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by fwsgonzo 1921 days ago
Sennheiser headsets tend to have a mechanical switch on the microphone arm that turns it on and off when you swing it. I like that part enough that I only buy those headsets now. I'm not sure if they continue the practice these days.
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I'm wearing one right now. I agree this is a handy feature.

It has two down-sides:

1. Muting the mic involves touching/moving the mic, so you make some noise when trying to discretely mute/unmute.

2. It mutes, but doesn't tell Zoom that it's muted, so you can appear to be unmuted to others on the call. I'd rather die than be falsely accused of having a dog bark interrupt a call from MY mic!