Top 3 reasons you should AVOID Neckmike (aka “Tactical Headsets”) products and its founder Bo Franzen.

The Neckmike Headset

The Neckmike headset is a promising, but fundamentally flawed design. The microphone cabinet insufficiently isolates the embedded transducer from the surrounding environment resulting in unwanted noise from any contact against the microphone cabinet.  This includes wind impacting the microphone cabinet, shirts, jackets, helmet straps, etc. Furthermore, the low sound quality from the transducer results in muffled, garbled speech. The founder of Neckmike Sweden, Bo Franzen, explained this is due to “booming American voices”. All of these factors impede communication and render the Neckmike ineffective in its mission to enable users to be heard above the noise. Caveat Emptor!

The Neckmike Sweden Company

Neckmike Sweden is a business built on exaggerated claims and false promises. Neckmike USA, the exclusive distributor for North America, invested four years and considerable resources to launch Neckmike in North America. During this time, we experienced numerous product defects and quality issues that were consistently ignored or only slowly addressed by Neckmike Sweden. These included issues with microphones, ear bud speakers, adapter cables, extension cables, Velcro attachment straps and more. When Neckmike USA publicly apologized to customers on social media, Neckmike Sweden severed the relationship between the companies. This web site will now serve as a cautionary tale for potential customers, partners and investors. Caveat Emptor!  

There Are Better Alternatives

Not only does the Neckmike headset NOT work as advertised by Neckmike Sweden, it is behind the competition with respect to technology, performance and product quality. There is no electronic noise cancellation built into the headset. Instead, it relies on physical contact to pick up the user’s voice and hardware isolation to reduce ambient noise, which create an irreconcilable design conflict and poor results in the field. This approach results in “cotton mouth” voice quality with a hollow-sounding voice transmission that will leave other people baffled by your words and asking you to repeat yourself. Other companies such as Sena, Cardo Systems and UCLEAR offer superior designs, better product quality and ongoing support. Caveat Emptor! Contact Us

Why NOT Neckmike?

  • Neckmike (aka “Tactical Headsets”) do NOT work as advertised!
    • Terrible voice quality. Muffled, garbled, unintelligible speech is normal.
    • Any contact with the microphone cabinet (wind, clothing, helmet strap) causes horrendous noise via

microphonics

    • Neckmike Sweden is full of false promises
    • There are far better alternatives!