| Written by Lennie,
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Favoured : 79 |
I liked them from the first sight. They look great with these silver and black colors. Moreover, the over-the-head design is my favorite. Maybe futuristic in some way, but trendy and very comfortable albeit not very lightweight headset – one can wear it for a long period of time. Fits perfectly (though they will be TOO tight for persons with bigger heads). The length of the headband is adjustable, and the earpads are also adjustable in several ways due to the swinging joins. They can be folded in some way to make a storage and transportation easier. Wearing them, I looked stylish and at last nobody made fun of me. 
Pairing
The pairing is easy. You can use the Pulsar with a mobile phone and with a music source simultaneously, in order not to miss calls when music is playing, and afterwards to return to the music. For mobile phones, the headset supports such functions as starting, rejecting and ending calls, voice dialing (if it is available on your phone), last number redial and mute. Thanks to MS Voice Commander software you won't need to search for your phone in your bag anytime you need to talk to someone. Sound 
All the users agree, that the Pulsar stereo sound is excellent. Bass is profound, middles are great, maybe sometimes some hiss in the highs can be noticed. It can be so, that sound is not always clear just because all the drawbacks of a song with lower bitrate are revealed at once. A contrast between 96 and 224 kbps is clearly noticeable. However, a song with 192 kbps made me tremble with delight. No skipping will annoy you, you'll never notice the common glitches of wireless headphones. An excellent range (12 m according to our tests) makes you feel more free than ever. Pros&Cons
However, the user opinion of phone mode is different. Some people say that the sound of phone calls is muffled and not free from static, others praise the loudness of voice and filtering of background noise. The microphone is rather freaky, you have to slide it out of the pad (as the manual says: “Point tip of telescoping voice tube toward mouth and extend for optimal voice transmission - may require two hands”), and in so doing to apply some pressure – but it looks so brittle! It seems that it is made of glass and will crumble in your fingers. The biggest disadvantage is a fragile plastic of area around screws. Our headset has been broken on both sides of the headband in several places, but we manage to repair it with glue. Many users reported the same problem with this plastic housing prone to cracking. 
Controls
The headset supports AVRCP profile. The buttons are situated on the right earpiece. They are quite handy, and after some practice you won't confuse Pause/Start and Call buttons (as I did in haste), which are two small circlets in the center. Around the central disk a LED circle is located, it looks nice but appears to be too big and too bright with its blue flashing in a dark place. The LED is surrounded by Next/Previous track and Volume up/down buttons. Also there is a separate Power on/off button. What I didn't like in controls is the beeping I hear when adjusting volume or changing tracks. I don't think such beeping is necessary, in addition it creates a feeling that I'm doing something wrong, even if I know everything is OK. Adapter The package contains a Universal Bluetooth Adapter (only if it is 590 A), which is the dongle that allows to use non-Bluetooth devices with the headset as the Bluetooth ones. This adapter is rather big, and it is not very funny to carry all these gadgets along. It is easy-to-use only indoors with TV set, PC or DVD player. A 3.5mm jacked cable can be used in airplane, though it disables all the controls and microphone. You may put everything in a hard case and bring it with you everywhere. Also there is a USB cable, AC charger and desktop stand. Charging 
The headset has three ways of charging. The first one is via the desktop charging stand, handy and stylish. The second is via USB charging cable, and the third is using an AC wall charger, which allows simultaneous charging of the headset and the Universal Adapter. While charging, the indicator flashes red, and when the battery is already full, it becomes solid blue. As our tests show, you should be able to listen to music for 11 hours running. The Pulsar 590 E is almost the same headset, but the package contains no Universal Adapter, which makes the purchase more bearable for your purse. As it seemed to me, among positive comments the 590 A ranks first. In spite of still facing some problems, users consider this headset to be nearly the best choice.
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