After testing more than a dozen popular headsets, we’ve found that the Jabra Evolve2 65 is the best wireless headset and the Jabra Evolve2 30 is the best wired headset.
Both offer the sound quality, comfort, and noise cancelling that professionals who spend all day on the phone want.
Our pick
Jabra Evolve2 65
With a battery that lasts for days, great microphone quality, and large, comfortably padded earcups, this wireless headset has all the features we look for.
The Jabra Evolve2 65 is easy to connect wirelessly to a computer or phone, and it offers the best range and the longest battery life of the headsets we tested.
This headset will make you sound great, too: In our brand-concealed tests, panelists praised the Evolve2 65 for vocal clarity. One expert ranked the overall sound from the microphone as the best of any headset in our test group, and the other experts ranked it as the second best overall.
The memory-foam ear cushions create a soft seal around the ears that passively blocks background noise and makes the headset pleasant to wear for hours-long stints.
However, the Evolve2 65 doesn’t offer active noise cancellation, which can help block out low-frequency sounds such as the drone of an air conditioner or the whir of a paper shredder. (For that, consider the Jabra Evolve 75 SE instead.)
Also great
Jabra Evolve 75 SE
This headset offers both active noise cancellation and the best microphone of any wireless option we’ve tested. But it has less than half the battery life of our top pick and costs a bit more.
If you prefer a headset with active noise cancellation to drown out as much background noise as possible, the Jabra Evolve 75 SE is the one to get.
Across two testing sessions in three years, panelists consistently ranked this model the highest in voice quality, calling it “extremely clear” and the best of the lot “without exception.”
The ANC technology commands a higher price, however. And although this headset remains comfortable for hours, it has a relatively short battery life, so it requires charging twice as often as the Evolve2 65.
Our pick
Jabra Evolve2 30
If you’re at a computer all day and don’t need to use a headset with your phone, this wired headset offers mic quality similar to that of our wireless picks—for less than half the price.
Of all the wired headsets we’ve tested, the Jabra Evolve2 30 offers the best mix of great audio quality—both input and output—and lightweight comfort.
Compared with less expensive options, the Evolve2 30 did a better job in our tests of suppressing background noise while still capturing clear, warm vocals.
The controls on the right earcup are somewhat small, but it’s not hard to get used to them.
Upgrade pick
Jabra Evolve2 40
This is the best-sounding wired headset we’ve tested, with large, comfortable earpads.
The vocal recordings we made with the Jabra Evolve2 40 were the best of the bunch: clear and natural-sounding, even when there was loud background noise.
Its headband padding is thicker than both the Jabra Evolve2 30’s and the Logitech Zone Wired’s. And the foam earpads are larger; they make the Evolve2 40 a bit heavier than the Evolve2 30 (though lighter than the Zone Wired), yet they’re still comfortable.
In addition to using the on-ear buttons, you can mute or unmute the headset by lowering or raising the mic boom.
Although the Evolve2 40 costs a bit more than our other wired-headset picks, at this writing it is still around $100 cheaper than the best-sounding wireless headset.
