Got my SLYRs this afternoon and have been playing around with it for a while now and I've come to a few conclusions
- They just BARELY fit my head. I would be happy if they had at least one extra notch on each arm.
- Soundwise, they're pretty musical. Just read MLE's impressions on them.
- The finish on the SLYRs headband is a textured matte plastic. Seems pretty durable. The plastic on the earcups kinda feels cheap.
- The SLYR mixer works as a generic pc sound card if you plug it into your pc.
- The headphone cable is 5ft, I personally like the length.
- The mixer cable if really effing long.
- I like the design of the strain relief but it also makes it hard to grip the cable when you want to pull it out.
- I wish the earpads were slightly bigger.
- The mixer will not work if plugged into a usb wall adapter. I tried a 500ma and a 2a and neither worked. It must be plugged in a pc, ps3, or xbox.
- Hooked up the mixer to my receiver's headphone port and played fine with it being fed DH.
- The mixer has 3 EQ settings and you must use 1 at all times,"Bass Mode", "Supreme Mode", and "Precision Mode". I find that the bass mode and precision mode is overly aggressive with the bass boost and treble boost. "Supreme Mode" seems to be the flat EQ.
- The mixer hooked up to my receiver, bass mode introduces a slight hum and precision mode brings in some hiss. Played it supreme mode (middle EQ) and it didn't mess with the DH but there is very slight hiss still but it's a non factor.
- Mixer hooked to my receiver and xbox controller and chat worked fine.
- If you want to use the SLYR with a mixamp and amp combo you're going to need a TRRS splitter so you can have a separate jack for your mic and headphone. You'll also need the headset splitter.
- I have to have the headband sit slightly more forward than usual to get a comfortable fit.
- Totally worth $40
Edit: for the mixer, you can also play your mp3s on your computer while it's being fed game audio. You can adjust the balance of the 2 sources with the thumb stick on the mixer. Haven't tried this with it also being fed a chat channel yet.