KPH30 Wireless

I bought a pair of Koss KPH30 wireless headphones to use as general purpose for work and home. I’m on a lot of zoom calls, so that means I’d like to use the Bluetooth mic; but there seems to be a firmware bug that breaks switching between HFP/HSP and A2DP mode. If I record with software, it works the first time. When I stop, I hear a beep in the headphones. After that, I can't record audio from the headphones without power cycling them. This is true with voice memos on iOS, quicktime on macOS, and Zoom on macOS. Calls appear unaffected. I could get it to break in voice memos on iOS, then immediately make a phone call and the other side could hear me. I’ve contacted Koss support. They quickly sent me a replacement pair, assuming it was a defect in my specific headset. But the problem occurs with both sets. I suspect that most people who buy these headphones don’t use the mic much, particularly outside of phone calls. But if you have a set, can you try it out and check if you see the same behavior?

I have a pair of soundcore Q30 that have never had a problem. They're also able to dynamically switch between two devices, too, which the KPH30 can't. I can accept that. But I can't accept the microphone just turning itself off forever for no reason. You say "this kind of switching." I'm not switching anything. I pair the headphones with a computer. I use zoom. I close the zoom call. I use zoom again: no input.

Porta Pro Wireless and KPH30 Wireless have audio pass through so you even if the battery takes a shit you can still use them for the rest of eternity as if they were the wired version. Will only buy bluetooth headphones that can do this.

Koss kph30 wireless. I returned $900 headphones to keep the Koss.

Yes kph 40, you can easily change earpads if desired. Very good sound and featherweight. Under $40. Portapro and kph 30i too. Kph 30 wireless if you don't like wired. For much better sound and a step up in quality: Grado 80x and Sennheiser 560s. Comfortable and light but not like the Koss.

Why the hell not? A wireless mouse is great, the cable on a wired mouse snags and is a pita, when I have to charge my mouse it's annoying having it tethered. A keyboard less so, because it doesn't really move, but it makes my desk less cluttered, and means I can put my PC wherever I want without worrying too much about cables. The same goes for headphones, I use wired most of the time, but often I'll put my wireless headphones on, go make a cup of tea, check on the dogs etc, often I'll be on my headset walking around the house while on a meeting, or even just reclining my chair and relaxing a little in my office. Or even just going out for a walk with headphones without having to block the outside world, or deal with the thumping noise in your ear when stepping. I go out with my portapros and btr3k all the time, it's a great combo. For OP, maybe the new Koss kph30 wireless would work?

The AirPods aren’t going to be usable, even with a dongle. They have too much latency. Apple doesn’t support low latency on non-Apple devices. It looks like the Bose QC Ultra support aptx, so you could get an aptx dongle and potentially use those. But wired is going to be the cheapest and easiest solution with the least amount of latency. The earbuds in the box are fine, I’d definitely try those first before going out and spending more money. Another cheap option that sounds good and fits over the headset are the Koss KPH30.

Koss KSC75/KPH30/KPH40/Porta Pro all all within that $20-40 range but they aren't as durable. I believe the cables like to break on these because they are thin and lack stress relief. Alternatively you could go Samson SR850 or Superlux HD661 but those are only semi-open so outside sounds are slightly damped. To be honest I don't think open backs make people quieter, once you got some audio playing it kind of blocks out ambient noise. At least I assume thats why you want open backs in this case. For the record, Koss headphones sound VERY open, but again these things break with careful adults so you can imagine what children can do. On that note, can anyone seeing this back up the claim that the KPH30 clear is less prone to snapping than the other KPH30 models?