Jabra Evolve2 85 Headset Link380c MS Stereo Stand Black

Me and my Evolve2's have known each other for about 2 years now. Not gonna lie, it hasn't always been easy. You'd think our relationship would be smooth going - I'd put on the headset and it sends sweet sounds into my ears and also makes me sound like a smooth talker with the swing arm mic...while the mic is excellent for calls, everyone hears me clearly, sometimes the switch between laptop and mobile isn't so neatly done. For example, if I'm on a google chat meeting and a call comes in on my mobile device, it'll cut me out of my meeting to prioritize the ringing phone. There's no way to set channel priority. Not cool. As for the sound, I've played around with the EQ settings and the bass is still not that great although it's awesome in the higher ranges. Since this ... MoreMe and my Evolve2's have known each other for about 2 years now. Not gonna lie, it hasn't always been easy. You'd think our relationship would be smooth going - I'd put on the headset and it sends sweet sounds into my ears and also makes me sound like a smooth talker with the swing arm mic...while the mic is excellent for calls, everyone hears me clearly, sometimes the switch between laptop and mobile isn't so neatly done. For example, if I'm on a google chat meeting and a call comes in on my mobile device, it'll cut me out of my meeting to prioritize the ringing phone. There's no way to set channel priority. Not cool. As for the sound, I've played around with the EQ settings and the bass is still not that great although it's awesome in the higher ranges. Since this is an over the ear headset, and has active noise cancelling, I can focus pretty well with them on. Too well actually, others have been able to sneak up on me and scare the daylights out of me so unless I'm peacefully by myself, I tend to half cover my ears so that I can hear who I'm about to counter-attack and also hear myself talking to monitor my speaking volume. Overall, I love this headset but the one thing I wish it would allow me to do is replace the stock ear cushions. The original ear cushions snap off and on and are soft but not cushy so trying to find a 3rd party upgrade hasn't been easy due to fit alone. So after all that I've said, if I can't upgrade it to make them more comfortable, I'm upgrading it altogether. Sorry Evolve2, it was nice to have known ya.

Comfortable, professional noise-cancelling headset for conference calls and working from home

The two main features that I think a professional would appreciate in this headset are: - Over the ear cups for increased comfort allowing you to wear the headset for a longer period of time. - Noise cancelling microphone blocking out unwanted background noise when on a call. When I was on my Teams and Zoom for work or personal phone calls, the people I was speaking to could not hear my keyboard clicking, or my water running in the sink, or the dishes being done while I was in the kitchen, or my roommates when they were speaking loudly outside of my room. My call partners only heard my voice, and they said my clarity was great! Further, the noise cancelling is good in these headphones, as good as something like AirPod Pros, but probably not as good as the Bose QC 35 ... MoreThe two main features that I think a professional would appreciate in this headset are: - Over the ear cups for increased comfort allowing you to wear the headset for a longer period of time. - Noise cancelling microphone blocking out unwanted background noise when on a call. When I was on my Teams and Zoom for work or personal phone calls, the people I was speaking to could not hear my keyboard clicking, or my water running in the sink, or the dishes being done while I was in the kitchen, or my roommates when they were speaking loudly outside of my room. My call partners only heard my voice, and they said my clarity was great! Further, the noise cancelling is good in these headphones, as good as something like AirPod Pros, but probably not as good as the Bose QC 35 II. So youre going to hear voices fairly easily with these headphones with ANC on, though at a reduced level. Lower level sounds will be cancelled out easily. These headsets are also good for music, though for more instrumental and vocal tracks. These headphones are not great for bass tracks, or tracks that have a very wide range. Its adequate, youll enjoy your music, but theres better out there for that. This headset can be worn for a long period of time once you stretch it out a bit after its first taken out of the box brand new.

Great headset just as the Headset Advisor reviews had said!

I had recently taken a position with a company that uses the MS TEAMS platform for a great deal of their in-house training and meeting sessions as well as lots of conference calls. I could tell very early on that a good headset was going to be very helpful during those office activities. Since I had already owned a set of Jabra earbuds, I was leaning toward the Jabra Evolve2 85 headsets, but given their price tag, I wasn’t comfortable “trying them out” and potentially not finding them adequate for my needs. I did a lot of research on them and in that process I found headset advisor. I watched the review videos and the various comparison videos on the channel and those were what helped me finally to decide to go ahead with my purchase. After receiving them, I used ... MoreI had recently taken a position with a company that uses the MS TEAMS platform for a great deal of their in-house training and meeting sessions as well as lots of conference calls. I could tell very early on that a good headset was going to be very helpful during those office activities. Since I had already owned a set of Jabra earbuds, I was leaning toward the Jabra Evolve2 85 headsets, but given their price tag, I wasn’t comfortable “trying them out” and potentially not finding them adequate for my needs. I did a lot of research on them and in that process I found headset advisor. I watched the review videos and the various comparison videos on the channel and those were what helped me finally to decide to go ahead with my purchase. After receiving them, I used them for the various functions and features they have been designed for and there is no doubt they are likely the best headset around for not only TEAMS activities, but just generally speaking as well! No regrets and I will always recommend them to friends and colleagues.

Jabra Evolve2 75 MS Teams *USB-C* Black with Charging Stand

Best headset I have purchased. I can roam a fair distance from the computer when in a meeting and still have clear sound. The headset is comfortable when worn for many hours at a time and can be connected to my phone and 2 laptops at the same time. The ANC is also very good and blocks almost all other external noises and from what I can understand from my colleagues, the noise reduction in the microphone is also very good. The charging stand is handy so I don't have to plug in the USB cable to keep the headset charged

Jabra Evolve2 85 MS Stereo + Charging Stand, **USB-C**, Black

Excellent headset. Very comfortable with the nicely padded over-the-ear earphones. Excellent ambient noise reduction. Excellent sound quality. Nice unobtrusive fold-up microphone. Great wireless range - I can walk around the office and still communicate by phone or via MS Teams.Much better charging stand than the Jabra Evolve 65, which was fiddly to ensure the headset was connected to the charger.I would definitely buy it again and would definitely recommend these headsets.

Jabra Evolve2 85 UC Stereo + Charging Stand,**USB-C**, Black

They are solid but comfy, great sound, ACN is pretty good and I love the retractable boom. If you have the budget you can't go too far wrong.I would give 5/5 but there are a couple of little fiddly things with them, such as, the hearthrough function switches on every time you start a call. Apparently there is no way to turn this off. It really annoys some people, but I just switch it back on each time with a very easily located button so not a biggie.

Not bad but has annoying flaws and feels like it was abandoned by Jabra

Things I like:- Busy light indicates when I'm in a call or a meeting so my wife knows not to disturb me.- ANC is good, I had Bose QC35 before and I honestly did not notice a difference.- Retractable mic boom arm. It allows the speech to be a lot clearer than mics in the headphones themselves, plus it allows me to use these headphones outside. I even used them on a plane once and it was a great experience overall.- Hear-through mode is useful, used it a lot during traveling and while working when I need to hear my surroundings.- Sound quality is good.Now the things I don't like:- Mode switching button always cycles ANC / Off / Hear-through. So in order to go from ANC to Hear-through (the most often use case) two button presses are required. I would much ... MoreThings I like:- Busy light indicates when I'm in a call or a meeting so my wife knows not to disturb me.- ANC is good, I had Bose QC35 before and I honestly did not notice a difference.- Retractable mic boom arm. It allows the speech to be a lot clearer than mics in the headphones themselves, plus it allows me to use these headphones outside. I even used them on a plane once and it was a great experience overall.- Hear-through mode is useful, used it a lot during traveling and while working when I need to hear my surroundings.- Sound quality is good.Now the things I don't like:- Mode switching button always cycles ANC / Off / Hear-through. So in order to go from ANC to Hear-through (the most often use case) two button presses are required. I would much rather prefer this to be configurable to remove Off from this list as I never had a use for this mode.- During a call the mode switches to Off automatically so to get ANC back I have to press the mode switch button. Also, during calls the list of modes change to Off / ANC with no Hear-though option. Weird.- iOS app is unreliable. Most of the time it can't detect the headset while it is paired and connected to the phone. All it shows is "Welcome back. Turn on and connect your device."- There is a weird bug when using the headphones with the charging stand. I usually turn the headset off at the end of the day and put them on the stand. When I take them from the stand the next day and turn them on, there is a 50/50 chance they would become unresponsive and won't connect to anything (phone, dongle) unless I power cycle them. It sounds like they go into a weird semi-on state when they will announce "Battery high" immediately after I put them on my head without me even touching the on/off switch. And then when I flick the switch to On I hear "No device connected". I tried several Evolve2 85 headsets on the latest firmware (1.3.8) and all of them exhibit the same issue. It is not consistent so sometimes it only happens once a week - and sometimes it happens every day. Very confusing.- Jabra Link 380 dongle has a very aggressive power-saving feature that switches off audio streaming if it detects silence for more than 1-1.5 seconds, and it takes half a second to wake up after it detects audio again. As a result, any tutorial/video that has silent parts in between sentences becomes very painful to listen to, with constant fade-ins and lost words.- The latest firmware update was in December 17, 2020. It looks like this product was abandoned.

One of the best headset

Best headset, I already use Evolve 75 MS Duo at office (delivered by my company) for mor than 2 years. This is the reason I buy also a Jabra for my personal use.Excelent on music (you have the "brake" them in for something like 4 to 6 hours to get the best from the drivers. The quality of music play comes after... just by curiosity, play a song just out of the box... play a rock song on repeat for 4 hours without have the head set on you... and test them again.... big diference.The battery life on this is amaizing.Eas of use, very good phisical buttons placementGrate app

Re: model versions

Since Jabra makes things so hard for vendors and OfficeMax/Depot don't even notice their MANY different skus for these headsets to even bother with a real description. Here's the best I can tell from internet research. According to Jabra directly (see their 'Techsheet' on their website for the Evolve2 85) AND using a cite called PCNation this is what I *THINK* is the correlation. You have 4 parameters to choose from for these headsets 1) MS or UC Certified 2) with Stand or without 3) USB-A dongle or USB-C 4) Black or Beige (beige all sold out at the time of this writing) Below MS is Microsoft Teams certified; UC is UC Certified.OfficeMax 'Manufacturer #' (aka PCN#) - OfficeMax 'item #' - Jabra SKU - Model:1) 7LK721 - 5530054 - 28599-989-899 - Evolve2 85, ... MoreSince Jabra makes things so hard for vendors and OfficeMax/Depot don't even notice their MANY different skus for these headsets to even bother with a real description. Here's the best I can tell from internet research. According to Jabra directly (see their 'Techsheet' on their website for the Evolve2 85) AND using a cite called PCNation this is what I *THINK* is the correlation. You have 4 parameters to choose from for these headsets 1) MS or UC Certified 2) with Stand or without 3) USB-A dongle or USB-C 4) Black or Beige (beige all sold out at the time of this writing) Below MS is Microsoft Teams certified; UC is UC Certified.OfficeMax 'Manufacturer #' (aka PCN#) - OfficeMax 'item #' - Jabra SKU - Model:1) 7LK721 - 5530054 - 28599-989-899 - Evolve2 85, Link380c (USB C) UC Stereo Black;2) 7LK725 - 9768857 - 28599-989-999 - Evolve2 85, Link380a (USB A) UC Stereo Black;3) 7LK723 - 8265639 - 28599-989-989 - Evolve2 85, Link380a (USB A) UC Stereo Desk Stand Black;4) 7LK719 - 4611302 - 28599-989-889 - Evolve2 85, Link380c (USB C) UC Stereo Desk Stand Black;5) 7LK733 - 5532539 - 28599-999-999 - Evolve2 85, Link380a (USB A) MS Stereo Black6) 7LK729 - 8924593 - 28599-999-899 - Evolve2 85, Link380c (USB C) MS Stereo Black7) 7LK727 - 7254357 - 28599-999-889 - Evolve2 85, Link380c (USB C) MS Stereo Desk Stand Black

very mediocre

Expensive headset and figured I would treat myself because so much of my work in on Teams. I used a Jabra evolve 75 until it died and it worked great. This, however, not so much. The fit is poor with the mic running into my face unless I tilt the headset to weird angles. The sound quality of my mic over the dongle is terrible, sounds like I am wearing the mic 6 feet from my head. I am using bluetooth which is working well, but I cannot do that with all the computers I need to use for work. I asked to return and was advised to adjust then hard plastic and nearly immobile mic and to update the firmware on the dongle. The latter is impossible, I am using it on a secure work computer at home and in the office, the bluetooth is disabled on my desktop. All in all, it did ... MoreExpensive headset and figured I would treat myself because so much of my work in on Teams. I used a Jabra evolve 75 until it died and it worked great. This, however, not so much. The fit is poor with the mic running into my face unless I tilt the headset to weird angles. The sound quality of my mic over the dongle is terrible, sounds like I am wearing the mic 6 feet from my head. I am using bluetooth which is working well, but I cannot do that with all the computers I need to use for work. I asked to return and was advised to adjust then hard plastic and nearly immobile mic and to update the firmware on the dongle. The latter is impossible, I am using it on a secure work computer at home and in the office, the bluetooth is disabled on my desktop. All in all, it did not meet my expectations and I am looking to return it and buy a different model.