Bluetooth VoIP Headset for MacBook?

Has anyone come across a Bluetooth headset that works well—that is, sounds tolerable—with a MacBook for VoIP communications?
My Plantronics Voyager 510 is close to worthless.

Today I bought a Plantronics Voyager PLT 510 and tried it with the Mac Pro and Macbook Pro 17". It worked fine with both. The QuickPair feature worked also: It took much less time to pair as in my previous Anycom headset.
I also finally managed to connect Anycom HS-790 that I wrote about yesterday. I removed all bluetooth devices that were registered in my computer. In my Macbook Pro it was a wireless Mighty Mouse and my Mac Pro it was a PDA. My Anycom HS-790 is two years old and I used it with the Macbook Pro and 10.4. before. Now it seems to work also with Leopard: The sound output is OK, but this device has a rather poor input quality. This is the reason why I baught a Plantronics.

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TC, please accept a warm welcome to Apple Discussions.
I know a few things about Bluetooth implementation(s) by various manufacturers, but don't use a headset. So my response is dependent on research and reading about others' experience. Please consider it in that context.
(1) First, I think you'll find the most useful resource here is the Other Bluetooth Devices forum, where there are many threads about Bluetooth-enabled devices such as headsets, phones, PDAs, etc. A search for "+headset" in that forum provided more results than you'd care to read in a single sitting.
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(3) Many adapters aren't supported. Apple only formally supports its own internal Bluetooth modules (cards) and D-Link DBT-120 adapters, Revisions B2, B3, and B4. While other companies may claim Mac-compatibility — and their adapters may work — this has proven spotty. The one sure thing that may be said is that Apple has only designed its firmware updates to "flash" its own modules and the specified adapters.
(4) Who cares? Well, that matters in a couple of ways. The inital Bluetooth Specifications had a lot of problems, and were improved significantly by Specification (version or v.) 1.1 in 2003. Many adapters and devices are still designed to this v.1.1 standard — but Bluetooth has evolved a lot since then, with the release of v.1.2 and 2.0+EDR (the latter requires a different Bluetooth chip, and is what's currently "built-into" the iBook G4, the MacBook Pro, and other new models). Devices designed to the newer Specifications are backward-compatible — but some things (profiles, for example) must be available for both.
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