Plantronics VOYAGER-5200-UC (206110-01) Advanced NC Bluetooth Headsets System

I originally bought this headset for business purposes, but I quickly figured out I could connect it to my PC and use it as a communication device for Discord, Team Speak, and etc. This is really nice, because the headset is quite comfortable to wear, even for prolonged periods, and I can still enjoy the great sound from my desktop speakers. Plus, my friends never seem to notice my mechanical keyboard or sounds coming from my speakers, so it seems to do a good job of filtering out everything except voice (for the most part). The functionality of the headset is great. I like the volume buttons if I need to change volume quickly but don't want to tab over to Discord, and I really like that there's a mute button on the headset itself. Depending upon usage conditions this headset will last somewhere around 6 hours before needing to be recharged. One really shouldn't be gaming for 6 hours at a time without getting up and doing something else every once in awhile, anyways, so I feel like this is a pretty decent battery life. However, if you wanted to have a particularly long gaming marathon, this headset will run out of batteries sometime after the 6 hour mark and you will be forced to either wait for it to recharge (not sure how long this takes) and/or switch to another mic. Everyone once in awhile my friends and I will play for a long time and this has been an issue only a handful of times, even when breaks are taken and I place the headset on the charger during them. It just doesn't charge quickly enough in those 10-15 minute increments to really give the headset an appreciable charge. To that end, I have actually considered buying another headset and charging station so that one is always ready to go; that's how much I like this thing! Speaking of the charging station, it's pretty well designed. You can fold up the headset and close it inside of the box, or, you can stand the headset on top of the box by placing it in a little cut-out area where some contacts are. This is my favorite way to charge the headset because you don't have to open up the box, and it's always standing right there, ready to be picked up and used. I recently tried some Apple AirPods as an alternative (for a PC mic), and while they do work, they have their own drawbacks. In fact, they make me appreciate this headset even more. Because, with the AirPods, there is a noticeable "hum" during silence. And sometimes, you can here little beeps and blips, which I assume is bluetooth interference or something like that. With the Plantronics, it's totally dead silent, and you get no such interference. I can easily recommend this headset to virtually anyone. If you are strictly an iPhone user then I would still say to go with AirPods because they are great in their own way. But if you want to use this for gaming, or with your PC, in my opinion it is the superior option.

Best business headset I have used. I am a hardcore bluetooth wearer because I have carpal tunnel in both wrists and my hands go numb if I hold a cell phone for any period of time. I am also on the phone for business many hours a day. I can vouch for the battery life being about 5-6 hours continous run time because I bought two and regular use them both daily. I have used headsets for years and have been a big Plantronics fan have used the Voyager, Voyager Pro and several Edge versions. I have also tried the Jabra options and Sennheiser. However, I have often received complaints about background noise etc. because I am in the car and on travel a lot. That has now changed. I can tell you that I have been in my car, windows rolled down in traffic at 60 miles and hour and multiple people have confirmed they can't hear ANY background noise. Meaning they can't hear anything other than my voice. Now of course I don't intentionally drive like this while on a call but I threw everything at this headset so I would know, just in case what I needed to be concerned with and it came through with flying colors. Now, I will say, if you choose to have your head slightly out the window or sit directly in front of a fan on high, there will be some dropped Voice packets because no matter what, you can intentionally overwhelm the noise canceling capabilites but the amazing part is that the caller on the other line still hears no noise, just your voice cutting out a bit. This all may sound silly, but when you are walking down a street in the city, there can be an enormous amount of noise...cars, buses, people etc. We sometimes need to have a headset that can handle this stuff and the 5200 flat out crushes them all. Of course the over the ear design is a bit bulky but it does do a couple things. First it helps with the battery life. Second, it makes wearing it for long periods of time easier. For whatever reason, if I had an in ear model only, after a while I would have to take it off because my ear would literally get sore from wearing it. With this version, the weight seems to be distributed better and I get no pain even wearing it all day. It isn't Mission Impossible cool looking or anything but I much prefer form over fashion. One last note, Plantronics did a really cool thing with the case this time, allowing you to take a charger with you built in to the case which they have done before, particularly with the Edge, but in this case (pun intended), they took it a step further giving you the option of sitting the headset on the case with it closed to charge. I include a couple of pictures so you can see what I am talking about. This is awesome on several levels. It gives you a backup battery if you only have one headset (and it charges extremely fast, I think I had one on the charger for only like 15 minutes and got like 4 hours of talk time out of it), with two headsets you can swap them out of the case and have enough talk time to cover like 16 hours. I have had to swap between the two headsets multiple times and this battery pack lets you leave the charging cords at home. Really awesome. By the way, kudos to Plantronics for keeping the USB plug on the headset on this one. They had fiddled with non-USB contact chargers with USB adapters before that always drove me crazy. You have a micro USB plug right on the headset if you forget your battery pack and need to borrow someone's charger. Last but not least, this is a UC version which means you can connect it to your PC. A small Bluetooth PC adapter is included but I use a Microsoft Surface Book and it recognized and paired up with the 5200 immediately with no issues. This headset is a home run so far and for business users and road warriors, it looks like Plantronics has finally, truly conquered the noise cancelation issue, at least for me. Hope this Rd view help!!

Prima recensione Provato ma tutti gli interlocutori riferiscono qualità audio pessima, ho ripreso ad utilizzare il vecchio Plantronics Edge che sulla carta dovrebbe essere meno prestante. Il cellulare è samsung 8. Provato a dissociare e riassociare senza migliorie. Immagino che il pezzo che mi è arrivato sia difettoso, non posso immaginare che la qualità sia così scadente. Seconda recensione: ho ordinato un altro pezzo, cambiando il distributore. Non so se questo abbia influito o se quello precedente fosse semplicemente difettoso. In ogni caso ora funziona egregiamente ed è un netto salto rispetto all'Edge che avevo: - il suono viene giudicato perfetto dai miei interlocutori (mentre l'Edge risultava metallico) - la riduzione del rumore è eccezionale: gli interlocutori non sentono rumoroso aspirapolvere. riesco finalmente a parlare al cell sbrigando lavastoviglie ecc senza che mi venga rimproverato di fare rumore con i piatti e stoviglie! L'auricolare è più voluminoso dell'Edge ma non da nessun fastidio a portarlo. Il box di ricarica decisamente più esteso di quello dell'Edge ma alto la metà, direi che è persino più comodo. Molto soddisfatto!

I've had numerous Bluetooth headset in my life, and my last one was a Plantronics as well (Marquee M165 I got as a X-mas gift). The M165 I had received about 2 yrs ago had lots of trouble to work correctly with my iPhone 5 (and later 6), dropping constantly the calls and having problems to pair again. I opened a support ticket with customer service and it took quite a while and hassle before they agreed to exchange the unit. The second one worked better, so I suspect it was related to a firmware issue.. Unfortunately I lost the 2ne unit a while after and I didn't replaced it, as from the wearing confort I felt it was not so good. My all-time best BT headset was a Jabra BT8010, which was a genius engineering piece as you could attach a second hearing piece. However it wasn't perfect as the hook was breaking on a regular basis and I had to buy quite a few replacements. In the end it also had firmware issues that were never really addressed by Jabra and then got discontinued. Recently I started to work more & more with online customers thru Skype and the like tools, so I had to find a good headset, and wearing the cable-bound ones wasn't very practical. My car also had hands-free built-in BT thru MS Sync, so I hadn't a need for another BT set. But with the above mentioned issue, I decided to shop around for another new BT headset. When a friend of mine talked about the Voyager from PLT, I looked up reviews and was quite disappointed by the first edition, as it was not using standard USB charging ports. Then I saw the 5200 UC, which was an improved version of the original one, and let me tell you that it is one of the best piece of technology in this area.. The concept of the carrying box with the built-in battery to recharge the headset is genius.. wish more manufacturers do that. The wearing confort is also excellent, though I'm little worried about the longevity of the flexible hook part, which I feel is not very strong.. but only time will tell if PLT used 1st grade material to build this. The sound quality seems excellent, as one person on the phone recently told me that even with the lot of background noise they had around them, my voice was clear and loud. I haven't tested it yet with a windy outdoor condition, but the multi-microphone concept is supposed to take care of this and the noise cancellation too. The buttons are well positioned and it doesn't take long to get used to it. The first days I wore it, I almost forget about it, as it is not feeling heavy or getting in the way... The behind the ear wear is very confortable and doesn't hurt after several hours, even as I have glasses. I love the auto-answering mode when you put the 5200 UC on it's holding socket in the box and when someone calls, you just pick it up and the call is answered. I also paired thru BT with my laptop, which works well, but on my Desktop PC I don't have Bluetooth, so the USB dongle is exactly what is needed in those cases. All in all this headset is becoming my next all-time runner up headset. Will post an update in a few months after I got a little more practical daily use.

Wish I had bought this years ago. I forget it’s on my ear and wear it all day. Ideal for Skype and Zoom meetings on my laptop. Mobile phone via Bluetooth is ok. Range nowhere near 10 meters when there are walls in the way.

Plantronics Voyager 5200 UC Wireless Bluetooth On Ear Headset with Mic (Black) is an amazing product

Ok, basics. There are 2 versions of the 5200 available - the 5200 UC and the 5200. The UC version is supplied with a USB Bluetooth dongle, which can provide Bluetooth capability to to a Windows or Apple PC, in the event that they do not have it already (1 USB port is taken up by the dongle, if used). Both the 5200 and the 5200 UC support the basic features of answer/reject call, volume up/down, etc, but the addition of a dedicated button allows the headset to trigger Siri/Alexa, etc if so set up. The case doubles as a charger with blue LED charge indicators on one corner, when the headset is either in the case, or stood in the charging recess on a desk, however, as a few other commentators have said, the placement is quite critical and whilst the headset looks to be 'seated', it isn't, so is not charging (I solved this by connecting the micro-USB charging port to the pc, the pc then provides an audible confirmation of the connection, with the Plantronics hub software providing a visual one in the system tray (the icon changes)). The use of the Plantronics hub software (Windows/IOS and Mac) is strongly recommended, as there have been a number of firmware updates for the 5200, and the hub software is how it's installed. Comfort-wise, the unit is light to wear and supplied with differing size ear-buds, with replacements available if needed, and sonically works very well indeed with both mobile phone calls and Teams calls (using Windows pc or iPad), with very clear audio in all cases. No 13A UK charger is supplied, as the case uses a traditional micro-USB socket for charging.