The other day I needed to get me some new headphones, and I needed some ASAP. Might seem odd but I work from home and I am on Google Hangouts quite a bit with my team in Atlanta. I, however, live in a small town in Texas. In this tiny town, the best chance to find anything like this is Walmart. That is really all we have. So I walked through their small electronic section and found these headphones for around $70 bucks.When I am buying headphones for my computer I really want a decent quality and I have some basic criteria that I normally look for.
Criteria
- Must fit comfortably around ears not to press my ears down.
- Must not clamp to tightly to my head.
- USB Connection, no phono plugs.
- Microphone built in.
- Cross-Platform operating system use.
- Hopefully cheap.
These headphones seemed to meet my criteria so I bought them and ripped open the box plugged them in and attempted to get on Google hangouts for my next call. Voila, it worked on my Macbook without issue. I did not need to install a thing. I am officially a happy camper again, and I can talk and hear and everything is right again going to work. Once done with my calls I wanted to see if it was just as good connecting to my other machines. I tried my Windows, Ubuntu and even Chromebook. All were good. No drivers needed.
Fast forward a couple weeks. I have been using them for a while and things still sound good but on both sides right beside the slide to change the size and fitting the plastic breaks. On both sides. I am really frustrated because I like the sound and quality of the headphones but the construction isn't holding up. I ended up taking some aluminum strapping and some black electrical tape and lashed the joint to the size I wanted. This ended up working nicely and everything is still very functional. So far no more issues and call quality is good. It is just a shame that they didn't hold up to begin with.
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