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- First reviewJune 14, 2012
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Enjoy your favorite music while you bike or hit the gym with these Jaybird X2 wireless headphones, which feature a Bluetooth interface for wireless streaming and SignalPlus technology for clear, smooth playback. Comply ear tips offer a comfortable fit.
Posted by: yourbrokenoven
from Madisonville, LA
Pro: bought on sale. they look nice. They come with a case. Several sizes of earfins and buds. Fairly simple to set up.
Cons: my first set would not charge.
My second has a very audible whine when connected. Play a song and pause it. You'll see what I mean. Didn't matter what app, the noise is there and very distracting.
No matter what earbuds or fins I use, they won't stay in my ears.
Poor range. They disconnect or lose quality when only a few feet away from my phone.
They don't come with their own charger or a charging dock or anything useful like that. Just a 1 foot long flat micro USB cable.
My Best Buy number: 0541052834
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No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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With IPS technology, a 4 ms GTG response time and 2560 x 1440 resolution, this BenQ GW2765HT LED monitor displays movies, Web content and games in brilliant clarity. Zero Flicker and Low Blue Light technologies help ensure comfortable viewing.
Customer Rating
5
Phenomenal value. Very pretty monitor.
on August 15, 2015
Posted by: yourbrokenoven
from Madisonville, LA
I was giving this monitor its first test run while playing Plants Vs Zombies: Garden Warfare (A very vibrant, colorful game) admiring what I thought was a pretty nice picture and my wife walked in and said, "Oh! Wow. You did a really REALLY good job with this monitor, baby." And that's all I needed to know. I mean, yes, I thought it looked a great deal better than the old Samsung Syncmaster 305T (which just started dying again after I reflowed the solder and revived it for the third time about 10 months ago), but I was very happy to hear exactly how much better it looked from another point of view.
This monitor offers DVI, HDMI, and Display Port. Also has built-in speakers which I will never use. Height adjustment and tilt are present and offer plenty range of motion in my opinion (don't know the precise degrees of motion). The swivel goes around almost, but not quite exactly 360 degrees. I have no idea why I'd ever need that, but hey, maybe someone would.
Very very bright compared to my old syncmaster, which I still thought was bright. I've read the colors are accurate, but I have no way of testing this, nor do I really have an eye for it without a side-by-side. Contrast is great as well. Again, just subjective opinion here compared with an old syncmaster (and an even older 19" Acer monitor, possibly 10 years old).
If I had the money, I'd definitely buy a couple more of these and set up a 3-screen gaming machine with Dual graphics, etc, etc, etc.
If I had a nice webcam, I'd set this monitor up as a mirror. That's how good I think it looks. Okay, I probably wouldn't, but you get the idea. This monitor is sharp and vibrant.
Other thoughts: The product page here on bestbuy.com is pretty horrible. I recommend looking up reviews and photos on other websites to get a better idea of what this product is capable of. In any case, I strongly recommend this monitor from my own experience and based on other reviews I'm probably not allowed to link to from here.
My Best Buy number: 0541052834
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Enhance the acoustic quality of your favorite games with this ASTRO Gaming A40 3AH42-PSX9N-381 over-the-ear gaming headset, which features 40mm drivers and neodynamic magnets that deliver immersive, lifelike sound.
Customer Rating
4
Good for gaming, bad for movies.
on December 20, 2013
Posted by: yourbrokenoven
from Madisonville, LA
I own a pair of A40's and the wireless mixamp 5.8. This review focuses on the headphones and the wired mixamp. First of all, these headphones seem very well built and durable. They come with a very nice semi-hard case. The pull tab on the zipper on mine broke after only a month. I put a keyring through the hole on the zipper mechanism to fix this. I almost forgot that it isn't supposed to be like this. The zipper track is way too stiff for such a flimsy pull tab. Chat quality is great. The mixamp is wonderful. You can easily adjust levels of chat volume and game volume. These things can get nice and loud. Unfortunately, the headphones are not true surround sound and use some form of emulation which works well for gaming, but produces a horrible echo during movies and TV that renders these headphones unusable for anything BUT gaming. If that's all you plan to do with them, more power to you, but if you want to listen to movies and have them sound as if they're being played inside an old concrete building, I think you could find a better solution. I believe you can buy the mixamp separately, and some high quality headphones come with detachable cables. Radio Shack sells a very good quality cable with built-on boom mic that I also own and would recommend.
Overall, I like my A40's for gaming, but I regret the price I paid for a one-trick-pony. I really wish there was a way to turn off surround emulation for movies without digging into console system settings.
Other thoughts: One could perhaps accomplish the above by running these through a surround stereo's optical port and simply pressing whatever button puts the receiver back into stereo mode.
My Best Buy number: 0541052834
What's great about it: Build quality, packaging
What's not so great: high price, a mess of cables, average sound quality
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
Durability
4
Ease of Use
4
Quality
4
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Enhance your entertainment experience with this Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 8350 V11H373120 projector, which features 3LCD technology, as well as up to 2300 lumens of color brightness and up to 2300 lumens of white brightness, for sharp detail.Not sure what size projector or screen you need? Learn more.
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from Madisonville, LA
I shopped around online for several days. Best Buy seemed to have the best price for the projectors I was comparing. I was originally considering an Optima for right at a grand, but the salesman suggested an open-box item at a discounted price, so I decided to go with this projector which uses a 3 LCD technology, and from what I've read, this was the better buy. The lamp only had 30 hours, but it seems that it is dreadfully easy to reset the lamp hour counter in the menu, but for the discount, I think it's worth it. The menu is very easy to navigate. Lens-shifting is very useful when you can't exactly center the device. Best of all, I can produce a 94" screen in a room only 10' wide. Consider that the projector Lens itself is about 18" away from the wall behind it; this thing is really nice, even in a small room. (Just remember that it will make the room a lot warmer.) My fiance and I built our own screen from slightly modified instructions we found on projectorcentral.com. Blu-ray looks incredible on this thing. Xbox 360 and PS3 gaming is an incredible experience. More people should consider a projector.
What's great about it: Bright, with great black levels. Easy to use. Beautiful HD picture. Blu-Ray looks incredible at 94"
What's not so great: The unit itself is big; twice the size of others. It noticably heats the 10' x 12' room, even with fan on and door open.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Ease of Use
5
Features
5
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