Friday, February 27, 2009

Tech in Review - FREETALK® Wireless Stereo Headset


The FREETALK® Wireless Stereo Headset is a down-to-earth simple solution to those that hate wires attached to your head when you listen to audio.

The headset actually replaces the audio equipment inside of your PC, bypassing your regular audio card and sending the data directly to the headsets base station. The Base station converts the audio and transmits it to the headset. 

Stereo audio quality is very good, but depends on your PC's ability and health. If your PC is a power house Dual Core P4 with lots of ram, it should work great, barring overloaded background tasks (like EVERY IM TOOL KNOWN TO MAN! ALONG WITH EVERY TOOLBAR!) or running heavy process applications (Maya Rendering or video editing)

Microphone recording quality is fair, more than respectable for gaming and skype phone conversations - But don't expect it to surpass a professional microphone for audio recording quality.

battery life is not that great, but keeping it on the charger while not in use is a good way to keep it handy. Gaming with this unit works 99% of the time, while the remainder leaves you with digital noise that sounds nothing like you are expecting. It's a problem that is easily ignored, but likely is due to trying to push audio through USB while so many other things use the USB interface for speedy information access, like USB hard drives, mice and keyboards all working at the same time.

Bottom line - $50 well spent.


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