A microphone boom is provided with extendable microphone arrays, and a headset having such a microphone boom. The headset comprise a casing accommodating the signal transmission circuitry and further comprises a speaker adapted to serve a sound signal at the proximity of a users ear and the speaker is protruding from the casing at a speaker-end of the casing and one microphone array is fixated relative to the casing distally with respect to the speaker-end.