Alternative to speaker on phone

[pumpkinpillow]

My son spends hours talking to his friends on speaker phone in his room.
I don't know what it is about phone speakers but I cannot abide the sound. Tinny or something? What alternatives are there?

I am finding I have to make my own noise (radio or headphones) so I can't hear it.

If it's loud I do ask him to turn it down, same as I do for booming Xbox or music, but this isn't loud, it's just a frequency that makes me want to run out of the house screaming. It's my problem, I don't want him to not talk to his friends.

Headphones?

AirPods so you can’t hear the friend ?

Earphones for him or ear plugs for yourself

Sorry, what I omitted to say is that they are playing xbox together (in their own homes) while talking, so DS needs to hear the game and his friend.

I seem a bit dim....I couldn't put my finger on why earphones (with mouth piece) wouldn't work.

I don't want to wear earplugs around my own home, I'd rather find a solution to the problem I mention.

Your post specifically mentions that you believe you are the issue OP, not your son so therefore wearing earplugs isn’t an unreasonable suggestion. I have Loop Engage earplugs and they’re fantastic - block out the sounds/frequencies that you don’t want whilst still allowing you to hear the rest of your surroundings. I often wear them out to loud restaurants or cafes to drown out the noisy chatter of surrounding diners at other tables, they’re very comfortable and can’t be seen. £20 well spent, they’re such a clever little invention. Not like traditional earplugs at all.

They should talk on a headset connected to the Xbox rather than the phone - that way they can get the game audio through the headset too.

Turtle Beach is an example brand.

Fair point. I thought you were talking about traditional foam earplugs.

He has Turtle Beach headphones.
Would his friend need them too?
I need to speak to him I think, I've been trying to leave him be as he's not being unreasonable.

So, his mate has a PS4 so unless they are playing cross platform games they can't communicate through the console.