**The Importance of Good Audio and Video Equipment for Working from Home**

When it comes to working from home, having good audio and video equipment can make all the difference in terms of professionalism and productivity. Unfortunately, many people underestimate the importance of this aspect of remote work, and as a result, they may end up with poor quality audio or video that can be distracting and unprofessional.

One of the most critical pieces of audio equipment for working from home is a good quality headset or speakerphone. The HyperX Cloud II headset is a popular choice among remote workers due to its excellent sound quality and comfort. However, some people may not want to invest in a high-end headset, which is where mid-range options come in. These headsets offer great sound quality at a lower price point than high-end models.

In addition to good audio equipment, having a webcam that can capture clear video is also essential for working from home. Unfortunately, many webcams on the market are overpriced and not worth the investment. A mid-range webcam such as the Microsoft Webcam or the Elgato Cam Link can be a great alternative. The Elgato Cam Link is a device that allows you to connect an HDMI cable from your camera to a USB port on your computer, making it easy to use even if you have an older camcorder.

For some people, working from home can be distracting due to the lack of separation between work and personal life. Having a dedicated workspace can help to minimize distractions and improve focus. This can be as simple as using a desk or table in a separate area of the room, rather than working on your bed or couch. Some people may also consider investing in a dual-boot computer setup, which allows them to switch between work and personal software.

Another issue that some remote workers face is having to install software on their personal computers that they don't necessarily want there. In this case, using a KVM (Keyboard, Video, and Mouse) switch can be a great solution. A KVM switch allows you to plug in two or more computers into the same keyboard, mouse, and monitor switch, making it easy to switch between them with just a button press. This is especially useful if you have to use multiple software applications for work.

**The Perfect Home Office Setup**

For those who are serious about working from home, investing in a good quality computer setup can make all the difference. A typical computer setup includes a desk or table under which the monitor and keyboard are placed, with cables hidden away by a modesty panel or fabric cover. A comfortable mouse pad such as the Level One Tech's desk mat is also essential for long hours of typing.

A high-end gaming mouse with precise tracking and ergonomic design can be a great investment for remote workers who spend long hours on their computer. The display port 1.4 model of this mouse offers fast and smooth performance, while the 1.2 model will do 4k 60 Hertz. However, it's worth noting that both models are overkill for most people, and a more affordable option may be sufficient.

In addition to good audio equipment and a computer setup, having a reliable internet connection is also essential for remote work. A fast and stable internet connection can help to ensure seamless communication with colleagues and clients, while a slow or unreliable connection can lead to frustration and delays.

For those who are looking to improve their home office setup, investing in a KVM switch and a good quality headset or speakerphone may be the best place to start. With these essential pieces of equipment, remote workers can focus on their work without distractions and communicate effectively with colleagues and clients.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis video is brought to you by asrock yes thank you as rock and the Z 490 Tai Chi 10th generation Intel Core processors have been announced and this motherboard supports the 10th generation processors that have been announced but this motherboard was tested by us with a 10-9 3rd K and the 10 600 K now as Rock has done some really interesting things with this motherboard night so first up you know you've got the tenth generation CPU support which of course means that you're gonna have insane massive power delivery that's dr. Moss you know 60 amp power choke 60 amp power delivery and you might be thinking wait didn't I see this kind of power delivery subsystem on an extremely high-end motherboard and you would be correct yes yes indeed you did yes because this motherboard could deliver a whole bunch of power and also a nahee McCaw do name Macario is a high-end audio solution it's a high-end implementation or the real Realtek ALC 12:24 nice clean powerful amplification to be able to drive those studio headphones or whatever it is that you might be plugging into it so if you're considering building a computer based around Intel's tenth generation core CPUs you should check out the z4 90 taichi link below hey gang welcome to my office this is my office even though I haven't been here for two three months at this point I don't really remember the day's blend together as I'm sure some of you can commiserate I'm here I'm back here today the mouse had died the poor thing hadn't been recharged and unfortunately like a lot of the major companies I think Google Facebook maybe even a Microsoft Twitter for sure have announced they're not going back to the office it's gonna be working from home for at least the rest of the year in a lot of cases and a lot of you are probably in that same situation so today I want to talk about some tips and some items that you can get that will make your home office better and hopefully make you less miserable when you're a play space is the same as your work space the phrase home office is going to stop having meaning soon home office home office so one of the biggest investments you can make and one of the best investments I guess I should say is to replace your desk if you have a bad desk look how cool that desk is looks amazing alright it's not it's actually overtime proven to be one of the worst desks I've ever had the leg space is terrible it's it's then which is nice but I don't really use it and the motherboard being inside the desk wow that's cool you got the glass you can look down on it but you know what you can't do you can't attach USB peripherals to the board directly and it does pass through but there's two ports two ports so this desk has proven to be kind of a misery and it started out really cool but I really don't like it so personally I'm going to upgrade my desk unfortunately it's here in the office and I'm gonna be at home but I actually have the same desk at home so hey we're gonna show you a cool desk that's a lot cheaper than this one that you can invest in when you think about a desk you can't ignore the chair and the chair that I have at home is like an office Mac special and the difference really really shows itself after a couple of months of going from one to the for eight hours a day so don't skimp on the chair it makes a lot more difference than you would think when it comes to your happiness overall a couple of brands we've used here in the office are steel case actually mostly you steel case but also there's Herman Miller this is a steel case leap now we did buy these used and we got them for much lower than the retail price if you go to their website and you look at those prices you freak out ya don't pay that try to go to a used furniture store or find an office that's going out of business or something like that and get one for cheap but they really are a great investment I am not the best of this so maybe do as I say and not as I do but one other thing that you should do when you're working from home is keep a schedule try to get up at the same time every day go to bed at the same time every night again I'm not the best at this but it does kind of help you keep yourself motivated to keep working which is important right now you don't have to buy your desk all in one piece not everything on world is IKEA you can do it yourself a lot of people like to do that hey if you're gonna do that make a youtube video about it maybe make some money that way but we are actually going to cobble together a bit of a Frankenstein desk and it's not the first time we've done this we actually have one of these in the studio that we use a lot it is a grizzly butcher block top which isn't really designed for computer desks but it works great up lift legs which are a sit stand version of motorized legs you can also get a version that's not motorized and we're also going to put this space Co under desk strap for holding a PC if you're gonna do a dual PC solution this is great because you don't have to have two PC's taking up space on your desk one can hang underneath case you're wondering about the monitor mounting solution this is space code it's a high end solution it's expensive it's gonna cost a lot these particular ones came from Lehman Brothers when Lehman Brothers went out of business so sometimes you can get lucky and buy about 300 at a time I have a dark IT past it's fine yeah a lot of day trading and these are really nice monitor mounts are incredible they last forever it's a it's a buy once and forget about it kind of thing and this is the same solution that we're gonna use on Ryan's new desk it's a threaded rod you can get a clamp on and some other ones but the the threaded rod that bolts in place is unstoppable you tighten it down and it's not going anywhere so that's exactly what we're gonna do on Brian's new desk and yeah I did this to the old best to had to modify the old desk in order to get this to work and makes it to where you can take the glass off without moving your monitors on the old desk which is a requirement basically to be able to work on the machine and do a little bit of stuff but turns out terribly inconvenient moving a forty pound piece of glass anyway so it's such a pretty desk see this is the same threaded rod the same setup that we had before just a matter of drilling at home although be sure to because it's made out of you know butcher block you don't want to drill in between two pieces of wood you want to drill in one center piece of wood so one thing you might want to invest in is a nice pair of headphones and I'm not talking about like just a pair of ear buds because they're uncomfortable and you really can't hear that wall out of them if you can try to get a pair like this so it goes over top of your ear they'll just help you hear better and then also you can do music as well now if you're someone like Wendell who doesn't listen to music except for Weird Al that might not help you focus but for other people who you know maybe just have a Spotify account or listen to music on YouTube that can kind of help keep you level during a really hectic work day also going back to the idea of a call get a good mic they're kind of hard to find right now but something like this will make you sound 100 percent better when you have to talk to someone outside of your office space now the ones that we're showing you guys are the HyperX cloud twos this does actually have a mic in it now the mic and the one that we showed you did die at this point but it worked great before that on conference calls and these are mid-range you know so still an investment still little bit expensive but not as nearly as expensive some of the other kinds that you're gonna see on the market especially right now with things kind of being crazy on Amazon so let's talk about your audio setup you don't want to be the on the call I'm sorry this is my defense lawyer believe it or not none of us here at level one sex particularly like being on camera and I'm sure some of your gonna make jokes about how we shouldn't be but when it comes to you know teleconferencing it seems more professional in some cases or at least some people perceive it to be more professional if they can look at you especially when you're working from home so you're gonna need a webcam a problem is this is a Microsoft webcam it's you know a pretty decent one and you're probably not gonna pay more than 100 bucks for a decent modern webcam until about two months ago and now you could pay 250 300 but you shouldn't do that and you might be thinking well what am I gonna do if I can't do that well you can get a device like this this is the elgato cam link and it will take HDMI and turn it into USB so if you have something like this an old camcorder or if you go on ebay or to a pawn shop or something you know people don't think about this being useful in the webcam era but you can make this serviceable as you're teleconferencing solution if you don't want to pay the inflated prices for modern webcams now if you're already working like you know but we mentioned in a separate office space you probably already have a separate computer that you're using to work on but in some cases again if you're not working in your home office and you're using the same machine for everything that's kind of introducing a lot of distractions during the day I mean you talk about discordant messages steam messages your friend telling you to 1v1 you and over watch it and you know even just browsing reddit it can be really really distracting so if you're one of these people who's having to use this a machine for everything you might look into dual booting you should definitely try to put your home office in a separate space now it's not all of us are lucky enough to be able to have a dedicated room for a home office but even just putting your workspace into another area so you're working you know in your kitchen at your dining room table instead of in your bed where you're normally browsing stuff on your phone that kind of mental delineation is really helpful to keep yourself focused when you're working at home another part of working from home that can sometimes be a little bit frustrating along with the distractions is sometimes your workplace wants you to install software that you're not really sure you want anywhere near your normal computer now we are thinking about doing a video to discuss this more in depth you can get a level of KVM the KP game is gonna be like really amazing because you can have two physical computers and you know one set of monitors even dual monitors one set of USB peripherals and switch between them and it's gonna be great because and with that that's pretty much it for your perfect setup your computer is under the desk your wires are hidden in the uplift desk a modesty panel which is just a fabric panel to hide wires you get the monitor mounting solution you can use the surface you know with the wonderful level one Tech's desk mat giant mouse pad works great store that level one text comm can use the level one KVM to switch between them just plug in both computers to your KVM and then your both of your monitors into the switch it hit the button one or two play switches your keyboard your mouse both of your high resolution and high refresh rate 4k under 20 Hertz up to monitors this is the DisplayPort 1.4 model DisplayPort 1.4 1.2 model will do 4k 60 Hertz 1.4 will do 4k 120 Hertz but it's pretty awesome disk it's pretty awesome setup dear madam it has been 3-4 months since I've seen you love new business kill the man history no reason level one KVM start out left context that's not social distance no no I'll just put it on like you could you can step in and I just put my mask on immediately likethis video is brought to you by asrock yes thank you as rock and the Z 490 Tai Chi 10th generation Intel Core processors have been announced and this motherboard supports the 10th generation processors that have been announced but this motherboard was tested by us with a 10-9 3rd K and the 10 600 K now as Rock has done some really interesting things with this motherboard night so first up you know you've got the tenth generation CPU support which of course means that you're gonna have insane massive power delivery that's dr. Moss you know 60 amp power choke 60 amp power delivery and you might be thinking wait didn't I see this kind of power delivery subsystem on an extremely high-end motherboard and you would be correct yes yes indeed you did yes because this motherboard could deliver a whole bunch of power and also a nahee McCaw do name Macario is a high-end audio solution it's a high-end implementation or the real Realtek ALC 12:24 nice clean powerful amplification to be able to drive those studio headphones or whatever it is that you might be plugging into it so if you're considering building a computer based around Intel's tenth generation core CPUs you should check out the z4 90 taichi link below hey gang welcome to my office this is my office even though I haven't been here for two three months at this point I don't really remember the day's blend together as I'm sure some of you can commiserate I'm here I'm back here today the mouse had died the poor thing hadn't been recharged and unfortunately like a lot of the major companies I think Google Facebook maybe even a Microsoft Twitter for sure have announced they're not going back to the office it's gonna be working from home for at least the rest of the year in a lot of cases and a lot of you are probably in that same situation so today I want to talk about some tips and some items that you can get that will make your home office better and hopefully make you less miserable when you're a play space is the same as your work space the phrase home office is going to stop having meaning soon home office home office so one of the biggest investments you can make and one of the best investments I guess I should say is to replace your desk if you have a bad desk look how cool that desk is looks amazing alright it's not it's actually overtime proven to be one of the worst desks I've ever had the leg space is terrible it's it's then which is nice but I don't really use it and the motherboard being inside the desk wow that's cool you got the glass you can look down on it but you know what you can't do you can't attach USB peripherals to the board directly and it does pass through but there's two ports two ports so this desk has proven to be kind of a misery and it started out really cool but I really don't like it so personally I'm going to upgrade my desk unfortunately it's here in the office and I'm gonna be at home but I actually have the same desk at home so hey we're gonna show you a cool desk that's a lot cheaper than this one that you can invest in when you think about a desk you can't ignore the chair and the chair that I have at home is like an office Mac special and the difference really really shows itself after a couple of months of going from one to the for eight hours a day so don't skimp on the chair it makes a lot more difference than you would think when it comes to your happiness overall a couple of brands we've used here in the office are steel case actually mostly you steel case but also there's Herman Miller this is a steel case leap now we did buy these used and we got them for much lower than the retail price if you go to their website and you look at those prices you freak out ya don't pay that try to go to a used furniture store or find an office that's going out of business or something like that and get one for cheap but they really are a great investment I am not the best of this so maybe do as I say and not as I do but one other thing that you should do when you're working from home is keep a schedule try to get up at the same time every day go to bed at the same time every night again I'm not the best at this but it does kind of help you keep yourself motivated to keep working which is important right now you don't have to buy your desk all in one piece not everything on world is IKEA you can do it yourself a lot of people like to do that hey if you're gonna do that make a youtube video about it maybe make some money that way but we are actually going to cobble together a bit of a Frankenstein desk and it's not the first time we've done this we actually have one of these in the studio that we use a lot it is a grizzly butcher block top which isn't really designed for computer desks but it works great up lift legs which are a sit stand version of motorized legs you can also get a version that's not motorized and we're also going to put this space Co under desk strap for holding a PC if you're gonna do a dual PC solution this is great because you don't have to have two PC's taking up space on your desk one can hang underneath case you're wondering about the monitor mounting solution this is space code it's a high end solution it's expensive it's gonna cost a lot these particular ones came from Lehman Brothers when Lehman Brothers went out of business so sometimes you can get lucky and buy about 300 at a time I have a dark IT past it's fine yeah a lot of day trading and these are really nice monitor mounts are incredible they last forever it's a it's a buy once and forget about it kind of thing and this is the same solution that we're gonna use on Ryan's new desk it's a threaded rod you can get a clamp on and some other ones but the the threaded rod that bolts in place is unstoppable you tighten it down and it's not going anywhere so that's exactly what we're gonna do on Brian's new desk and yeah I did this to the old best to had to modify the old desk in order to get this to work and makes it to where you can take the glass off without moving your monitors on the old desk which is a requirement basically to be able to work on the machine and do a little bit of stuff but turns out terribly inconvenient moving a forty pound piece of glass anyway so it's such a pretty desk see this is the same threaded rod the same setup that we had before just a matter of drilling at home although be sure to because it's made out of you know butcher block you don't want to drill in between two pieces of wood you want to drill in one center piece of wood so one thing you might want to invest in is a nice pair of headphones and I'm not talking about like just a pair of ear buds because they're uncomfortable and you really can't hear that wall out of them if you can try to get a pair like this so it goes over top of your ear they'll just help you hear better and then also you can do music as well now if you're someone like Wendell who doesn't listen to music except for Weird Al that might not help you focus but for other people who you know maybe just have a Spotify account or listen to music on YouTube that can kind of help keep you level during a really hectic work day also going back to the idea of a call get a good mic they're kind of hard to find right now but something like this will make you sound 100 percent better when you have to talk to someone outside of your office space now the ones that we're showing you guys are the HyperX cloud twos this does actually have a mic in it now the mic and the one that we showed you did die at this point but it worked great before that on conference calls and these are mid-range you know so still an investment still little bit expensive but not as nearly as expensive some of the other kinds that you're gonna see on the market especially right now with things kind of being crazy on Amazon so let's talk about your audio setup you don't want to be the on the call I'm sorry this is my defense lawyer believe it or not none of us here at level one sex particularly like being on camera and I'm sure some of your gonna make jokes about how we shouldn't be but when it comes to you know teleconferencing it seems more professional in some cases or at least some people perceive it to be more professional if they can look at you especially when you're working from home so you're gonna need a webcam a problem is this is a Microsoft webcam it's you know a pretty decent one and you're probably not gonna pay more than 100 bucks for a decent modern webcam until about two months ago and now you could pay 250 300 but you shouldn't do that and you might be thinking well what am I gonna do if I can't do that well you can get a device like this this is the elgato cam link and it will take HDMI and turn it into USB so if you have something like this an old camcorder or if you go on ebay or to a pawn shop or something you know people don't think about this being useful in the webcam era but you can make this serviceable as you're teleconferencing solution if you don't want to pay the inflated prices for modern webcams now if you're already working like you know but we mentioned in a separate office space you probably already have a separate computer that you're using to work on but in some cases again if you're not working in your home office and you're using the same machine for everything that's kind of introducing a lot of distractions during the day I mean you talk about discordant messages steam messages your friend telling you to 1v1 you and over watch it and you know even just browsing reddit it can be really really distracting so if you're one of these people who's having to use this a machine for everything you might look into dual booting you should definitely try to put your home office in a separate space now it's not all of us are lucky enough to be able to have a dedicated room for a home office but even just putting your workspace into another area so you're working you know in your kitchen at your dining room table instead of in your bed where you're normally browsing stuff on your phone that kind of mental delineation is really helpful to keep yourself focused when you're working at home another part of working from home that can sometimes be a little bit frustrating along with the distractions is sometimes your workplace wants you to install software that you're not really sure you want anywhere near your normal computer now we are thinking about doing a video to discuss this more in depth you can get a level of KVM the KP game is gonna be like really amazing because you can have two physical computers and you know one set of monitors even dual monitors one set of USB peripherals and switch between them and it's gonna be great because and with that that's pretty much it for your perfect setup your computer is under the desk your wires are hidden in the uplift desk a modesty panel which is just a fabric panel to hide wires you get the monitor mounting solution you can use the surface you know with the wonderful level one Tech's desk mat giant mouse pad works great store that level one text comm can use the level one KVM to switch between them just plug in both computers to your KVM and then your both of your monitors into the switch it hit the button one or two play switches your keyboard your mouse both of your high resolution and high refresh rate 4k under 20 Hertz up to monitors this is the DisplayPort 1.4 model DisplayPort 1.4 1.2 model will do 4k 60 Hertz 1.4 will do 4k 120 Hertz but it's pretty awesome disk it's pretty awesome setup dear madam it has been 3-4 months since I've seen you love new business kill the man history no reason level one KVM start out left context that's not social distance no no I'll just put it on like you could you can step in and I just put my mask on immediately like\n"