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Well this headset is nice however there is 2 things that I would like to change. 1 the headpeace is installed at an aquard angle so that the earpieces are not placed square over the ears and press down on the ears at an aquard angle. 2 my radioshack 20-30$ headset actually fit better, and more comfortable and had a 5hz-20Khz responce range vs this one having a 20hz-20Khz responce range.

The speakers and the mic work great, but as mentioned they are a bit uncomfortable after long periods of time. By uncomftorable, I don't mean that they are painful or unusable, just not ideal. I still used them for several hours at a time several times since I bought them. Trying Sennheiser next.

I've been searching all over town for an adapter so that I could use these with my phone. Circuit City, Best Buy, Radio Shack, you name it. Finally, I called Altec Lansing and they sent me to an online supplier. pocketpctechs.com is the only place I could find it. The adapter ran fifteen bucks plus eight bucks shipping. Almost better off buying a headset designed for phone.

That said, I like these a lot. Comfortable and decent sound quality. I wouldn't use them to listen to music, but good enough for gaming and chatting. Cord seems plenty long too.

I've now owned this headseat for over a year. I have Altec Lansing 5.1 PC speakers and thought this the AHS-502i would be the same quality, they are not. I frequently would swivel the mic boom away from my mouth/face and in alighment with the head cross piece, straight up in the air. After about 4 months, something must have gone wrong with the internal wiring, because it doesn't work and I can't adjust it to make it work. I continue to use the headset for just the headphones and now the "volume wheel" in the cable is going out. Music quality is good and the headphones have never had an issue and handle pretty strong and loud bass. Anyway, the wheel switch is full of static, cuts out and you spin it to get a good "stereo" connection. If I move or the cable changes position, the sound can cut out, it's touchy and sensitive. I am shopping now for a new headseat and will NOT replace this one with the same product.

I bought this for my husband who does alot of gaming on-line, where they use voice programs to communicate. But the sound quality for the headphones on this product was very muffled, and he ends up not using this becuse of the horrible sound quality. The mic portion of this product seems to work ok however.