To test the Genius BT-03A Bluetooth Stereo Headset I thought that I would try a large variety of things, from attaching it to my PSP and going for a walk, wearing it while I work in my shop, syncing it to my Voiis Bluetooth Stereo, which is connected to my TV’s audio output, and connecting it to a Blackberry Storm. Throughout all of this I will be using it for a variety of uses. I will be using them for gaming, watching movies and TV, using them as a hands-free headset for talking, but mostly for listening to music.

Well let’s start where I normally start and that’s with the hands-free function. For this I found that when making a call with the Genius BT-03A Bluetooth Stereo Headset the voice was nice and clear and easy to understand. However I found that calling someone that was wearing them was a little different, while they were very clear I found that the voice was very soft and a little on the quite side, so I would say it’s not the kind of head set that you want to be wearing to the mall, but people might look at you funny with you just talking to your headphones anyways. I do have to say that the easy, one touch ability to accept incoming calls was a nice function.

Bass:

For music I found that the Genius BT-03A Bluetooth Stereo Headset worked great while having more bass depth then I thought they would have, don’t get me wrong they're not like high end “can” style headphones for bass depth, just more than I thought they would have.

Mids and Highs:

For vocals I found that they were good and clear, I found that I was realizing that I never heard the correct words to songs that I thought I knew well. When it came to mid-range such as guitar I found that it wasn’t as clear as it could have been, I still enjoyed using the headset, and I just felt that they fell short of being as clear as they could have been in this area.

TV/Movies:

For TV and movies I found them to work great. For action oriented movies I found that it didn’t feel as epic and intense as I enjoy but still felt that they worked really well in this area. While using the Genius BT-03A I found that I picked up on things that I hadn’t noticed before. Such as when ground and walls where getting shot up and being able to hear bits of gravel landing on the ground, and hearing people talking in the background and other subtle sounds such as this. For everything else I found that the sound was clear and functioned well across a large variety of genres.

Gaming:

For gaming I have to say that it was downright awesome. The sound I got was loud and clear and I found it to be quite enjoyable. I mainly used them while playing fallout 3, and in particular the new “the Pitt” expansion. While playing, I prefer the sneaky rouge type character; I found that everything felt intense. While sneaking around trying to creep up on Trogs I never had noticed how much noise I was making and how well I could find the little buggers by listening to the subtle noises that they would make as they walked about and ate. Whenever someone would find me, I found that the gun shots rang out nice and clear and added a sense of urgency and feeling that I was the character while being shot and hearing bullets wiz past my head. For this I have to say that I felt they worked great.

 Ease Of Use:

While going for a walk I found that they worked alright. While I had to rearrange which pocket my PSP was in to get a clear signal, I still found that they worked just fine. Being able to walk about without the cable that would normally connect to the audio device flapping around was quite enjoyable and felt that anybody that jogs would really enjoy the ability of not having this stupid cable in the way.

Range:

Something else I had tried was connecting the Genius BT-03A Bluetooth Stereo Headset to my Voiis Stereo in order to see what kind of range I could get with these little guys. Whenever I used the provided dongle I found that I got not much more than 15' away but with the voiis Stereo I was able to get up to 60' away with a broken line of site.

Now let’s get to my final thoughts: