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Taking calls out loud without a headset, on a desk with no room for speakers

Cyber Acoustics CA-2890BT Speaker Bar

Neither a speaker pair nor a headset but the thing between them: a bar that clamps under the monitor, carries its own microphone with a mute button, and holds a USB connection to the computer and a Bluetooth connection to your phone at the same time, switching between them on its own. It costs the desk nothing in footprint, which no stereo pair here can say. The trade is in the spec sheet and it is not small — the output is mono.

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Pros

  • ✓ Built-in microphone with a mute button and an LED, so calls happen out loud with nothing on your head — the middle ground between the speakers and the headsets in this subcategory
  • ✓ Holds USB to the computer and Bluetooth 5.0 to a phone simultaneously and switches between them by itself, rather than asking you to re-pair
  • ✓ Clamps to the underside of a monitor, so it occupies no desk at all — the Amazon Basics pair fits under a monitor, this one hangs from it
  • ✓ Plug and play with nothing to install, and a USB-A to USB-C converter is in the box for laptops short on USB-A
  • ✓ Touch controls cover source switching, play and pause, volume and mic mute in one strip
  • ✓ 4.4★ and a top-ten seller in Amazon's Computer Speakers, with setup running 27 positive mentions and none negative

Cons

  • – The output is mono. Amazon's spec table states it plainly, and it is the thing to settle before anything else — every other speaker in this subcategory is a stereo pair, and one bar cannot place sound left and right however good it sounds
  • – 735 ratings, against 74,270 for the Logitech H390 and 81,688 for the Amazon Basics pair. The theme breakdowns run in the tens rather than the thousands, so read them as indicative rather than settled
  • – Connectivity is the weakest theme at 17 negative of 41 mentions — awkward for a device whose selling point is holding two connections at once
  • – The listing contradicts itself on power: the bullets claim 5W output, the spec table says 10 watts maximum. Either figure makes it the quietest thing in this subcategory
  • – One-year warranty, where the Logitech, Razer and JIAMQISHI headsets all carry two
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Cyber Acoustics CA-2890BT Speaker Bar

Taking calls out loud without a headset, on a desk with no room for speakers

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