Plantronics BT600 Network Adapter (205250-01)

I purchased this li'l device ahead of receiving a set of Plantronics BackBeat PRO 2 Special Edition wireless headphones that I finally pulled the trigger on. It sat in my desk drawer, waiting for the headphones to arrive, while I set up my computer with a number of sound output options and bluetooth adapters to test the headphones with, once they got here (integrated motherboard sound, USB soundcard, PCIe sound card, and several types of analog input bluetooth transmitters). D-Day arrived, and I charged the headphones, and used a 26.5 minute .flac file for the musical selection to test-out direct connections to each different sound hardware output that I had configured on my machine. Good sound--darned good--particularly in rounding-out the low-end of the audio spectrum. The headphones are definite keepers. The sound processors that I have configured with this computer all produced very good sound, and the stack ranking falls out with the PCIe card leading the pack, and the USB sound card coming in just about neck-and-neck with the motherboard integrated sound; with the nod going to the USB sound card, which is 5 years newer than the sound hardware on the motherboard. With my baseline established, it's onward to the testing of the various means of routing sound through some bluetooth audio transmitters... I disabled my motherboard sound hardware in BIOS setup, and bootstrapped the OS (Debian Linux 9.4), then plugged the BT-600 into a rear USB 3.0 connector. After logging-in, I found the BT-600 detected by the OS as "Plantronics BT600 Analog Stereo". 'LSUSB -v' delivers more information than most folks want, but I saw what I wanted to see at Bus 010 Device 005: ID 047f:02f7: Debian was more than well acquainted with the device, and knows what to do with it. Suffice it to say that it is detected as a USB-connected soundcard, and the bluetooth interface is external to the OS entirely--your bluetooth receivers are the only things that have to worry about listening to what comes out of the soundcard. I skipped testing against the motherboard sound hardware, as well as the USB soundcard, and stuck with using the PCIe soundcard, routed through the various bluetooth transmitters that I had lined-up for comparison. This made it easy for me because, all I had to do was to pair the headphones with one transmitter, then with the BT-600, and switch between the two in my Master Channel Selection pane. I went through all 8 devices (7 bluetooth transmitters plus the BT-600) and was surprised to find that the BT-600, talking to the Plantronics headphones, was nearly on par with a direct connection between the PCIe soundcard and the headphones, and blew every one of the bluetooth audio transmitters that I tested it against out of the water. The .flac that I used for testing / comparison is a very full-range composition that contains melodic vocal performances in Sanskrit. Poor performance from audio hardware usually means that the nuances of the language are lost. In such cases, it's easy to mistake the exact pronunciation of the words in the performance. With this device, I am pleasantly surprised to find that all aspects of the sung words are perfectly reproduced, leaving no mistake as to the content of the performance. I honestly am VERY impressed with this little thing, and will be getting more to pop into the other computers that I use on a daily basis. Now, the BT-600 is not supplied with the specific headphones I purchased (Plantronics BackBeat PRO 2 Special Edition) but functions exactly as it is supposed to, offering red, blue and violet indicators, as appropriate to the mode of operation at any instant. For those wishing to obtain additional documentation on this product, you may want to visit the Plantronics website and search up the Getting Started guide for this product (Amazon won't permit me to post the link to help you out finding it, but it does exist).

I purchased the Plantronics BT600 Network Adapter (205250-01) after losing the original USB for my Plantronics headset, and it works flawlessly. Setup was quick and easy, and the connection is stable with excellent sound quality. It performed above my expectations and feels just like the original adapter. Great replacement product—I’m very happy with this purchase.

Works great. I lost my other receiver and was so happy to find this online. Now I am able to use my wireless headset again.

As a Linux user you always have to be mindful of compatibility and whether it will require significant work and hacks to function. You are wasting your time if you attempt to connect a plantronics headset to Linux. This dongle is perfect and works out of the box. The color coded bands really help while lecturing my class on Zoom. It even changes color when earpiece is on mute. It is expensive, but nothing else will work as well. Also, the charging case has a slot for the dongle. Excellent design.

Mostly good however the installation instructions are incorrect. It says to put the adapter into the USB port and wait for the computer to recognize the adapter. However, you have to pair the adapter with your headset (steps 2 and 3) before the computer will recognize the device (step 1). Also, Poly support told me that the BT600 won't work with my Voyager 5200 headset. That I need to buy the more expensive BT700. This is also incorrect as it works fine with my Voyager 5200.

Worked had a poly headset that I lost the dongle for so I ordered this one better sound and range then the original

Lured into this purchase because of the reviews on Amazon. The representations of simplicity to "pair" with a Plantronics 5200 Headset was the plan, and that the sound quality would be great. Both of these goals turned out to be more difficult to achieve. After several attempts, pairing was accomplished. Okay. Continuing problem is that the sound quality is unacceptable: replete with "snaps and clicks" like static for which I can find no workaround. Even worse, connections are frequently dropped. I purchased this in the hope that it would facilitate "virtual" class sessions that I am contracted to teach. The performance with the Plantronics Journey 5200 is unacceptable and for that it resides unused in a drawer after a few wasted hours trying to reach acceptable operation. After some years of guidance via Amazon ratings, this is the first experience where my reality is the opposite and it is very disappointing.

This works brilliantly to allow my to use by Plantronics Legend BT headset with the PC so that I can to Skype and Jabber calls. It even turns red when I hit the mute button on the headset. To pair you need to press a very small pairing button on the device. Once you find that and put in pairing mode, the pairing process completes seamlessly. My only complaint about this device is the price -- $50+ is too high for what this does, even though it does it very well.

Allows me to use my voyager 5200 on the laptop effortlessly

Amazing device to connect plantronics with laptop.

A pesar de que muchas computadoras tienen sistemas de Bluetooth, el problema es utilizar todo el software de comunicación de la computadora con los manos libres de Plantronics. Este pequeño transmisor-receptor permite utilizar Skype, WebEx y demás herramientas de video y audio conferencia de manera integral además de vincularse también al teléfono celular. El rango aumenta de 3 metros para el Bluetooth normal, a 30 metros, por lo que es posible tener la computadora en el escritorio mientras se realizan otras actividades y se atiende una llamada al mismo tiempo. Se debe usar también el software de Plantronics en la computadora para recibir actualizaciones y asegurar la integración de todos los componentes. Este no es un producto para todo el público, está orientado especialmente a aquellos que cuentan con una oficina móvil y necesitan integrar sus comunicaciones a través de la computadora. Es necesario comprar también un manos libres como el 5200 de Plantronics. Una característica interesante es que el estuche del 5200 tiene un compartimiento integrado para almacenar este adaptador. Me gustaría que fuera más pequeño de manera que se ocultara en el puerto USB, sin embargo hay que recordar que es una antena y por tanto no es posible reducir su tamaño hasta ese extremo. Un excelente producto que recomendaría sin dudar.

Easy to setup, pairs quickly using instructions. Distance isn't great but connection is decent

Works well but, you must do the footwork of keeping up with the updates.