Kind of like listening through a tube! LOL! ----- Original Message ----- From: Neal Ewers To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 9:56 AM Subject: RE: Bluetooth Ear Peace Recommendations Wanted
Hi, Let's make sure we are talking about the same definition of compression here. There are at least two types of audio compression. One is the fact that sound is kept from going over a certain DB threshold by either a limiter or compressor. This causes the sound to be more even with respect to volume. Sometimes, if this is done poorly, you can hear the pumping sound that Alan mentions because you can hear the volume being quickly turned up and down. The second kind of compression is what I was talking about with regard to the Plantronics microphone and others. It is not compressed in the same way. This kind of compression is a simple narrowing of the audio band width. It would be like comparing 44.1 sampling rate to 11.025 which is a much poorer quality because the resulting file is smaller. Of course, the Plantronics and other microphones likely use both kinds of compression. Add in noise canceling, and you can get some very strange artifacts. Neal From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alan Paganelli Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 11:34 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Bluetooth Ear Peace Recommendations Wanted Neal, I understand. I don't think I'd like that pumping sound either and unfortunately some ear peaces have it. ----- Original Message ----- From: Neal Ewers To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 8:44 AM Subject: RE: Bluetooth Ear Peace Recommendations Wanted Hi Alan, No offence taken. As for using this in the wind. I have not tried that. As for compression, given what I said earlier about my thought that they try to cancel out some lower frequencies as well as certain other frequencies, I think it will depend on the voice as to whether it is an acceptable sound. I'm not trying to pass the buck here. Microphone sound, especially when it is compressed, is a very personal thing. I would be happy to Skype with you and use it if that would help. Let me know off list if interested. Neal From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alan Paganelli Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 10:15 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Bluetooth Ear Peace Recommendations Wanted I would want it for phone use and couldn't care less about recording. That having been said, I would be concerned about over compression on the mike. How is it in windy situations? This isn't a cheap ear peace so I'm trying to line up all my ducks first. And, thank you for sharing your experiences. When I said I couldn't care less about recording, I didn't mean it to sound argumentative so please don't take it that way. We've had a friendly relationship for many a year for that. ----- Original Message ----- From: Neal Ewers To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2013 9:39 AM Subject: RE: Bluetooth Ear Peace Recommendations Wanted First, it only works on Skype and phone. You cannot use it for any recording apps. Second. Whenever I use it, people always know. It sounds very compressed. They try to do so much noise canceling, that much of my voice is canceled as well. I think it would work better for a female voice, but one of the things that is often done when doing voice canceling is to remove low frequencies. I have a lot of those in my voice, so it just doesn't work for me. Neal From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alan Paganelli Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2013 11:12 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Bluetooth Ear Peace Recommendations Wanted What's wrong with it's mike? ----- Original Message ----- From: Neal Ewers To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2013 9:01 AM Subject: RE: Bluetooth Ear Peace Recommendations Wanted The M50 does have voice prompts when it is turned on and off. It's nice not to have to interpret yet another set of beeping noises. It also doesn't totally block sound from coming into your ear. I can't stand it's microphone, but for listening, it is very nice. Neal From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alan Paganelli Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2013 10:51 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Bluetooth Ear Peace Recommendations Wanted Raul,I understand where your coming from. I started out with a Plantronics 520 ear peace. It beeps when it gets paired and beeps if it gets disconnected. It's very comfortable to wear all day and delivers up to 8 hours talk time and 10 days in standby mode. It was around 40 bucks if you caught it on special. I liked it so well, when my son was looking for an ear peace for his smart phone, I bought him one for Christmas a couple of years ago. The ear peace is reliable and is reasonably free of wind noise. He didn't like it saying it fell off his ear to easily. I guess he has weird ears. I have never found that to be true and it just sits inside the ear canal rather then to go far into the ear which means it still lets outside sounds in so you can still read traffic. I lost mine. Where or how I know not and I was really ticked off with myself that I did lose it. My son sense he didn't like it gave me his so good on me for getting one. A friend of his got him a really nice one with like 3 mikes . Why it needs that many is beyond me but there you are. I'd like one of the newer ones that talk saying things like connect or not connected etc. If anybody has any recommendations I'd love to hear them. ----- Original Message ----- From: Raul A. Gallegos To: ViPhone List Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2013 7:07 PM Subject: lost my Plantronics M50 Hi all. yesterday I went to Austin to take a certification test for the state so I can legally train consumers with the state. In any case, I took my Plantronics M50 head phone, or rather, ear piece since it's for a single ear, with me, and somewhere between leaving the Chris Cole center and the Greyhound bus I lost it. I don't know if I dropped it out of my shirt pocket when I took something else out of it, or if I took it off and just left it there in the station. In any case, today I went out for some personal life things and really missed having the ear piece with me. So, now I find myself at Amazon, ready to purchase a replacement M50, but then am thinking that since I love exploring new items and trying out new things, maybe I should get a different kind. Then when I think of this I have second and third thoughts because I really like the M50. It's super light, has decent enough volume, and since I mainly use it for VoiceOver and Audio book or podcast listening, I am hesitant to buy another different brand. I've looked at this list's archives and see a few other models people have recommended, but I'm still not sure. I guess there is no point to this message other than saying that if you get used to something and then you don't have it, you will know how much you really liked it if you miss it a lot. -- Raul A. Gallegos Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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