Remote Pairing with External Mic and Speakers
Using external mic and speakers has made remote pairing much nicer for me. I work in a home office where the noise does not bother other people. The biggest benefit for me is just a more natural feeling, less "tethered" if you will. I have never had feedback or echo issues and my pairs usually can't tell the difference in sound quality vs. when I wear a headset.
The mic is a Blue Snowball and the speakers are a Bose SoundDock, but I don't really recommend that unit -- it works, but it's too bass-heavy. Thus I don't have specific speakers to recommend, other than to say choose speakers that have a balanced sound; that probably means spending more than $10.
Notice in the video that my pair isn't wearing headphones, either. He also has a Snowball mic and good speakers and you can hear him just fine without too much background noise. Though he is working in a crowded office environment he can still use external speakers because, when they are not crappy internal computer speakers, my speech sounds like any other person talking and not a "annoying computer voice."
