and the adjustability on the ears and headband meant that it’s tremendous cozy. The adjustment signifies that customers are capable of hinge the ears in a number of instructions, with the band being agency sufficient to take care of the strain however not a lot strain as to make it uncomfortable.

By way of controls, there are a few issues right here I actually like. The primary is that they’re tactile controls, ie. The buttons are completely different shapes and may be simply recognised by contact, even in case you don’t recall which button is the place. These are situated on the left ear adjoining to the growth mic mounting, with quantity controls and name dealing with buttons all current. Whereas the buttons do cater to media playback, being sincere, I wouldn’t hearken to loads of music on this specific headset as a result of the standard of sound simply isn’t there. In actuality, that’s honest too given the fee and the headset I take advantage of day by day for music nonetheless prices practically $400.00

That apart, the audio high quality of the 1500BT is completely tremendous for cellphone or video calls.

The growth mic provides a very helpful function in that it will possibly hinge away out of your face simply. When the mic is angled at greater than round 60 levels, there’s a {hardware} mute that’s mechanically engaged. I discovered this so helpful as I’m usually on calls whereas in an open workplace space. This offers me the liberty to maneuver round with no need to be at my pc to mute and unmute myself however nonetheless be capable of reply to queries.

I had a few folks point out that my voice sounded just a little completely different to traditional. After I queried them about this, their description quantities to the mic clipping just a little bit when there was loads of background noise. Not one thing to essentially fear about, or is it a selected fault of this headset, it’s widespread to noise-cancelling microphones.

I’ve been crucial of some producers up to now for his or her determination — doubtless value associated — to make use of Micro USB and never USB-C. Cyber Acoustics have included USB-C charging. Given the overwhelming majority of my private gear is USB-C charging this simply alleviated the necessity to carry further cables.

Battery and Charging

After a few weeks of testing, I’m impressed with the battery life. Persistently the 1500BT was giving me three full days of use for work and that is leaving the headset on by way of the day. As a degree of reference, I’ll sometimes have a gentle stream of cellphone calls or MS Groups calls all through the day, averaging round 3 hours of use. After I did flip off the headset between calls, I bought a full week on a single cost which is a superb final result.

On the times I forgot to show off my headset, I nonetheless bought not less than a day and a half; fortunately, the battery warning is fairly conservative and provides you loads of warning to cost earlier than going flat. Charging was a bit gradual for my liking, taking about 90 minutes to get to full cost, however once more, given the price of the headset, I can forgive a number of minor points with specs.

I’d critically take into account shopping for this…

There’s no actual getting round it, this factor is an actual shock packet for me. Yeah, there’s a few little quirks to it in setup and the sound isn’t nice for audio playback. However in case you’re capable of forgive these two points, then there’s a lot to love concerning the Cyber Acoustics 1500BT.

Let’s begin with the worth…
At sub $70.00 it’s not an enormous funding, but it surely’s bought a fantastic function set to make your working life simpler.

There’s glorious audio high quality for calls, straightforward name dealing with on a cellphone or PC, nice battery life and fashionable normal charging. As an added bonus for anybody who commutes to work and will want to use it at dwelling or the workplace, the 1500BT additionally comes with a neat little carry bag.

The Cyber Acoustics 1500BT is obtainable by way of Amazon for $69.99 plus transport.