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You and Bluetooth did WHAT?
After finally joining the Bluetooth phone world with my Nokia 6102i, I was able to obtain a Plantronics Explorer 320 Bluetooth headset for it. It sounds pretty good with the cell phone.
But I had to know. How would it function as an SR microphone. I had to find out for myself.
In short - don't bother!
So I paired it with my desktop PC and ran Sound Recorder. When I listened, it really sounded pretty weak but I figured I'd try anyway just to see. When I ran DNS 8, I was able to direct the input from the Bluetooth driver (AnyCom dongle) into DNS. It passed the volume test quite happily! Then we got to the quality test. Well, let's just say we only got an 11. I decided to go ahead anyway so we went to training. After about 3 minutes of trying to get it to hear "Welcome", we moved forward to the next sentence. Wouldn't go past that so I gave it up.
I wasn't really expecting it to work, but now I have actual experience that it doesn't! It makes me wonder how a REAL Bluetooth SR mic would work.
I had fun, did you? 
Little bit of fun.
Little bit of fun. Bluetooth seems weird (vice wired) to me, probably because I don't need it. As I understand it, its a set of specs for radio wave communication. I can see how that facilitates wireless headsets -- I just don't dig wireless headsets. I guess its an advance over prior technology where you had an operating/battery unit separate from the earpiece.