Poly Voyager Surround 80 UC Headset

£249.49

The Poly Voyager Surround 80 UC Headset is designed to deliver comfort and great sound experiences to help you stay productive, whether you’re working from the office or from a coffee shop. With dynamic drivers to deliver great sound, and a plethora of microphones for calls and ANC, the Poly Voyager Surround 80 US Headset is a great headset, designed to help you stay focused with hours of great audio quality.  

When you first open the box for the Poly Voyager Surround 80 UC Headset, you are met with the travel carry case, which has a hard shell to protect your headphones. Inside, the headphones are made from carbon fibre, with metal extenders for each side. The inside of the ear cups and headband are covered in a lovely leather-look material, which is cushioned to provide a comfortable feel across your ears and head whilst wearing. The ear cups provide a wide range of movement, which allows you to perfectly adjust and manoeuvre each ear cup to sit over your ear comfortably. I like the overall sleek and minimalist design the headset offers, whilst still being super comfortable to wear for many hours at a time. 

However, arguably the most important thing when it comes to headphones is the sound they put out, and the Poly Voyager Surround 80 UC Headset is impressive. The headphones feature 40 mm drivers that help deliver a high-quality and rich sound, perfect for both calls and listening to music. This high-quality audio, when paired with the over-ear design, allows you to create your own personal bubble to stay focused and productive. However, with calls being one of the central focuses when it comes to the design of the Poly Voyager 80 UC Headset, the audio quality for calls is top-notch, reinforced by 6 built-in boomless microphones that ensure both ends of the call are clear. In fact, the headset is certified to work with the Microsoft Teams App, and so Poly has designed the headphones with an instant access button to Microsoft Teams built into the ear cup. This control ensures you can get straight into your calls with ease and remain productive during the day.

Alongside the Microsoft Teams instant access button, the headphones also feature innovative touch controls which allow you to pause, play, adjust your volume and change tracks with a simple tap or swipe of your finger across the ear cup. These controls are super intuitive to use, with a tap pausing and playing your music, swipes up and down to change the volume, and then swipes back and forth to change tracks forward and back. This adds a lovely premium touch to the headphones and ensures you don’t need to control your audio via your phone or computer, where you could easily get distracted. Instead, you tap or swipe and can continue to be productive and focused.  

I like that the headphones feature active noise cancellation (ANC) to help maintain a productive working bubble. The headphones feature an adaptive ANC that utilises an additional 4 microphones to help adjust the level of noise cancellation needed in response to external noise. This means that the headphones are designed to help keep outside noise out, and your music or calls clear. This is perfect for particularly noisy offices, or even for using whilst commuting or travelling. I was super impressed with the level of noise cancellation, and if you’re someone who is easily distracted, these are a brilliant choice to block the world out and help you focus on whatever task you need to do.

Furthermore, to help you stay productive, the headphones feature a good battery life of up to 24 hours for listening to music and 21 hours for calls. This means that you never have to worry about recharging mid-way through the day and instead can stay productive for calls and workflow. However, when you do need to charge, the headphones come with a USB-C to USB-A charging cable and a USB-C to 3.5mm audio cable, so you can plug these into your pc to charge and stay connected.

Overall, the Poly Voyager Surround 80 UC Headset provides a premium headphone experience that is focused on helping you stay productive. These would be the perfect gift for someone who works from home and attends a lot of Microsoft Teams meetings to help enhance their set-up and ensure that they have a pair of headphones designed to ensure they can be heard clearly over calls, whilst also offering great sound quality for music. The adaptive ANC is a nice touch and means that the headphones can even be used away from the office for casual everyday music listening, for when you need a peaceful bubble.

Pros:

• Carbon fibre design that is lightweight but super comfortable to wear
• Intuitive touch and swipe controls for easy navigation without needing your phone
• Adaptive ANC to block out the noise around you easily
• 6 built-in microphones to ensure calls are clear and professional

Cons:

• Designed with Microsoft Teams in mind, so they may not be as ideal if you don’t use this for calls, as the instant access button will not be super useful for you – but as a generally good set of headphones, which are enhanced for calls, it's still a great all-around headset