Product Description:
The XP500 delivers the ultimate gaming audio experience with a programmable digital signal processor, Dolby 7.1 Surround Sound, Bluetooth technology, and XBOX LIVE wireless chat, making it the most technologically advanced headset ever designed for the XBOX 360. The DSP allows gamers to enhance and personalize the entire gaming audio experience with fully customizable game, chat and mic signals. Bluetooth technology lets you chat wirelessly on XBOX LIVE, answer mobile phone calls and stream music – all while gaming in immersive 360 degree surround sound. If you’re serious about gaming, then get serious about the sound. Step up to the XP500 and experience game audio like never before.
Product Details:
- Configure up to 18 personalized presets to optimize game, chat and mic audio for different gaming situations.
- Immersive 360 degree audio lets you hear the direction of every sound, as if you were playing with speakers all around you.
- Widen or narrow the sound field to focus on audio cues that are difficult to hear like footsteps sneaking up on you or the click of someone reloading in the distance
- Uncompressed wireless digital audio signal achieves CD-quality game sound that rivals professional-grade wired headphones
- Chat wirelessly on XBOX LIVE, answer mobile phone calls or listen to streaming music while gaming
Customer Reviews:
Tb's Flagship uses the most crowded freq on the planet By SteelValor
I bought a pair of these only to end up returning them a week later due to frequency saturation. They run on 2.4Ghz. That means it's competing with every device in your house. The microwave, cordless phone, WiFi, smartphones, etc. most of these devices use 2.4Ghz. Why Tb made a flagship product using a freq that is so over crowded it's comical is beyond me. Avoid if you have a house full of wireless devices. The amount of signal noise and drop outs are legendary.This headset... By Josh Benn
Is probably one of the more extraordinary headsets I've ever had. I've been playing games for years, and have owned many headsets starting from the x31's moving to Tritton's then to Astro's. I've even had studio quality headsets as my stepfather is a DJ (side job). Now I can't say that these headpsets are up there with the DJ equipment. But that's in the price range of 500+, and to ask for something to outperform something when it costs half as much is simply outrageous.
But let's get to the review part.
Sound:
The sound quality with these are amazing. I've always been a huge fan of Bose because they create speakers that just blow the doors off of the expected. What I mean is that the clarity of these headsets is amazing. If you're in a game and your job is to kill that enemy, you can simply find him because you can hear his every footstep, that click of the magazine as it get's pushed in the well, the cocking of the charging handle. The sound is crisp and clean like a good headset should be.
Astro's? They're good. They're REALLY good. I'll give them the performance of an x41. These blow those out of the water. Listen to music? That's pretty much all I do with these now that MW3 came out and ruined xbox for me (pc gamer now). The clarity of these headsets is simply astounding. The "Main" setting is perfect for all kinds of music. Want that extra bass? Put that switch/button on 4 and lose yourself in the nuance of sound. However; I have found that on this setting I have to lower the overall volume as the bass drowns everything out. Do not fret though, It's still plenty of sound to burn your ears off.
Comfort:
At first, these hurt my ears after long uses. I can't deny that it took about a month for these to "break in". After that month though, they feel as if they aren't on my head. They are one of the lightest headsets that I've had. The only one's lighter are the x41's, but that's a different review. The cushions on these are really comfortable, it's like a soft down pillow around your ears, except without the quills coming through the cloth to stab you in the head.
Durability:
While I have yet to throw these at the wall, I have dropped them many times. And I'm still wearing them as if they were new (except broken in now). Now I have to say that Astro's definitely "feel" more durable, but these are surely resilient to a lot of abuse. The plastic makes a slight squeaking sound when you bend these or move them a lot. But that's why they're so light, so I think if you just make sure not to rage hard enough and not throw them across the room or out the window you should be perfectly fine.
Functionality:
This is where they fall short. It might be that I'm on an Air Force base, it might be because I'm in a dorm room with hundreds of people around me. But one thing I surely had a problem with was the damn receiver. When it worked, it would work fine. No problems at all with sound or in game chat. However; when it didn't work, getting the damn receiver to connect to the headset would be such a pain. I don't think this would be as much of a problem if I didn't have multiple people using Bluetooth devices around me. Whenever the problem would happen the receiver would connect to something else. One time I had my teammates saying that they were listening to a guy "relieving" himself through my headset (receiver), made me cringe.
The other problem I have is now that I have switched over to using a computer, and have not tried Bluetooth with it, I am currently using this annoying 15ft. cord to chat with my teammates. It gets tangled ALL of the time, and the other times it sort of cuts out. I should really give Bluetooth a try on PC, I'm pretty sure it'll be more stable since I can chose what the PC connects too.
Summary:
Amazing headset with a variety of uses is only brought down by an UN-perfected system. It would be nice if TB were to get with Microsoft to create a sort of add-on or download on the xBox so you can chose what your controller receiver connects too. That would make it perfect.Amazing By Gino
Just finished playing Battlefield 3 using the XP500 Bluetooth wireless headphones and they are simply amazing. Setup was a breeze and the overall sound quality is great. I was originally hesitant to purchase the product due to the price, but after receiving them am happy that I placed the order. The dual Bluetooth sync with my phone or computer is also a great feature to have.
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