Good to have both for different reasons.
A good wired headset can be superior to wireless mic audio when presenting or interacting.
If merely consuming, and hanging around wireless is good too.
A good wired headset can be superior to wireless mic audio when presenting or interacting.
If merely consuming, and hanging around wireless is good too.
The Actis has better microphone positioning by far, which counts for so much.
I'm interested to test the range versus the Rode, but given that I can be 3 floors away & the Actis still fine, I'd be surprised if the Rode really had shockingly better range/reliability/interference-resistance.
I continue to think there's a paranoia & level-of-concern that does not match what modern hardware can do.
I think this is related to the fact that most wireless headphones people have experience with are Bluetooth.
BT headphones have lag, and, when used in duplex mode, have terrible quality. And this lag adds to the one introduced by the conferencing software.
I've got myself a Jabra headset that communicates over DECT. This thing is spectacular. No discernible lag (as tested with games) and the mic quality is better than what I hear from people rocking Bose and Sony BT headphones. The range is great, too. Much better than what I get from my BT headphones.
I have tested a few and find the noise cancelling on the mic for the other party is awful if that's something you are looking for on far too many.
I have a Philips SHP-9000 headphone with a vmoda boom pro mic, which plugs into the 3.5mm jack on the headphones. On the other end, I sometimes attach a cheap Chinese Bluetooth receiver, which can be plugged into any 3.5mm jack, so any wired headphones can be made wireless as needed.