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Plantronics Multimedia Stereo Headset (Music, Gaming, Voice) (Audio 350) | 
 enlarge | Brand: Plantronics
Category: CE
List Price: $20.99
Buy New: $15.35
You Save: $5.64 (27%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  23 reviews
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 3.5 x 9.5 x 9.5
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: .AUDIO 350
Model: .AUDIO 350
UPC: 840356464459
EAN: 0017229122147
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 40mm speakers convey rich, resonant stereo with maximum bass response. Inline volume and mute offer easy access and control. | | • | Lightweight, flexible headband & swivel-mounted pillow-soft ear cushions deliver comfortable all-day wear. | | • | Noise-canceling microphone cuts out background distractions. | | • | QuickAdjust telescoping boom assures ideal placement when on, stows discreetly when off. |
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Product Description
Accelerate your gaming experience to the maximum speed of sound. The .Audio 350 Ultimate Performance headset supercharges games, music, Internet talk, video conferencing, and PC voice applications with bass-boosting, full-range stereo resonance. The feather-light, flexible headband and soft, swivel-mounted ear cushions deliver acoustic precision and ensure all-day listening and gaming comfort. A noise-canceling microphone enhances speech recognition, while the QuickAdjust telescoping, bendable boom assures ideal microphone placement. Swivel-mounted, pillow-soft ear cushions provide comfort and acoustic precision Inline volume and mute offer convenient access and control Works with popular PC sound cards
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| Customer Reviews: Read 18 more reviews...
 The best price to performance in mic/headset December 13, 2006
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I've been using variations of this headset for years of gaming and they are great. They have great sound and the mike works very well (as per the people I tall to via IP). Volume control and mute in-line-cable is very handy. These have always had problems with pulling out of the cable from the headset, damaging the mike function somehow, so make sure and tie the cable around the headset's ear-cup holder to prevent this. Over the years, the prices have been droping on this base model in it's various forms, and the overall quality feel to them has also dropped, but they still work well and can't be beat for the price! Hope this helps!
8/16/08 Update:
I needed another headset/mic for doing screencasting at work, so I ordered up another one of these. It works great for screencasting in Vista. For anyone who also has the folding 470, it's USB adapter works great with the 350 in Vista. I still highly recommended this headset for it's price-point.
A good entry-level gaming/Skype headset March 30, 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I wanted a decent-but-not-too-expensive headset to replace the old, worn-out freebie headset that had come with a computer many years prior. My requirements were few:
--I wanted standard audio/mic plugs rather than USB, as my ridiculously old employer-issued laptop had but one USB port.
--Padded headband, as I often have conference calls that last over an hour.
--Decently long cord, so I am not tied to my chair when on a call.
For relatively little money this headset delivers all those things. It's been a nice addition to my laptop bag.
The cons:
--The bass isn't fabulous. Hardcore gamers will notice this most, especially if they're used to playing on a system with a subwoofer. I find my music isn't as good as it could be.
--The earpieces aren't the most comfortable I've worn. The pads are sort of squarish, and are meant to sit on the ear rather than surround it, but my ears are small and want to kind of squish up inside, resulting in some less-than-pleasant ear-folding sensations.
--I have to do some serious fiddling with the boom to avoid the Darth Vader heavy breathing effect during Skype calls, but I have yet to find a headset that does this effectively anyway.
--It's not compact at ALL. The boom folds away up against the headband when not in use, but otherwise it doesn't break down further. It's pretty bulky.
All that said, however, I still like them, especially for the price tag.
Good sound and comfort March 11, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I bought this headset after returning another model to the store due to finding it too uncomfortable to wear for any length of time. This particular headset I've found to be comfortable enough to wear for several hours at a time without problems. Obviously comfort is something that can vary greatly by the shape of your head, and your ears, so your results may be different. What I have found with headsets is that if they seem to be pressing too hard on your ears, setting them around a tissue box (width is similar to a human head) helps to break them in a little and relieve some of the pressure.
I've had no problem with the sound quality. While these certainly aren't high end audiophile equipment, I can hear clearly and I've had no complaints from others about the sound quality of my microphone, and everyone seems to have no trouble understanding what I say.
In gaming it has been my experience that these are adequate to distinguish the location of a sound (which side of my character it's on, and whether at the front or back). I would suspect that most people who play first-person shooters regularly would want either proper surround sound speakers, or a somewhat higher end headset to help them pin down the location of sound even more closely, but for my casual gaming purposes I've been extremely happy with these results.
The cord is almost 3 meters, so in my personal experience it has an excellent balance of being long enough to allow me to move around in the area of the desk, without being so long that it's prone to get tangled badly. I've also enjoyed the on-cord controls to turn the mic on and off and to adjust the speaker volume. I've found them easy to use and conveniently placed.
 This Headset Is Just Wonderful July 6, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I bought this headset to replace my old one. I have tried the USB port headset for alot more money and didn't get the effect I wanted. When I saw this one, it was just like my old one so I thought I'd give it a try. I can't say enough about the performance. The sound is great, and I can put the headset down and go in another room and still hear on my speakers. The metal plugs are color coded, so it's not hard to find out where to plug them in next to the sound card. The ear phones are comfortable and the whole set is light weight for maximum comfort.
Great Bass sound but the earcups make sweat ur ears June 6, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Well... this is a great evolution for the Plantronics Audio.90, as you can see is the same sound system but diferent design, the mic is well placed and the retractil system works fine, the only thing is that the plugs are very very poor, they break pretty quick if you dont care of them and the ear cups make your ear sweat very quickly...
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