Kleeberg
New Head-Fier
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I've had my headphones for two days now. I've now used them to play video games, music, and a movie.
For video games - I used mine connected via AUX to the XBox controller. There's a more noticeable noise floor here while nothing is on, although once the game starts up, I didn't notice it. I played Rocket League and PUBG. Rocket League sounds fantastic. I could hear cars wherever they were supposed to be and the head tracking was neat. PUBG was a bit of a bust, but it was more because the player that I was playing with had a mic that exerted a lot of feedback, so although I could hear him like I never had before (he sounded like the voice of God), I could also hear his static. I tried both footsteps and ballistic mode, but could not discern a difference. I'll try again without him so that I can get a true experience playing that game.
I tried it with music and a movie via my MacBook Pro connected via USB. There was a very subtle noise floor here, but even with nothing playing it was hardly noticeable. I changed the advanced audio settings to a 7.1 surround and watched The Dark Knight. It sounded fantastic. I played through the very first scene (the bank heist) and everything was crisp and clear through all 7 virtual channels. It was hard to not move my head in amazement. For music, I'm a hip-hop head, and listened to three samples - the Mac Miller Tiny Desk concert through YouTube, a Statik Selektah album through iTunes and a Jay-Z album through iTunes. I was extremely impressed with how the music sounded. Don't Run has a lot of clean, thumping bass, and the headphones reproduced it perfectly. Most of the time, this is where I see headphones not live up to my standards - hip-hop seems pretty tough to reproduce the right way due to the 808's.
Overall I really love these headphones. They're really comfortable and they look great. The controls and the learning curve around them is solved pretty quickly - after one or two times through the dial I was all set. The only way I did not test them was via Bluetooth...because I'll be using these almost exclusively at home, I won't really use Bluetooth to listen to much on them.
For video games - I used mine connected via AUX to the XBox controller. There's a more noticeable noise floor here while nothing is on, although once the game starts up, I didn't notice it. I played Rocket League and PUBG. Rocket League sounds fantastic. I could hear cars wherever they were supposed to be and the head tracking was neat. PUBG was a bit of a bust, but it was more because the player that I was playing with had a mic that exerted a lot of feedback, so although I could hear him like I never had before (he sounded like the voice of God), I could also hear his static. I tried both footsteps and ballistic mode, but could not discern a difference. I'll try again without him so that I can get a true experience playing that game.
I tried it with music and a movie via my MacBook Pro connected via USB. There was a very subtle noise floor here, but even with nothing playing it was hardly noticeable. I changed the advanced audio settings to a 7.1 surround and watched The Dark Knight. It sounded fantastic. I played through the very first scene (the bank heist) and everything was crisp and clear through all 7 virtual channels. It was hard to not move my head in amazement. For music, I'm a hip-hop head, and listened to three samples - the Mac Miller Tiny Desk concert through YouTube, a Statik Selektah album through iTunes and a Jay-Z album through iTunes. I was extremely impressed with how the music sounded. Don't Run has a lot of clean, thumping bass, and the headphones reproduced it perfectly. Most of the time, this is where I see headphones not live up to my standards - hip-hop seems pretty tough to reproduce the right way due to the 808's.
Overall I really love these headphones. They're really comfortable and they look great. The controls and the learning curve around them is solved pretty quickly - after one or two times through the dial I was all set. The only way I did not test them was via Bluetooth...because I'll be using these almost exclusively at home, I won't really use Bluetooth to listen to much on them.