LogitechH151 Wired Headset, Analog Stereo Headphones with Rotating Noise-Cancelling Microphone, 3.5 mm Audio Jack, In-Line Controls, PC/Mac/Laptop/Tablet/Smartphone - Black

1) For starters, it has a built in low frequency cutoff filter. This alone knocks out unnecessary low frequency sound. This feature will make your voice sound a thinner, smaller, less full, but this is a good thing for blocking noise. If you have a mid-range to high-range voice, this may not impact your voice, but will negate unwanted low frequency environmental noise.2) It primarily allows sound from a few inches away and as sound sources are further away, those distant sounds are attenuated.I use this headset when traveling. It is especially great in airports for knocking out the overhead announcements. My voice is just about the only sound the other party hears. It is amazingly good at canceling those otherwise interfering public announcements.I tested this while sitting on my couch with the TV on loud. First I tested my phone without using the headset and had my cell phone on normal speaker and then speaker phone. The other party could clearly hear the TV. Then I plugged in the headset and the other party could not hear the TV at all or not enough to understand what was being said on the TV. The TV sounds were practically non-existent if not completely so. It was very surprising how well this worked. My own voice was loud and clear to the listening person.Usually in my car, the other person could hear car road noise and radio, but when I plugged in this headset, they could not hear anything but my voice.I use this outside while walking around and it blocks all traffic noise, lawnmower noise, dogs barking, etc.. For any environmental sound to get through, it has to be close and loud.If you have your phone or device set to automatic gain, it will try to nullify this headset by increasing volume of distant sounds. It's best to have your voice gain on manual. If you understand how to use this headset, it is incredibly good at attenuating background sound of any kind. I love this headset. It has made my communications very effective when in noisy public environments or at home when there is kitchen noises, TV noises, or other people talking in the background. It also has a mute (microphone off) feature so you can completely eliminate all sounds (including you) while listening to someone giving long talks such as on conference or dictating instructions. If I could only have one communication headset, this would be it.I have had this headset for almost four years and it has had no problems. I purchased in August 2016 and today it is June 2020. It seems to be durable. I keep it in a large plastic bag when not it use. The plastic bag keeps it clean and protected while traveling.

I'm using the new headset to write this review as we speak. It works great. I can hear perfectly through it and I can dictate perfectly through it. And for the price, I don't know what else you could ask for. I was a little hesitant based on some of the negative reviews, but it works as described for me. I definitely recommend getting this if you're looking for a basic headset to be able to hear things and to be able to dictate.

After waiting for almost 2 weeks (the fault of the seller, located in CA, of course), they finally arrived. If you work online, you have to have these. They're light, comfortable and a good deal for the price. Just be careful what company sells them to you.

Good crisp audio quality for phone calls. I like an on-the-ear headset instead of in-ear because cell phones have little or no sidetone.Don't know what sidetone is? Back in the day, land line phone handsets fed the sound from the mic back into the earpiece, so a person could clearly monitor their own voice (and also hear any other sounds that the other party could hear that the mic picked up). That enabled a person to modulate their own voice (instead of screeching in order to hear themselves) and speak much more clearly. It made for a much better phone conversation experience. That feature was called sidetone.It's a feature that cell phone designers and engineers somehow decided not to add to cell phones, or to make it so low in volume as to be nonexistent.So until either cell phone engineers put sidetone back into cell phones or headset manufacturers start building it in as a feature, the workaround is on-ear headsets that allow you to hear your own voice while you speak.The downside is that on-ear headsets aren't exactly convenient to carry around, and they're not inconspicuous. And they can be a bother if you're wearing a hat.But they do give you some natural sidetone by allowing you to hear the sound of your voice. And this headset from Logitech, as I said, has some good crisp audio quality for phone calls.Which brings up another point. Even after years of development, possibly the thing cell phones still do worst is make phone calls. The audio can still be garbled and fluttery due to digitizing and signals that fade in and out in strength. So good audio quality---in that mid-range EQ sweet spot---can make cell phone calls a lot more pleasant.While there's a volume control on the cord, there's no answer button. That's probably a decision to keep the headset compatible with many devices.Overall, good headset.

I'm quite pleased with the sound quality of this headset. It's very good for the relatively low cost (about 20 bucks when I bought it). The mic switch on the cord controller is handy. The integrated controller itself is a bit heavy, and the cord is too short to make it practical to clip it to my clothes, so it tends to dangle and clatter on my desktop.The headphone earpads swivel a bit to try to conform to your particular head shape and ears. However, they don't swivel enough and press pretty hard on my ears. For short periods of time, this is fine. For more than an hour, however, these headphones become painful on my ears, especially on the tragus and antitragus. Given the amount of discomfort these generate, these really only warrant 3 stars.Good sound quality, though. And cheap.

Does what it says with no fuss. The way stuff used to be made!I got this because my phone's mouthpiece stopped working and instead of spending 7 hundred million dollars on a new phone I got this for 20$