Bluespoon Digital

Its noise canceling abilities are pretty good as I had the TV turned up very loud.  I was surprised it heard my voice as I could barely hear myself over the noise.  At first trying to wear it was really PAINFUL.  It kept falling out of my ear and the more I tried to push it in the more it hurt and the faster it popped out.  I kept thinking that my ear canal was just too small.  Also, I couldn't hear a thing on playback when I had it on, yet I could tell the mic was working and recording.  Duh! it took a while for me to figure out that I was not wearing it correctly.  The trick is in the little spring.  If you get the little spring hung in the right spot you barely have to push the headset in with a very slight twist.  I kept trying to corkscrew it in and that hurts and doesn't work.  I am wearing it now and it is pretty comfortable once you figure that out.  The little videos make it look simple and easy and it is; however, what you can't tell in the video is how hard or far to push it.  Answer, hardly at all.  As you will hear in the sound recordings it sounds more on the bass side so it is not tinny.

How about in actual use?  I spoke for about an hour yesterday using the 7100t.  I was both inside and outside.  My house has WiFi (A & G) and several computers going 24/7 so it is a high electronic noise background.  The other party said that he could hear a little static in the background but that I was perfectly intelligible.  I too could hear a little static and I could not quite get the volume level I would have preferred.  There was no echo on either end and when I was outside there was a light wind blowing and it never effected the conversation.  I tried it inside with the V3 and I had problems with the other party stating that he could not hear me and it would occasionally disconnect from the phone.  Yet when I did my recording test, it sounded better than the 7100t.  Pairing it up has been easy, but that can be misleading because after pairing behavior can be erratic.  I had a very difficult time getting it to work with MS Recorder and it would be hit and miss.  The Tekkeon never presents that type of problem.  Same can be true with the phone.  The unit definitely prefers line of sight to the phone for the cleanest sound.  I find the button placement to be a bad choice as it hurts to push on the headset and they are hard to locate for volume usage.  I have only had it a few days so I will test further before giving my final conclusion and recommendation.  Like all of these units, they work better with some phones than with others.  Why each manufacturer can’t test to the same standards is beyond me.  Maybe soon we will get some better standardization in Bluetooth.  If they don’t it will get such a bad reputation that it will be replaced by something that works better and more reliably.