[jriggin]

"TL;DR: Sound good, comfy enough, good mic, annoying as **** whooshing sound that I have never experienced in any other headphone. If they fix that, these are the best in class wireless headphones."

Whooshing sound, mediocre mic, sound balance issues, clamping, gamer look.... Best in class.

 

[Metsuki]

He said it had a good mic, the clamping can be broken in and the woosh will be fixed.

 

[Graymare]

He said it had a good mic, the clamping can be broken in and the woosh will be fixed.

Don’t they only have like 30 days max to fix some of these issues? Some people here even have less time to return them if audeze doesn’t release their firmware update quickly.

 

[Metsuki]

The new firmware should be released this week, according to them.

 

[drsnowball]

I’ve given the Penrose another full day of use, and the clamp is still too much for me. After 3 hours of use I have a headache, and past that I’d rate it as actually painful.

I really want to love this headset. It sounds great, my experience with the mic is great, and the dual wireless and connection have both worked flawlessly for me. As far as I can tell, the Penrose is the only set on the market other than the Arctis 9 that provides both simultaneous dual audio and USB based wireless. But the other thing I’m looking for is all day comfort and the Arctis 7P I’m able to try out as a comparison is a night-and-day comfort difference from the Penrose. I’m going to continue to stretch these and try to break them in, but I considered my old Bowers and Wilkins P7 as tight as I could take, and this is significantly tighter.

 

[waltdisneypixar]

I’ve given the Penrose another full day of use, and the clamp is still too much for me. After 3 hours of use I have a headache, and past that I’d rate it as actually painful.

I really want to love this headset. It sounds great, my experience with the mic is great, and the dual wireless and connection have both worked flawlessly for me. As far as I can tell, the Penrose is the only set on the market other than the Arctis 9 that provides both simultaneous dual audio and USB based wireless. But the other thing I’m looking for is all day comfort and the Arctis 7P I’m able to try out as a comparison is a night-and-day comfort difference from the Penrose. I’m going to continue to stretch these and try to break them in, but I considered my old Bowers and Wilkins P7 as tight as I could take, and this is significantly tighter.

That is going to be my main problem because I play a lot. Hopefully with my headphone stand it will stretch
Well see....

 

[Mad Lust Envy]

It's been said various times. USE A PILLOW to loosen the clamp.

I'm off tomorrow so I can take some pictures and what have you.

Yeah when you read this:

Penrose uses our award winning 100 mm Planar drivers. We needed a really good microphone to go with it. So we contacted our friends at Shure, the world most respected microphone brand. Shure’s input was instrumental in helping us create a new standard of voice quality for the Penrose microphone



And then everyone here talking about the rubbish mic.
I don't know

The mic isn't the issue. It's the wireless connection for the mic that is the issue.

You plug in the 3.5mm cable to the Penrose to connect the mic to a wired device, and that mic is absolutely one of the best boom mics available on ANY headset.

So its NOT the mic that's the problem.

You CAN use a wired connection for the mic, and the wireless connection for main audio. Since mic chat isn't a high importance to me in general, I don't mind going wired for the few times I need voice chat. My Schiit Hel is within arm's length, so plugging the cable for the mic output is 100% fine to me, and sounds astronomically better than the wireless connection.

I do hope the mic improvement patch does enough to satisfy everyone else though. The wireless mic connection is DEFINITELY a problem.

 

[cobraR00]

Did some gaming with mine earlier. Really like them a lot. Love side tone.

 

[Scratchansniff]

It's been said various times. USE A PILLOW to loosen the clamp.

I'm off tomorrow so I can take some pictures and what have you.


The mic isn't the issue. It's the wireless connection for the mic that is the issue.

You plug in the 3.5mm cable to the Penrose to connect the mic to a wired device, and that mic is absolutely one of the best boom mics available on ANY headset.

So its NOT the mic that's the problem.

Headphone Stand, Wooden Gaming Headset Showing Display Holder Hanger U Shape Desk Headset Hanger For Home, Office, Study, Shop, or TV set https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07J9T9K48/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_fabt1_51eXFb5DRZ787

Would this be better than a pillow to help with the clamp issue? I have one on my desk just wondering whether to use this stand or pillow. There is no chance of damage doing this is there?.

 

[Mad Lust Envy]

Headphone Stand, Wooden Gaming Headset Showing Display Holder Hanger U Shape Desk Headset Hanger For Home, Office, Study, Shop, or TV set https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07J9T9K48/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_fabt1_51eXFb5DRZ787

Would this be better than a pillow to help with the clamp issue? I have one on my desk just wondering whether to use this stand or pillow. There is no chance of damage doing this is there?.

I don't feel the width of that is enough to loosen clamp. You want the cups to separate with some force and distance so the plastic gives in a little.

You can detach the pads beforehand so you don't compress them while leaving the headphone stretched out over a pillow. I'll show the example tomorrow.

 

[Hagla]

It's been said various times. USE A PILLOW to loosen the clamp.


The mic isn't the issue. It's the wireless connection for the mic that is the issue.

You plug in the 3.5mm cable to the Penrose to connect the mic to a wired device, and that mic is absolutely one of the best boom mics available on ANY headset.

So its NOT the mic that's the problem.

I think there are two seperate issues at play, yes the wireless mic sounds slightly worse than wired but I don't think the muffled discord mic complaints are IRT that.
From what I can gather from searching "discord muffled voice" it seems that discord conducts some sort of mic filtering on its end and if your headset also has mic filtering then it will make you sound muffled. It sounds like the software is having some sort of conflict with discord and hopefully there's an easy software fix.

 

[Mad Lust Envy]

I think there are two seperate issues at play, yes the wireless mic sounds slightly worse than wired but I don't think the muffled discord mic complaints are IRT that.
From what I can gather from searching "discord muffled voice" it seems that discord conducts some sort of mic filtering on its end and if your headset also has mic filtering then it will make you sound muffled. It sounds like the software is having some sort of conflict with discord and hopefully there's an easy software fix.

Discord does do a bunch of things, which people can easily just turn off. I personally turn off all discord filters and instead use Nvidia Broadcast, where it has a noise suppression option which works incredibly well.

I have already posted my comparisons with the Penrose mic wired vs wireless without any filters. It's not like the Penrose mic is incompatible with Discord. People just need to change settings accordingly. Discord does not like the wireless connection one bit.

 

[drsnowball]

I've been using a folded pillow since receiving the headset. It is certainly more bearable than day 1, but I would still not call it comfortable, and I personally can't imagine using this for a full day. I may be more sensitive to clamp than others, but it's a serious problem for me on this headset. Sorry to be so negative but the comfort of this headset all around is a problem for me.

 

[amoeba1126]

Discord has a quite a bit of post-voice processing going on. Have those with issues tried adjusting some of those settings?

 

[Ryan84]

how much latency is there? I need a solid number and not an assumption solely based on 2.4GHz technology.
Wired is 7ms for example. And probably a stupid question, but can these also be used 'wired'? My Playstation VR and Oculus Quest 2 I plan on getting next year have an audio jack and are not compatible for wireless headphones. Unfortunately my DT770(250ohms) aren't loud enough when connected to the PSVR, that, and the long coiled wire completely gets in the way. The 80ohms i'm assuming would be louder and also have a basic cable instead of coiled, which i could fold to decrease the length.