Hi Robert, This DSP300 of yours incorporating a microphone, sounds very interesting. How much did you pay for it and where did you get it from please? Is there a website where I could look it up? Many thanks. Best regards. Shashi. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Stokes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <Pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 10:42 AM Subject: Re: microphones for computer
> Plantronics supply a range of USB Headsets incorporating a microphone. I'm > currently using their DSP 300 model and am very pleased with it. I > previously tried about four headsets of the type that plug into the > soundcard, made by different manufacturers and found faults with all of > them. Using a SoundBlaster Live card, I wasn't able to produce sufficient > volume from the microphones when recording no matter what I tried. Another > thing to bear in mind with these types of microphone is: if the sound on the > computer is built in to the motherboard, avoiding the need for a soundcard, > noise from fans etc may be picked up by the microphone. This does not seem > to happen with USB types. > > I would suggest you purchase a USB headset. I must have spent sixty or > seventy pounds on the other type. Money I could have used towards obtaining > a top of the range USB headset. > > Good luck. > > Robert. > ----- Original -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.7.4 - Release Date: 25/01/2005 _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]