EPOS I SENNHEISER ADAPT 260 - Headset - on-ear - Bluetooth - wireless - USB - black - Certified for Microsoft Teams, Optimised for UC - for ADAPT 230, 231, 261

Product Information

The headsets are optimised for UC use and are Microsoft Teams certified. A dedicated button the headset allows the user to launch Teams on a connected computer when the USB dongle is used. Firmware and headphone management can be updated via the EPOS Manager and EPOS Connect software.

EPOS Adapt 260 review: An extremely agile headset that is

The LED flashes 2 times blue as soon as the headset finds a device to connect to. The LED turns off. Press and hold the dongle's button and the headset's power button until the LEDs alternatively flashes blue and red. Once the dongle and the headset are connected, the dongle lights up dimmed blue. Enable Bluetooth on your mobile device and start the search for Bluetooth devices – see instruction manual of your mobile device. But we’d missed one tiny image on the product notes that indicated that the speaker elements could move in a groove on the inside of the band.

Maybe they’re not the most comfortable cans we’ve worn, but they’re good in enough ways to easily justify this expenditure.

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After we’d bathed in its design aesthetic, we noticed a few interesting choices that EPOS made that run counter to what we’ve seen elsewhere. The strengths of this design are the excellent battery life, Microsoft Teams certification and how they’ve been optimised for UC. With both these standards in play, they should work well with most conferencing applications and softphones without requiring much effort on the part of the user. Using the provided Bluetooth dongle, the headset is automatically connected once you insert that into a running system and power them on. The power button is also the Bluetooth pairing button, so if you need to pair it to a different adapter, you can initiate that process with the same button.

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It's difficult to determine if the limited upper range is a bi-product of processing for voice clarity, but that looks like a likely scenario. These things said, listening to music on these isn’t a bad experience, but it isn’t one that audiophiles would run to embrace either. There are few aspects of these Adapt 260 that we need to discuss under the banner of useability. Let’s start with how easy they are to use.