Product Description

Bang & Olufsen, the world-renown leader in audio reproduction and conceptual design raises the bar for Bluetooth headsets with the new Earset 2. Designed with Bang & Olufsen audio technology, all the benefits of a cordless headset come together. This is the difference between merely talking on the phone and really having a conversation.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #26582 in Consumer Electronics
• Color: Aluminum and Black
• Brand: Bang & Olufsen
• Model: 1100084
• Dimensions: .1 pounds

Features

• High-fidelity earphone headset made to fit your right ear; includes a 3 year manufacturer's warranty
• Specifically designed air vents to ensure true voice reproduction and a high-fidelity loudspeaker system microphone ensures optimum sound quality
• B&O has added 2 microphones, with filters to help reduce or cancel extraneous noises that distort both incoming and outgoing signals
• Compatible with all devices that are Compatible with Bluetooth version 1.1 or higher and headset profile 1.1 and hands free profile 1.0
• NOTE: This product is not compatible with iPhone 3GS

From the Manufacturer
From the Manufacturer

EarSet 2 - Have a Proper Conversation

The sound quality has to be heard to be believed. With EarSet 2 we went beyond all established standards to give you a matchless performance from a Bluetooth headset. The loudspeaker system is designed to high-fidelity standards. Specially designed air vents and a ‘bass port’ ensure true voice reproduction. The microphones are designed to filter out disturbances, such as wind or background noise. With Bang & Olufsen audio technology, all the benefits of a cordless headset come together. This is the difference between merely talking on the phone and really having a conversation.

Hear every word with crisp clarity

Ergonomics in Style

Addicted to your phone? Fortunately, EarSet 2 is comfortable enough for all-day use. It weighs just 22 grams (0.8 oz) and the design draws on the proven ergonomics from EarSet 1. It works with our Bluetooth-enabled Serene mobile phone, as well as other Bluetooth phones. The microphone arm controls your EarSet 2. Fold it out, and the EarSet is immediately turned on; fold it in, and EarSet 2 turns off. The practical and protective carrying case also doubles as an elegant charger for EarSet 2.

Real Familiar Voices

When creating our new Bluetooth headset, our acoustics experts aimed to achieve proper ‘vocal weight’ and tonal characteristics in the voice of the person you are speaking with. This is a traditional weakness of mobile phones and headsets, yet a limitation that Bang & Olufsen was unwilling to accept. The advanced audio processor in the EarSet 2 aims for the truest possible tonal characteristic of the voice of the person you are speaking with. EarSet 2 has a high quality loudspeaker system, where the membrane's capacity is supported by both air vents and a ‘bass port’, which ensures a good frequency response, in turn providing an extremely high degree of tonal precision.

Simple to use, easy to wear

Your Words and Nothing Else

Attention to background noise is especially important in a mobile headset. Whether you are talking while walking down a busy office corridor or while shopping downtown, you risk having your voice drowned out. EarSet 2 has two microphones, with special filters, to help reduce or cancel wind noise and other extraneous noises that distort both outgoing and incoming signals. To make the conversation appear realistic and natural, Bang & Olufsen engineers even paid attention to the sound during pauses in the conversation. Where these often appear as blank dropouts on other systems, we deliberately preserve parts of the transmission sound.

Beauty, Power, Quality

Bang & Olufsen's reputation is based on development of their unique technologies, beautiful design, creative solutions, outstanding quality and a never failing will to pursue perfection and make the impossible possible. Let the beauty of Bang & Olufsen’s products seduce you, but also do yourself the favor of going beyond the looks and let yourself be amazed, surprised and impressed by the outstanding technologies on which the Bang & Olufsen products are based.

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Customer Reviews

In a class by itself -- just don't lose the charger/base
My husband bought this for me for Christmas and I love it. the sound quality is in a class by itself. The comfort and ability to size it to any ears is what makes this headset truly outstanding. Most of them you have to really force a "one size fits all" fit your head and they did not feel secure at all.

The people that I am talking to aren't constantly asking "what???" and I'm able to hear people clearly even when I'm outside.

I love the way the charger base doubles as a case because I can throw the whole thing in my purse and not worry about it getting lost or crushed. This is a BIG advantage in my mind.

My only "ding" is that the charger is unlike any other -- the jack is particularly small -- so if you lose that, you are stuck. I have searched high and low for a replacement (I usually like to have at least 2 so I can charge at work and at home) but it seems like the only way I'm going to be able to have a "spare charger", then I'm going to have to buy an additional headset.

If anyone knows a source for a replacement charger, please let me know!

Other than that -- if you are more organized than I am and not in the habit of losing little things like chargers -- I would highly recommend this headset.

A bit spendy, but great!
I actually bought this as a gift for a friend so my information is second-hand...that said, she loves it! Great sound quality. The carry case it a bit awkward though (then again, we don't mind throwing around a $60 piece...$250 on the other hand should deserve a bit more care...)

too much money for too little substance
I brought this headset to go with my new iphone 3g. It looks beautiful, sounds great, but it has several flaws that made me send it back. First, it's huge! It covers your whole ear. The earpiece is big and hard and the cheap sponge ear piece cover does nothing to alleviate the problem. The microphone boom activates the earset. That's a good thing, right? No. The boom is counterintuitive. Instead of swinging outward, you have to lift the earpiece off of your ear to swing the boom outward from the other direction. It makes no sense at all. If I were paying $150 for this bluetooth set, I might forgive these flaws. But for $350, no way. I sent it right back. Form does not follow function for the money spent.