DROP + EPOS PC38X Wired Open Acoustic Gaming Headset with Over-Ear Open-Back Design | Velour Earpads | Gaming Headphones Compatible with PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox, Mac, and More (Black)

Overall really happy with it after a couple of weeks of using it. The sound quality is very clear with some nice lows. In-game music and sounds are epic and your spotify etc will also sound very good for the price point. It's not super audiophile level good but most people will be able to tell right away that the sound quality is good. The mic sounds ok, nothing special, but it may be a little bit on the quiet side in my opinion. I had to turn the gain up +10dB through windows to be heard in discord. It's very light and comfortable for a gaming headset and the cable is pretty long compared with other wired headsets I've used. The colour scheme looks awful but the headset design itself is kind of cool. It's plasticky but doesn't feel cheap. Overall it's a thumbs up from me.

For gaming, they are absolutely class. There are more expensive headphones that have X and Y features and go on and on about how they can make you hear the other player breathing in the other side of the map. Nonsense. These headphones are as good as they come for gaming. You hear everything in the game as crisp as the sound design of the game allows you too. That alone is enough to recommend them but the headphones have more features. For listening to music, 10/10 you would have to go to the £500+ bracket to get better sounding headphones. For everyday use, I use this headphones for taking calls. The microphone is rather good and both the people I call and my teammates in videogames appreciate that. Get over the fact they are not wireless, they are worth it. 10/10

The headset is comfortable, and reminds me a lot about my old Game One's. These could be seen as an update to those headphones. While the headset was great, the microphone lets in a lot of breathing sounds. I compared this against a ATH-M50xSTS-USB and a ModMic Wireless in a Teams call. In isolation, this device would have done well, but everyone on the call found this to be the worst performer. What surprised me, is that the ModMic wireless turned out to be the best performer - the ATH was really clear, but was too loud. I realise I could find a way to turn down the gain - however, I left all devices at default settings when doing this test. Back to the PC38X, so the sound is good, but the mic could be better. I then compared these to my Sennheiser HD560s, and I found the 560s to provide better sound. The hinges on the PC38x are not as sturdy as on the 560's - I think they would be far more likely to break. My suggestion is - if you want an easy solution, choose the PC38X. But if you are prepared to spend a bit more, consider a pair of 560's with a ModMic USB. It will be annoying with the cables, but I think the performance increase is worth it.

As you'd expect from Sennheiser, the sound quality is very solid - great detail and a reasonably wide sound stage, thanks to the open design. As other reviews mentioned, the open design also comes at the cost of reduced isolation: you'll hear more of the background noise in the room (if you're somewhere noisy), and also people around you will hear what you're listening to (it's not too bad, but not perfectly quiet either, like you'd get with closed-back headphones). I use this primarily with my PS5, plugged into the controller, and it works really well. One thing to note is that the cable comes with a L-shaped plug, which is not the most convenient when plugged into the controller, but it's not a big deal. In terms of comfort, I have a head that's on the larger side, and these fit me well without putting too much pressure on. They are also fairly light, so you'll barely notice they are there, even during longer gaming sessions. One thing to point out is that the ear cups are on the smaller side - while they do just about fit around my ears, when they shift even a little my ears get caught under them. Again, not a big deal, just something to look out for.

Since I got my PS5 I have been on a quest to try find the best headphones I've had Arctis 7P, Audeze Penrose and Astro A50 Not one of the above headphones get close to the quality of the Sennheiser PC38X I can hear everything on these every small detail. Footsteps in Call of Duty to every little sound in Resident Evil Village or Ghost of Tsushima These cost half the price of the Audeze's and Astros which is another bonus Wired is always better than wireless if you don't want to hear fuzzy sounds, another great thing is you don't need to charge these just plug them into the controller and away you go If you are looking for the best sound quality for PS5 this is the set you need

The mic is the best sounding mic out of the majority of gaming headsets (I’ve watched a comparison video on YouTube). However, it’s got an open back so obviously not noise cancelling but I already knew that before purchasing. The output is really quiet compared to when I use apple earphones for example. I play valorant and can barely hear the footsteps, I can hear my friends on discord more even though their volume’s a lot lower. I ended up buying a hyperx quad cast s.. I probably wasted my money on that cuz the mic of this is above average.

I previously owned a pair of Sennheiser Game One Black which were open acoustic and we’re of a good quality. Needing to get noise cancelling a headset I thought these would do the job at £290. How very wrong was I, there fairly comfortable but the sound quality is extremely lacking for the price compared to what else is on the market. The noise cancelling seemed to be non existent. I brought these through EKER TRADE CENTRES, most stressful experience of my life trying to return them.

Just received the headphone. It sounds absolutely amazing! a easy 10/10 headphone

Provenendo da un paio di classiche cuffie da gaming la differenza è astronomica, specialmente se siete anche amanti della musica oltre ai videogiochi. Con ogni cuffia da gaming che ho avuto modo di provare c'è sempre stato un fattore comune: i bassi vengono fortemente esagerati, il che non è del tutto da buttare durante il gaming, ma se provate ad usarle anche per ascoltare della musica non hanno assolutamente il bilanciamento adatto per riprodurre fedelmente un brano. Con queste invece è tutta un'altra storia. Nascono come un paio di ottime cuffie da studio alle quali è stato montato un microfono tipico delle periferiche da gaming e questo gli permette di eccellere per ogni tipo di utilizzo che se ne vuole fare. Per darvi un'idea, dalla mia esperienza personale posso dirvi che riascoltando le mie canzoni preferite mi sono accorto di un'intera nuova gamma di suoni che non avevo mai sentito in passato. Inoltre, se non avete mai provato un paio di cuffie open back come queste, fatelo, è davvero un'esperienza fantastica. PRO: + Qualità del suono eccezionale per il prezzo alla quale vengono vendute + Molto comode, leggere e fresche (essendo open back l'aria non rimane intrappolata) + In dotazione due cavi rivestiti in nylon che vi permettono di collegarle a qualsiasi dispositivo tramite il jack da 3.5mm, ma anche un'ottima busta in stoffa per il trasporto + Per lo più realizzate in plastica, ma sembrano davvero robuste e danno una sensazione premium + Qualità audio del microfono sopra le aspettative, nessuno dei vostri amici si lamenterà del vostro microfono + Ottimo il feedback dei controlli presenti sulle cuffie: potenziometro per il volume e muto del microfono sollevando l'asta + Il design open back vi permette di sentire il tono della vostra voce e evita spiacevoli inconvenienti nelle sessioni serali CONTRO: - Si collegano solo tramite cavo con jack audio da 3.5mm - Open back è sinonimo di assenza di ogni tipo di isolamento acustico: se siete soliti giocare in ambiente rumoroso queste cuffie non fanno per voi; se invece, come me, l'unico rumore presente nella stanza è quello del vostro PC fisso, allora non avrete problemi

Buena calidad de audio, buen microfono, buen largo del cable. Son cómodos y tienen un buen peso, además de que la caja incluye cojines extra para cambiar cuando lleguen a inevitablemente desgastarse los primeros con el tiempo.

Das PC38x finde ich vom Tragecomfort und vor allem vom Klang mit der offenen Bauweise her hervorragend. Viele bemängeln am Anfang den hohen Anpressdruck, aber bei meinem Kopf hat es anscheinend gepasst. Es ist sehr leicht und mit den Stoffpolstern auch über Stunden angenehm zu tragen (beiliegende Velourpolster habe ich nicht getestet). Ich teste alle Headsets immer in der Dolby Atmos App an meiner Xbox Series X mit der Sound-Demo „Amaze“. Leider musste ich hier feststellen, dass beim Donnergrollen, also bei tiefen Frequenzen, die Membrane anfangen zu klappern oder zu rasseln. Das habe ich aber auch beim H6pro oder dem Game One von Sennheiser festgestellt. Vielleicht liegt es an der offenen Bauweise. Ich möchte das Headset aber deswegen nicht abwerten, da es im normalen Spielbetrieb nicht wahrnehmbar war. Für die offene Bauweise hat das Headset erstaunlich gute Bässe. Ich habe das Produkt dennoch zurückgeschickt, da meine anderen meist geschlossenen Headsets sehr wohl mit tiefen Frequenzen ohne Verzerrungen umgehen können. Für den Preis (im Sale 140€) möchte ich auf jeden Fall ein tadelloses Produkt. Leider konnte ich bisher kein anderes offenes Headset finden.

For the last few weeks I have been to my local big box store bringing home one expensive gaming headset after another to try, only to have to drive back in and return it to try another. I started with all the heavy hitter wireless sets, and while some were comfortable and sounded DECENT, none of them really made me feel like I was getting any appreciable bang for my buck: in the end, the audio always felt completely CRUSHED when things got hectic in Warzone, making it difficult to discern what is happening around me (directional accuracy is incredibly important). Ultimately, I decided that since I primarily play on PC, perhaps I should consider a wired set. So looking at all of the reviews, I quickly landed on the Astro a40's with the Mixamp Pro as the defacto standard for gamers in terms of a wired set. Everyone talks about how great these are. Sound quality was certainly better than any of the wireless headsets I tried (including Astro's own wireless version of this headset, the a50's) but it was still just not quite what I was looking for and for the price and all the extra hardware sitting on my desktop, I wasn't particularly thrilled with the value to dollar ratio. After a night of Warzone and not really feeling like they were that great, I decided that it was time to keep looking. Feeling like I had exhausted every option available at the aforementioned big box store, I came here. I saw these PC38x's come up over and over again from everyone that tried them saying that most gaming headsets are garbage compared to these, but since they weren't available at any local store, they stayed mostly off of my radar. I decided to just go for it and ordered a set. Showed up the same day, plugged them in, and was immediately blown away. No mixamp/DAC. No software to install. Just plug in directly to the PC, and away I go. Compared to all of the other headsets I have used in the last month, these are in a totally different class, and it's not even close. They aren't harsh at all, directional audio is excellent (footsteps are not overly loud, but when the sound quality is this good, they don't need to be). In game voice chat doesn't seem to trample all over the game audio, and on top of all of that, they are super light and really comfortable. Mic sounds great too (and I wish ALL headsets could be muted by flipping up the mic like this one with that nice audible click). I will be returning the a40's for sure, and saving almost $100 in the process. I couldn't be happier. Save yourself all of the time and money and just buy these. Of all of the gaming upgrades I have made, these are, strangely, maybe the most transformative of them all in terms of how they affect how I play Warzone. They just sound amazing. And if you also like to listen to music, these actually sound good for that too.