Product Description

Stereo Closed Ear-Cup Headset with Microphone - Altec Lansing PC interactive headsets offer superb sound and rugged reliability. Whether you use them for PC interactive gaming, Internet voice chats, or speech recognition, these comfortable headsets provide crystal-clear sound. You can even use them with your telephone (adapter required). With stereo and mono options, we offer the right headset for your needs. Best of all, they're comfortable and lightweight enough to wear every day.

Product Details

• Brand: Altec Lansing
• Model: AHS-502i
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 11.50" h x 3.30" w x 8.30" l, 1.00 pounds

Features

• Quality 36mm neodymium drivers deliver a full, rich sound
• Foldable, behind-the-head design fits comfortably and packs easily
• Noise-rejecting microphone helps minimize background noise
• Handy in-line volume control regulates audio level
• Microphone volume controller (High-Low-Mute) maximizes communication control

Customer Reviews

Very Good Headset
I have gone through several headsets before this one. On both of the previous headsets, the microphones failed, which was a big suprise from such a high-quality company as Logitech, were the headsets came from.

This time, I decided to go with Altec Lansing, and so far, I am not dissapointed. Although I can not say anything about reliablity yet, as I have only had them for several days, I can say everything else is awesome. The audio quality is phenominal. This is by far the best bass I have ever heard from ANY pair of headphones, including my $80 Sony MDR-NC5. The full cup design is a little uncomfortable at first, but provides better quality, and you get used to it. The microphone on this headset is not wonderful, but still above average. The volume is fine, and my friends say they can hear me fine over Teamspeak and in-game chats.

Overall, I would recommend this headset.

Great Sound but awful comfort
[Strengths] 1. The Best Bass I have ever heard on any headphone, 2. Overall very good sound quality, 3. Decent styling for the price
[Weaknesses] 1. Poor wearing comfort for people with medium-large ears, 2. Limited headphone adjustment, dont fit well for people with large heads
Summary: I bought these for $17 + shipping and they seemed a good deal at that price especially since I was hoping that they would have the same 40mm neodymium drivers as the costlier ahs602i model, which has very good reviews.

And my guess about the above luckily turned out to be true as the sound quality is *awesome*. I have tried the headphone with rock, metal, japanese-percussion, techno, pop, western classical, vocal, jazz etc. genre's and they have performed excellent in each category. So if anyone tell you that these don't sound good, has probably ended up with a defective piece or is hard of hearing !

The microphone is good for using skype, gtalk, yahoo messenger like internet based voice chat software because these softwares automatically adjust the microphone volume to the required levels. However for normal voice recording you would have to turn on mic-boost which adds a hiss to the recording. Voice recording is terrible without turning the boost on... but somehow it works great for internet chat as all of my friends/family could hear me very well.

The only major problem i faced with these headphone is wearing comfort. The head pieces have a closed cup design and are good only for people with small ear's. As a result I can only wear these headphone for a maximum of 1 hour after which they become unbearable and my ear turn pink red. A few dimension to help you: my ears are 6.5cm tip to tip and the ear cups are 8.5cm dia with the inner hollow 4cm dia.

Next time i would be more careful about wear comfort.

Useful Tip: This headsets comes with a 1 yr mfg. warranty but on filling an online product registration it will be extended to 2 years (refer to the included registration card hidden in the packaging).

Great sound - when it works - shrink your ears!
I recently bought this item (not from this site). The sound is great however, I found the comfort to be very very lacking. I don't have a big head - nor do I have large ears. However, I have to take off my glasses if I use the headset for an extended period of time. There is indeed a constant sqeeze on the ears.

Also (maybe this is just me but it has happened on every computer I've tried them with [5]), they don't work all the time. Sometimes you just don't hear anything - when that happens though, I disconnect them and then plug them back in (that may be an issue for some people). When they do work, they work for the duration of your listening.

The style is rather nice for the price. The mic is OK with a little work but still OK. I hardly use the mic though, I use the headphones while I work to help focus while coding.