Xbox Wireless Headset: First Impressions

The Xbox Wireless Headset is just $100, and it's something that we needed to see what you get for that price point from Microsoft itself.

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[mutant]

He didn't wear gloves while handling the controller. Damnit, Linus.

[lonzoformvp]

He's still showing off the controller to make up for the cost of it lol

[redridernl]

They missed the fact that you can connect it to the Xbox and another Bluetooth device at the same time and hear both. That's a major feature.

[julianburford]

I agree. Out of the box the sounds isn’t very good, . I fiddled around with the EQ settings for about an hour testing in Battlefield 1. I think I found a pretty good starting off point for users. Before the EQ the bass was way overpowering and the mids sound really hollow. This EQ setting fixes that for the most part and provides a lot more clarity!

125Hz - 5
250Hz - 4
1kHz 0
4kHz + 2
8kHz + 3

Bass Boost off

[duppypixels]

This is how i KNOW that im not a major gaming headset type of guy, because i bought this one yesterday and its literally the best gaming headset ive ever used lol. The sound was so perfect to me, and the fact that i could have it connected to my iphone and talk while still listening to the game audio was so cool to me, I love these!

[abdullah]

"Xbox Wireless Headset: First Impressions." That's a concise title. An actually good title. Thank you.

[darrellb]

Sponser: "They're made of a material called dynamax"
*Nintendo has entered the chat*

[TylerL]

Linus: "I wanna keep this pleaseee?"
Also Linus: "Aight who wants to buy it?"

[iBrisly]

Just a “buyer beware” from my experience. I bought the $100 series x wireless headset in this video and it was great sound wise, but once I joined an Xbox party with friends to test the mic, it literally picks up EVERY background noise there is. TV in a different room, ceiling fan, you name it. My friends could hear the sticks and buttons of my controllers loudly, every click I made. I did loads of troubleshooting, firmware updates, setting tweaks, all to no avail. Nothing would fix the sensitivity of this mic. I ended of returning it and buying the Arctis 7x for $50 more and am beyond please with that purchase.

For some reason none of these reviewers talk about the mic sensitivity of this $100 headset, however if you google there is plenty of forums complaining about this exact issue and they’re all still waiting on a software fix from Microsoft for a resolution.

Again this was just my experience, hopefully it saves someone some time and helps you rethink before you buy..

[mirza.]

I guess Linus is the only person allowed to hold the controller without special gloves

[raineheartily]

Part 4 of Gold Controller : Yvonne melts the gold controller~!

[oguzhanskb]

no matter how good of a pair you buy the kid with jet engine in his room is still going to be there

[mohammadnasrun]

Got mine last 2 week and i love it. Default sound is pretty average tbh but the function to play around with the EQ setting is really impressive. It took some time for me to learn how to play with it. in the future i hope microsoft had plan to release other colour scheme. really nice to match it with a robot white controller and XsS

[danielallen]

What I love best about the headset is you can Bluetooth and listen to music and take calls from your phone while it's Bluetoothed to the console! That's so awesome! And you can adjust your music and game volume so everything sounds perfect!

[MarkRose]

Linus goes from having everyone handle that gold controller with white gloves, to slamming it on the desk. What a guy

[che-weihsieh]

They’re still milking the gold controller I guess.

[duser]

You gotta love the design language from the surface headphones. Those rotational earcups for volume control is amazing and honestly, something i would have expected apple to come up with.

[Medzo]

3:06 Linux, You are the only reviewer that I've seen mentionning this feature. Thx!

[SynthMusicWorld]

Just picked up a pair today. Easy to setup and the sound quality is good. Especially nice is not needing a dongle.

[hackthis]

I can't believe he's touching the gold controller without gloves?!