I am still loving the headset. Was overnighted to me on Friday night, received it saturday, and, man, it is good.

Lobot!

Looks good, might pick me up one...

It's beautiful but I can't buy one because of the price. It's next in line after I get drunk and step on my current headset.

the Best Buy product info (link) advertises with these sweet features:


Product Features
Digital quality and performance with no wires to hold you back

Removable ear grip provides a comfortable fit in your ear


30' cord lets you move around freely


Eight hours of battery life allow for long periods of wireless gaming


On, off and mute controls are easily accessible


A whole 30 foot cord! ( I have noticed this with several other wireless items)

Nice review Joystiq! However this is one of the worst parts so far of “next generation” gaming: Accessory pricing (and of course micro transactions). Honestly, the prices of the controllers, headsets, battery packs and basically anything you may need to pay extra for with a console is too much. I understand that everyone wants to make money and you need to subsidize the cost of a console from somewhere but come on!

I would really like to have a wireless headset but the idea of deciding over a game (say Gears of war) or a headset is ridiculous isn’t it? Surely the prices shouldn’t be the same.

Personally, Id like too see that companies lower the prices of accessories rather than consoles in the future. Prices for accessories are much above their actual cost to produce (In fact a wireless 360 pad only costs Microsoft $11 to make http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=180201706&pgno=3)

Of course, it’s not as attractive in getting new customers then lowering the actual units costs, but overall I believe that existing consumers and new consumers see the price of accessories when factoring in which console to purchase. I do realize that I am wrong to a certain extent since Sony seem to have hardly dropped accessory prices for the Playstation 2 without having a problem selling them, but the prices have risen significantly and with much more accessories to buy (hard drives, cameras attachments, recharge packs, wireless headsets etc) companies need to make the pricing more reasonable on these products.

Screw the headset. Where the hell is the racing wheel? It was released 2 days ago and I can't find the friggin' thing anywhere.

I have one and so does a friend. Both of us are having issues with it. Whenever we play in online games, people are constantly yelling at us due to our headsets making funky background noise. We switch back to the wired headset and things are all better. I have a second friend who bought one, had the same problems and returned it a day later.

I think I'm going to call Xbox support this weekend to see if they know what's going on. It seems to me like there is some kind of interference. It really annoys me to read about people that don't have an issue. I want this thing to work so bad.

It's still cheaper than the 3rd party options. I think it was Datel that made a Bluetooth one that cost $120.

I'm going to buy it right now and Gears of War later (damn FedEx for delaying the shipment to my area). $120 is too much for the day...LOL

Picked up my wireless headset last week, I absolutely love it. When playing with friends they say my voice actually comes through more clearly and there is less background noise coming in, very satisfied with it.

I and others I've talked with are having problems with dropped connections. From time to time, the sound will shift back to the TV, the headset will then beep, and it will reconnect.

Besides the connection drops, the headset is otherwise an improvement on the corded unit. Very comfortable. Better sound quality.

Hey, great video guys. Didn't know you were doing this. Bit of a high-pitched hum in the background but I'm wearing pretty high-end earphones so maybe not everyone is getting that.

You've pretty much sold me on the headset, though it's $69.99 CDN up here in Toronto, Canada. Maybe I just have an oddly-shaped head, but the standard wired headsets are plain uncomfortable. I miss the old Xbox behind the ear style ones.

@12

It's your Canadian Head. The Flappiness is making the headset uncomfortable....buddy!

*Farts*
HA HA HA HA HA HA

I got one and I love it. The sound is really crisp and it doesn't give me a headache like the other one did. A.

#11 - Thanks! We're trying to spice things up with our own video every now and then. The hum isn't your headphones, it's my camera. I'm using the video function on my digital camera. Not the best, but a temporary solution.

"13. @12

It's your Canadian Head. The Flappiness is making the headset uncomfortable....buddy!

*Farts*
HA HA HA HA HA HA"

As a Canadian I MUST say that....
You sir, are a racist! It's not aboot headsets, it's aboot respect. You guys are dicks. Release Terrence and Phillip NOW! Operation get behind the darkies will fail.
Bwahahahahahahaha. FART. Suck my balls!

great vid guys, i can get the headset for £26 over here in the uk via amazon, which equates to about $50. My only problem with the standard headset is the poor sound quality ,the whole uncomfortable geeky call centre style look I can live with. Hopefully the sound on this wireless headset will be much clearer, and less echoey

I've had my headset since Monday, and the jury's still out on it.

Setup is incredibly easy, and if you've synced up a wireless controller before, you'll have no problem setting this up. Press the sync button on the system, press the sync button on the headset. Done.

The sound quality is fine. Comparible to the regular headset. It's very comfortable too (I wear glasses and it provides absolutely no issues with my glasses at all).

I have encountered some... feedback, I guess you could say, where I hear my own voice on the headset about a second or two after I speak. It's very annoying. Admittedly though, this is an issue I've had with the wired headset.

The range isn't all that spectacular. I can walk around my room just fine but if I walk out of my room into the bathroom down the hall (maybe 20 feet away) I lose connection. Forget about trying to go downstairs! I live in an old house though, with thick walls, so perhaps this is the issue.

Oddly enough, I have had the headset randomly disconnect itself while in use. I do have a wireless router and a wireless telephone in the room, so this might be causing some interference, but I've never had controller issues, so I'm not sure what the problem is here. The headset will drop it's connection (sending the voice to the television) and then reconnect in a matter of seconds. Not a major hassle by any means but when someone is shouting orders at you it's pretty important that you're able to hear them and not miss words.

I should note that my 360 is not connected to the internet wirelessly. Even though I have a wireless router I have the system hooked up via a wire.

I enjoy the headset, but I'm not 100% satisfied with it based on my experience. The wireless freedom is certainly nice and I find it MUCH more comfortable to use than the wired headset but there have been occassions where I've wanted to chuck it across the room.

This is definitely on my list of accessories to buy, however it's probably going to have to wait for Christmas. It was either Gears now and headset later or headset later and Gears now...

yeah, I should check where my GoW pre-order shipment is...

"I have encountered some... feedback, I guess you could say, where I hear my own voice on the headset about a second or two after I speak. It's very annoying. Admittedly though, this is an issue I've had with the wired headset."

I had that too, and I fixed the feedback by turning down the headset volume in the system blade to 8 from 10. Give it a try!

@#20

I certainly will! Thank you for the suggestion! :-)

"I have one and so does a friend. Both of us are having issues with it. Whenever we play in online games, people are constantly yelling at us due to our headsets making funky background noise. We switch back to the wired headset and things are all better."

Last night, playing GoW, I had the same problem. I was pretty embarrassed since I absolutely hate the "static guys" when I play online. I never have static with the wired headset. The static went away only occasionally.

The other problem I had, which others mentioned, is switching audio to the TV. It came as quite a surprise last night when I got up to get something to drink, and all of a sudden, yelling and swearing came piping through my TV to fill my apartment. That's incredibly annoying. Since I don't want that to happen, I'm forced to take the headset off if I decide to get up, which of course now means I can't hear people talking when I walk away.

Hitting mute now requires me to take my hands off of the controller, which I also don't like.

The audio quality for listening is much improved.

All in all, I wouldn't recommend it.

Does this mean I am now going to have to listen to people take a leak while I am playing Gears of War against them now? I think I kinda like mic being tethered to the controller.

Does the headset fit comfortably under a pair of headphones? I have to wear headphones when I play Xbox, so any headset I use has to fit under them.

This cool but i got my eye on this bad boy
http://hardware.teamxbox.com/reviews/general/60/Audio-Xtreme-360-Headphones/p1/

picked it up on launch, pretty damn slick , sound quality is much improved from the wired ver. i was also able to head outside with out dropping connection , overall i think its a great product,but i do wish it was a bit cheaper $39.99

LOL! Netscape :P

I might pick one of these up sometime in the near future, wait till' they fix some things with it.

holy jesus mary!!! What a nub u are. How in the world do you put a 360 on your carpet. Does ur carpet have burn marks yet? Has it blown up? Get that thing off the carpet. I'm soooooooooooooo disssssssssssappointed by u . Can't freaking believe u actually have a 360 on carpet. That's a holy sin! U call yourself a gamer that reports. or whatever it is jeeeeeesssszzzzzzz!!1

wow just what i was looking for superd video OUTSTANDING even!!! i fell in love with it even more when i saw your video, going to get one tom cant wait!!!! want one now!!! www.myspace.com/martiny673

nice vid, very convincing and im gonna get one after xmas, just one thought tho "holy jesus mary!!! What a nub u are. How in the world do you put a 360 on your carpet. Does ur carpet have burn marks yet?" - wtf is a nub u n00b lol sry had to be done =D

Picked one of these up three days ago. I'm very disappointed. Neither of the earpieces is comfortable for me. That's probably not MS's fault, I might have wierd ears. The sound cutting out betweeen the headphone and the tv is the most annoying thing that can happen during a game. Finally, the static feedback is embarrassing, since everyone is yelling at you about it. The wired headset is much better.