(NEW) Poly Voyager Focus 2 UC Headset with Stand

Are you tethered to your desk all day and need a solid pair of headphones with excellent voice quality over a mic? Poly Voyager Focus 2s offer all that and immeasurably improved voice quality over competitors, like WH-1000MX5s, which are forced to use low-quality, terrible mic quality in hands-free mode because of Windows 10 and 11 driver limitations. Hands-free headphones without a dedicated mic, like Jabra or Poly, have absolutely rotten quality that's unuseable for recordings, Teams voice chats, and basic use.I've put Poly Voyager Focus 2s up against the Jabra Evolve2 65s, and the Jabras got sent back. That was after a sad fail on the WH-1000MX5s that had beautiful sound and horrendous voice quality.THE GOODHoly cats, these things work easily right out of the box. Turn them on and bam, my Windows 11 laptop immediately picked them up without hesitation. Connecting to other Bluetooth devices was effortless. It synced up beautifully with MS Teams and my coworkers reported excellent voice and sound quality lacking in my previous set of $200 headphones.Poly's over-ear design is comfortable and great for long-term wear. I am extremely leery of rotating headphone designs (Jabra Evolve 65s consistently break for me on the boom) but the construction seems to be better and sturdier with an unfortunate rotating pivot. Time will tell if they hold up to daily but gentle use. The boom's solid construction and great placement avoid getting entangled in long hair, earrings or literally in your mouth from unfortunate design (hi Jabra). I love the feature of auto-mute when I push the boom up.Recording quality has been excellent when using Articulate, Camtasia, Captivate, SnagIt, and Adobe products. It's had little issue adapting for different sound volumes or programs.Poly excels in noise cancellation and the Voyagers are great. While *I* hear the garbage man outside while my landscaper's mowers and blowers are running loud enough to be heard two provinces over, my coworkers claimed not to hear a thing. While I could still hear the general roar of noise outside, if muted somewhat by whatever noise cancelling these have, they didn't and that was important.These keep a long charge. The tilted stand isn't my favourite but it's a good design that rarely falls over and the headset charges very quickly. It uses a single side input between the earpiece and the headset itself, so I'm not sure how long-term durability will be on that.Suggestion: Make sure to keep the Poly dongle in the USB port for maximized call quality and clarity. I've not tried the headset much without them, but it makes a significant difference for range and quality.THE BADThe one- or two-second pause when the Poly headphones sync up with my laptop's sound. This has challenges when I'm doing fine-tuned audio work, like cropping sound tracks, and requires me to either leave longer pauses in my recording or flip to another headset for that portion of the work. I haven't found a way to overcome this setting.OVERALL: 4.5 stars