Sound-Check Microphone
Unfortunately, I can't take the headset into the Chamber and measure it, because with Bluetooth the connection to the audio source unfortunately ends because the chamber is a real cage and the digital wave salad is almost completely locked out and remains. In the end, all I have left is my ear, which should be well trained enough. Whereby – with the microphone, the result is so clear that anyone can certainly hear it. What is striking first is that the first word of the recording is missing.
This is where the noise cancellation or Switch off mercilessly and during the phone conversation you should say hello twice after losing weight, so that at least one of them arrives. The microphone input with its 8-bit and 16 KHz is already very limited, but in addition you can hear various frequency erasures, hovering and even modulation products, which should not be like this. The following piece has been recorded out-of-the-box and you can also hear how hacked the communication could be in the worst case scenario:
The microphone is designed in this form, including the "power-on crack" when starting the communication or admission as rather below average. It is enough for a phone call, but unfortunately all this does not sound really professional. Here there is a rather large gap between entitlement, given opportunities and the called price. What a pity.
Sound-Check Playback
The whole thing sounds much better than your own microphone when it comes to a slightly limited voice reproduction (talk mode) of phone calls. There is even something like joy here, because the comprehensibility can be described as good to very good throughout. So you can book this with peace of mind on the credit side. I would even go so far here, and classify it as the most important criterion besides the microphone, because the headset is primarily intended for working and communicating.
The music playback is not even bad, even if due to the lack of good codecs, a real hi-fi playback is of course eliminated. What you really hear is still acceptable even in the bass range, even if the real low bass is naturally missing and the overall level strength is rather narrow. But you can listen to music with it and both the bass, the upper bass and the lower middles even give a pleasant abundance. The basic frequency of the male and female vocals as well as most instruments are correct, this is not self-evident.
The upper mids and heights are quite usable up to the super high tone, even if the stage is quite narrow and the spatial assignment at several sources is already exhausting. The recognition of the individual sound sources and their characteristics is given, even if the last precision is completely missing here. At least the voice recognition succeeds quite neatly, which should also be the goal of such a headset.
So you can leave music, so that's possible as an intermediate sound system at the workplace, even if the final touch is of course missing (also due to design). You can't expect a real punch from the basement anyway, especially since the battery life is already tight. So you should approach it a little more leisurely anyway and leave the equalizer better left. You also get the bass a little more concise, which can quickly lead to distortions and empty battery. So it's better to just leave everything as it is.
Software
The app for the smartphone is somewhat rudimentary and the offered equalizer should be used carefully, especially in the bass area. The control of the so-called "Side Tone" feature, i.e. the display of your own microphone for listening to one's own voice (and thus also the ambient noise for simulating an open headphones) is already at 50% by default, even without an app.
A rogue who thinks evil and tests the effect of the ANC without having previously installed an app and deactivates this feature. What the active noise cancellation can really do (or maybe not), you only notice when you set the display of the ambient noise completely to zero beforehand.
Summary and conclusion
With the Logitech Zone Wireless, light and shadow meet quite strongly. The positive thing in advance: you get a very light and well-fitting office headset with very good workmanship, functional material selection and a real long-term comfort factor. It could all be so nice, were it not the first thing that the somewhat short battery life, which hardly lasts for the entire working day of a dedicated freelancer. If you distribute QI charging bowls in the house wherever you pause, then it works.
Sound-like, the playback is quite good, which one can unfortunately not say about the voice quality of the microphone. The far too high compression of the already punished stream with a low bit rate greatly reduces the conciseness and recognizability of the voice. In addition, there is a merciless clipping and automatic fading at low levels, which sometimes even leads to chopped fragments.
The fact that the desktop app has not yet made it beyond the status of the announcement can be hurt if necessary, the fumbling micro-USB cable with the socket as a set break point as well as the missing quick-charging function counteract the targeted Office use noticeable, however. The ANC function works, although not as the best in class, with Side Tone you can include the environment and your own voice. So that fits again. Light and shadow.
For an EIA above the 200 euro mark, however, what is being offered is worth a few counter-questions in the end, and I cannot and must not bend. The recently still current street price of 160 euros certainly takes this into account, but due to the current home office trend we are already back at almost 190 euros, which is clearly a little too much. You can buy the Logitech Zone Wireless, but there are certainly better or cheaper alternatives.
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