Good Multipoint earbuds or headphones for work and play

[lonestar31]

I work at both the the office and at home occasionally depending on the need. I have found that using my beats for teams meetings works very well on my Dell, and the same can be said for my Iphone. However I am finding I would like to find something that could connect to two sources at once. At home it can get a bit noisy so I use my earbuds to use my phone/Dell laptop as needed. A lot of times I will have music/video/podcasts going on my computer too. I would love to have something that could switch easily between them when my phone rings. I have looked up couple of Multipoint capable devises and would like to here your experience with them if you have any.

 

Thank you.                           

[Psittac]

Multiple input's is a common question here, one that I typically avoid because it's beyond my personal experience.  However I would imagine that input mixing needs to be done through something external.  That is unless you are talking about switching devices with a tap to go from one to another.  Again this is out of my personal experience so that's going to come down to who ever does the software and, in that case, the bigger the name the better.

 

I can just give food for thought.

 

Have you considered a headphone instead of ear buds?  If nothing else this will open up your pool of potential solutions.

What about some avenue to route your phone calls through your computer?  I don't know your workflow, but this would put the mixing/switching into one device which would make it far easier to find a software solution, leaving only the remote switching an issue.  That is if you're away from your device, if you're in front of it the switching will be easy as a mouse click theoretically.

 

I do know that BT is a picky SOB and multiple devices may have just recently been introduced with a new standard, but from what little I heard that's multiple output rather than input.  Multiple inputs would be awesome from a tech standpoint.

[NinJake]

The Jabra 75t earbuds are what I use at work. I have them linked to my desktop and my cell phone. You can't listen to both devices at the same time, but they are permanently paired to both (granted I have bluetooth enabled on both devices). That's the simplest answer I have for you, and in the event I want to force audio from one device or another, I just disable the bluetooth from the device I don't want audio coming through. No need to pair/repair aside from the first time.

 

As an added benefit, the Jabra 75t have active noise cancellation, and a noise passthrough mode. There's also an app that you can download to tweak the EQ of the earbuds to suit your listening preferences. (out of the box, they are a bit heavy on the bass but I don't mind that for most EDM, but prefer to lower the bass response when listening to death metal for example)

 

If you want the ability to listen from multiple devices at a time, you will want a physical audio mixer. (You can do this via software but it gets complicated, I prefer to have a physical mixer personally) The mixer that best suited my needs was the Mackie ProFX12v3. Depending on how many inputs you want, you could probably get away with a smaller variant with less inputs compared to the 12input I just listed.

[lonestar31]

Yeah I simply want something so I can switch quickly from one source to the other. So I can be listening to youtube on my pc then a call comes in and I can quickly switch to just the phone. 

 

[lonestar31]

Also my phone is an Iphone 12 while I use a Dell laptop for work. I was looking at the AirPods, however I was unsure of just how well they would work on the PC for multipoint.

 

[NinJake]

1 minute ago, lonestar31 said:

Also my phone is an Iphone 12 while I use a Dell laptop for work. I was looking at the AirPods, however I was unsure of just how well they would work on the PC for multipoint.

 

I switch between android and apple phones frequently. Currently I'm using an iphone 12 as well and a Windows PC at work. It connects fine to both devices.

[lonestar31]

4 hours ago, NinJake said:

I switch between android and apple phones frequently. Currently I'm using an iphone 12 as well and a Windows PC at work. It connects fine to both devices.

 Ended up buying some Jabra Elite 4s as they are on sale at BB for $80 right now! Thanks for the help and I will report how they work. 

[lonestar31]

Happy to report the Elite 4s are working wonderfully! They jump back and forth from the laptop and iphone just the way I wanted them too. The only gripe I have is sometimes the calls do not come through the headset. This is usually easily fixed. Thank you all again for the help.