![]() I found two ways of working around it: constantly play a sine wave that is quiet enough so I can not hear it while being loud enough for the Jabra Link to stay enabled or use the SDK and manually enable the audio link permanently. This means that for example when watching a tutorial where the host is pausing the voice track for more than 2 seconds, I will lose the next 3-4 seconds of content, as the dongle turns off the audio link after 2 seconds of ’silence‘, then takes a short period of time to re-activate it and then the headsets starts to slowly fade in again. I wrote myself a rough shell script to quickly switch between profiles, you can find it below, so I will not by accident choose the wrong one again.īut the issue that annoyed me the most recently is the fact that the Jabra Link USB dongle will automatically disable the audio-link to the device, depending on the sound level it sees. While we are at it, the next annoyance, which could be related to Pulseaudio, is that when I by accident switch the USB-adapter to the Bluetooth profile with AC3, I will start to hear very loud buzzing noises from the headphones and its completely unusable. I usually have to manually switch my audio profile to the Low Quality two-way mode (which still is a lot better than the regular codec using the Linux BT-Audio stack) because especially my browser does not detect the microphone otherwise.īut then people tell my that the microphone in my Webcam sounds better than the Jabra headset. This is sadly not the case.īy using the Jabra Link USB-Interface, which is presenting itself as an USB sound card to the host, I don’t have to rely on the BT stack of my Operating System, but the sound quality still is drastically reduced whenever I switch the profile to enable the microphone. I made the naïve assumption, that when using the headset together with the provided USB dongle, the audio quality in meetings would be the same as when listening to music for me and comparable to a regular microphone for the other participants when I am speaking. Speaking of audio, here comes one of the biggest disappointment, but it is a general issue with two-way audio via Bluetooth. You may also want to double check if an incoming call on your phone in DNT mode will disconnect you from a running online meeting with your colleagues, while speaking. Sometimes pressing the center button on the right earpiece enables the Busy light, sometimes the phone starts talking in the bedroom and explains, somewhat loudly, at night, that I need to add some permissions to the Jabra App to enable voice commands. Sometimes pressing play starts the music on my mobile phone, sometimes it starts the music playing on my PC. ![]() It is not always clear to me, to which device button presses are sent. This is quiet (sic) different from the Bose QC that I used before.Ī nice feature however is, that I can pair the headset with two devices at once, so I can keep it connected to my mobile phone to change settings, while using it with my PC.īut this also can lead to confusion and frustration. ![]() It is loud enough for me to be heard even with silent music playing. When enabling ANC I notice a noise floor, that increases and decreases slowly (within 1-2 seconds) depending on outside noise. The headset also features ANC, but that’s already one of the parts I am not completely happy with. The battery capacity is high enough for me to listen to music the whole day, recharging is fast and it can be charged while in use via Bluetooth as well. The headsets comes with a USB-A to USB-C cable and, in contrast to statements in the manual, will not only charge via USB but also be recognized as USB sound card using the cable. Let’s first take a look at the features of the device. ![]() However, given the price of these devices I am not completely satisfied with some of the annoyances that I experienced over the last weeks that I am using the device on a daily base for listening to music, watching online Videos, e.g. I had some questions regarding the SDK they provide and they replied very quickly. In general I am happy with the Quality of the Headset and especially with the Jabra Support. The headset is currently using firmware 2.3.8 and the USB Dongle, a Jabra Link 380, is using firmware 1.10.9, both are the latest available at this point. Note that this is my personal view and my personal experience using these devices with Pulseaudio on a Debian/Linux machine, your experience may vary a lot. I kept on rambling about my headset and got asked for my personal impressions, I thought this could be reason enough to write a short personal review for my blog.
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