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by pastaguy1 1491 days ago
I have a Logitech g533 headset, which is wireless, and came with a dongle. It might be something other than Bluetooth? I paired it once when I got it 2 yrs ago and that's it.

I forget to charge it sometimes but that's on me.

I like pacing during meetings

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Yeah the ones with dongles aren't Bluetooth, I also haven't had many problems with mine which is similar. Bluetooth is pretty bad for audio+mic, it has to reduce audio quality to do both
As the other comment said, your Logitech g533 isn't bluetooth. It's using its own dongle and wireless transmission of lossless audio. No other wireless device will ever compete or try to pair with the dongle, so you can set and forget. Glad to hear you can pace happily during meetings!

In my case, I was using a Logitech bluetooth headset. When calls came in, I would need to switch the headset on, wait, hope it connects, hope Teams hadn't switched to default mic, and hope the battery was still good. I grew tired of the uncertainty and went back to a wired headset.

I don't know about that specific model, but I'd expect a "gaming" headset to attempt to have both a high-enough quality and a very low lag.

There are also DECT headsets which seem to have very low lag. Quality isn't great, but you wouldn't expect it to be given the size of the phones. But it works great for voice and has a very long range.

Speaking about non-bluetooth wireless headsets, I'm super satisfied with the corsair hs80 - the microphone sound quality is absolutely crazy and I can pace and walk around my whole apartment without any issues. Highly recommend them.