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A super comfortable Bluetooth headset for phone calls and video conferencing that features both Active Noise Cancelling (ANC) and Environmental Noise Cancelling (ENC) to make you sound great. That's the heart of the Cyber Acoustics CA Essential Bluetooth Headset, model HS2000BT. Tested by tech expert Dave Taylor - with a demo included in this review - they're a solid upgrade to any teacher, call center employee, home office worker, or even someone who just wants to chat with the family while having the freedom of wireless communications.
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A Bluetooth headset with ANC and ENC
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Let's check it out. Dave Taylor here, and I'm checking out this
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This is the Cyber Acoustics Essential Bluetooth headset. Cyberacoustics makes a lot of gear for schools and for other challenging situations
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and they do a really great job. This is one of their first wireless headset
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So instead of having you tethered to your computer or your phone or whatever device you're working with
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this gives you the freedom of Bluetooth so you can walk around. Now, it's also a dual connect
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So you can have it connected to your computer and your smartphone at the same time
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And it's really easy to switch between them. So you can be listening to music on your computer
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And when a call comes in, just switch over and take it. Super easy. Now, stereo sound, and it's actually really good sound
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I was really surprised. You can enjoy music on this. You could be watching Netflix and then switch over to a call
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If you work at a call center at home, and it's not nonstop phone calls
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then you could be listening to music or something on this and quite enjoying it
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So it's a noise-canceling microphones. Let me go ahead and put it on
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So it's really comfortable, incredibly light, and the earpieces are very padded
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You can see here. It's all very easy. easy to work with and adjustable. So it's super light and once you have it on, if I want to
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mute the microphone, all I have to do is turn it up. But in fact, on the right hand ear are a
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number of controls. Let's just jump into a close-up and I'll explain what's what. There are
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five buttons on the right side. The top button is the multifunction button that gives you
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pause and play. You can turn off ANC if you want. The bottom button is Bluetooth
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and power so that how you switch between your two Bluetooth sources The left button is volume down the right button is volume up And that center button is your call button So you can answer or hang up
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And it also changes color on the ring, on the edge around it
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to show you if you're in mute status or if you're actually on a call
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So if you're in a call center, someone could glance over and see that you're actually on the phone
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and not actually talk to you. Like many of these designs, everything's really on the one
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one earpiece and so everything's happening here and if you look on the side there's a charging space here for
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USBC but one interesting thing is I happen to have a charge plate here this is for wireless charging
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it actually does wireless charging if you can get it to balance just so the left earpiece is actually
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a chi wireless charge let me turn it this way and you can see by that flashing red light I'm charging
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the headset right now wirelessly that's pretty cool. Now, I'm not sure in what situation you'd use that versus just using the included USB A to
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USBC charging cable. And it's a nice long cable. It really props to them for that. But if you want to do
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wireless charging, it does work that way. This is not included, however, so you will have to bring
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your own charger or Chi charger, as they say. Oh, and while we're talking about what's included
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this is cool, it includes a little USB Bluetooth dongle. So if you want to use a use a little USB Bluetooth
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So if you want to use this with a computer and the computer doesn't have Bluetooth, which some older PCs don't have, particularly desktop models, then you can just plug this in and not only will it work with this, but you won't even have to pair it. It's automatically paired. So one easy way to work with two devices is to plug this into a computer and then pair it with your smartphone as you would any other Bluetooth device. And now you're ready to rock and roll. So as I said, it has ANC, which you have a new computer
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is active noise canceling. So that means that the environment around you
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is going to be less annoying and less intrusive because it going to actually cancel out some of that environmental sound And it has ENC which is environmental noise canceling
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And that's so when you're talking on the microphone, and it's a really nice quality mic, I'll give you a demo in a second
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but it will cancel out some of the environmental noise so the person on the other end can hear you better too
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Pretty smart. Now, battery life-wise, if you use ANC, and you probably will, then you're going to get about
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20 hours on a charge, that works fine. If you turn off ANC, you'll get 27 hours. So it gives you about
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what, 20% more time if you're not using that active noise canceling. If you're in a quiet environment
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if you work at home and there's no one around you except maybe your dog or something, then you
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don't need ANC. You'll get a whole other day of use out of the charge. Super easy to work with
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And compatibility wise, Windows, Mac, Android, iPhone, iPad. you know, really any device that can handle Bluetooth or that has a USBA connector
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and you should be ready to rock and roll. And this works great with a lot of video conferencing software too
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So if you spend a lot of time on Microsoft Teams or Skype or Zoom or Slack or Google Meet
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then this is a game changer. You'll just slip it on. In fact, let me go ahead and turn these on and you just slip it on and you're ready to go
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So I'm going to adjust the mic just so, and it just said connected
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And not only did it say connected, but I could hear the ANC come on because my background noise suddenly went away
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So very nice. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to jump into the voice recorder here on my iPhone
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And now what you're hearing is you're hearing my voice being recorded through the cyber acoustics essential Bluetooth headset
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And as you can hear it sounds really good It really clean It very listenable And this is what someone would hear if you were on a Zoom call with them or if you were on a phone call with them And then when you done you can just tap on the earpiece and get on with whatever else you doing Super easy to work with
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So let me stop this. And that's really everything I can tell you about it
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It comes in a very modest, easily recycled package, which I really appreciate
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It also includes this nice guide that's easy to read and totally gets you going really quickly
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So the whole package is the essential Bluetooth headset, the Bluetooth dongle, the charging wire, and of course, those instructions
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And that's all you need because you already have all the other devices. You just want to make your acoustic world a little easier
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So great. Now, we do need to talk about the price, but before we get to the price, I'm going to ask you, if you could subscribe to my channel really helps me out
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And I really appreciate it. And it helps you out because I give you straight and candid reviews with demos
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Click or tap on that subscribe button. Click on the bell so that you turn on notifications
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And we're connected. Great. Thank you. This is the Cyberacoustics Essential Bluetooth headset
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And it's 12999 at Amazon.com. Now that might sound a little spendy compared to some of the other gear out there
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but this has a great battery life, ANC and ENC, and not only are you going to sound really good
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but the person you're talking to is also going to sound really good. And that's a win-win
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And not to mention, it's super light and super comfortable. Nothing not to like here
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So check it out. That's all I got. I'll catch you in my next video
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