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If you want a wired USB headset built for clear speech on work calls, choose Creative HS-720; if you need a volume-limited on-ear pair of headphones for a child on a phone, tablet or Kindle, choose IMYB Kids Headphones.
• Creative HS-720 — biggest strength: It's a complete communication tool, not just a speaker. A noise-cancelling boom mic, mic-monitoring, and an inline remote with mute and call pick-up make it purpose-built for meetings and video calls.
• Creative HS-720 — biggest trade-off: It's USB-A wired only. No 3.5mm jack, no Bluetooth, so it won't plug into a phone, tablet, or game console, and you're tethered to a 2m cable.
• IMYB Kids Headphones — biggest strength: Child-first design. A factory-locked 85dB volume limit with no adjustable buttons, hypoallergenic memory foam earpads, and an adjustable headband sized for ages 2–12.
• IMYB Kids Headphones — biggest trade-off: There's no microphone at all and it's a 3.5mm wired connection, so it can't handle calls or meetings and only works with devices that have a headphone jack.
• Who each is for: Creative HS-720 is for adults working from a PC or Mac. IMYB Kids Headphones is for parents buying for a young child.
The Creative HS-720 V2 is a single-purpose device, and it's honest about it. Every feature on the sheet points at one job: letting you speak and be heard on a computer call. The passive noise-cancelling condenser mic sits on a flexible boom you can angle to your mouth, which matters because a mic that's positioned right picks up your voice rather than the room. The mic-monitoring feature plays your own voice back into your ears, so you can hear how loud you actually sound to everyone else on the call and adjust before someone has to ask you to.
The second thing that stands out is how much of the call control lives on the cable, not the screen. The inline remote carries a mic mute button that lights up red when the mic is live, plus a call pick-up button, volume, and playback controls. If you've ever fumbled to find the mute icon in a video app while someone was mid-sentence about you, you understand why that's the real feature here. It's also genuinely plug-and-play: USB-A into a PC or Mac, no software, no settings, and it works with the usual conference apps.
Buy it if you take calls from a Windows PC or Mac all day and want a mic that's actually designed for talking. Skip it if you need something for a phone, a tablet, a console, or for listening on the move — the USB-A connection and lack of Bluetooth rule all of that out, and there's no 3.5mm option to fall back on.
IMYB Kids Headphones: Who It's For
The IMYB Kids Headphones approach the same on-ear category from the opposite direction. The headline spec is a factory-locked 85dB volume limit with no adjustable buttons — the point being that a child can't turn it up, and you don't have to check. For a parent, that single design decision is usually the whole reason to buy a kids' pair in the first place, and it's baked in rather than optional.
The build follows the same logic. The earpads are hypoallergenic soft memory foam with protein leather, and the materials are BPA-free, which is the kind of detail that matters when something is pressed against a small head for hours. At 0.35 lb (5.6 oz) it's very light, and the adjustable headband with flexible swivel earcups is sized to fit ages 2–12, so it grows with the child instead of being outgrown in a year. The 40mm dynamic drivers run 20 Hz–20,000 Hz at 32 ohm impedance, which is an easy load for a phone, tablet, or Kindle to drive.
Two things to be clear about. First, this is a listening device — there is no microphone, so it's for music, audiobooks, online classes, and travel, not for talking. Second, it's a 3.5mm wired connection, so it needs a device with a headphone jack. The sound isolation is passive, not active noise cancellation, which is normal at this level and fine for cutting down plane or car noise.
Buy it if you want a light, safe, comfortable pair for a young child to use with a tablet or phone. Skip it if the child needs to speak on calls, or if their device has no 3.5mm port.
Side-by-Side: Which Should You Choose?
• Best for voice calls and meetings → Creative HS-720. The boom mic, mute button, and call pick-up exist precisely for this.
• Best for a child's hearing safety → IMYB Kids Headphones. The locked 85dB limit is the entire design premise.
• Best for long wear sessions → Creative HS-720. At 135g with padded on-ear cups and a 2m cable, it's built for hours at a desk.
• Best for simple setup → Creative HS-720 if you're on a computer (pure USB plug-and-play), but IMYB Kids Headphones if the source is a phone, tablet, or Kindle, since 3.5mm needs no adapter on those.
• Best for portability → IMYB Kids Headphones. It's the lighter of the two and folds, which suits bags and travel.
• Best for controlling your own voice on a call → Creative HS-720. Mic-monitoring (sidetone) is a feature you won't find on a basic kids' pair.
• Best for listening to music or audiobooks without a mic → IMYB Kids Headphones. The 40mm drivers handle general listening perfectly well.
In my opinion these two barely compete, because they solve different problems. If your day involves sitting at a PC or Mac talking to people, I'd buy the Creative HS-720 — the mic, the mute indicator, and the inline controls are the things that make a work call less awkward, and nothing about the IMYB gets close to that. If you're a parent shopping for a young child, I'd buy the IMYB Kids Headphones instead; the locked volume limit and the kid-sized fit are the two things that actually matter there. Pick the one that matches who's wearing it and what they need to do with it. Whichever way you go, check the current price on Amazon before deciding, since these sit in very different budget brackets.
FAQ
An over-ear headset has earcups that fully enclose your ears inside a padded ring, rather than sitting on them. Over-ear designs usually isolate more and can feel less pressure on the ear itself, while on-ear designs like these two tend to be lighter and more compact. Neither product on this page is an over-ear model.
Wearing a headset on one ear usually means resting the other earcup behind your ear or off to the side so you can still hear the room around you. The Creative HS-720's flexible boom mic can be angled toward your mouth regardless of how you position the cup, so speech stays clear. If you do this, expect less of the stereo effect from the 30mm drivers.
If you mean adjusting or swinging out the earcups to fit, the IMYB Kids Headphones are the relevant one here — its headband adjusts and the earcups swivel so you can open them out to fit a child's head, then fold them flat for storage. The Creative HS-720 has a fixed on-ear, flat padded design with no folding mechanism listed.
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