Customer Reviews

Edimensional Audiofx Gaming Headset

5 star:		(23)
4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(6)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

This headset is an absolute must for any hardcore gamer, especially if you play any of your games online. I have found these headphones to be superior not just to all of the cheap lightweight headsets on the market, but to other pure headphones that I have tried as well. The sound quality is excellent, so much that I can hear little details with these headphones that I can't hear otherwise. The vibration feature is everything that it is advertised to be and more. It's one of those things that I don't want to live without now when I play my games. It can be overpowering if you turn it up too high, but if you fine tune it, it adds a subtle layer of intensity to any first person shooter or any game with lots of explosions or heavy sounds. The microphone is too short, but I haven't had any problems with it. It's a little bit like using a cell phone.

My only problem with these headphones is that the durability isn't what I would have hoped for. I am on my third set in about three years, but I would never buy anything else. I have never come close to finding anything else that augments my gaming experience like these headphones, and if you are still in doubt, I highly recommend them.

The AudioFX simply blows away anything else in the price range. Normally I would say it fits into the under $50 price range, but the sound quality and noise canceling mic beats virtually all other sub-$100 headsets I've tried, not to mention the incredible force feedback effect. This is a great implementation of force feedback technology, because you can actually sense which direction sounds are coming from. So if you're in a FPS game, you can sense bombs going off ahead of you and feel the recoil of your rifle blast. You can also head footsteps approaching, especially down the dark halls of Doom 3. The lights on the side don't provide any real benefit, but they look cool at LAN parties and definitely get some attention. I'm super-happy with this headset and I've gotten a lot of other people to buy them as well.

I first bought a pair of EDimensional AudioFX force-feedback headphones about two and a half years ago, and I'm buying another pair right now after my 2.5 year old pair finally broke (they fell off the desk and the plastic which holds both earpieces to the headband cracked. They were dangling by the wires and I taped them up but it just doesn't do them justice).

First off, to dispel the myths, do not be confused by other reviews which say listening to music is terrible. The vibration effect IS highly undesirable while listening to music, and it CAN and SHOULD be turned off. The vibration effect is there when you want to use it. To come into purchasing these headphones with the thought that everything you can possibly listen to on them will be better with vibration effect is sheer idiocy. That's comparable to when you hear people with cheap but powerful sound systems in their cars, where the sub woofers crank out so much vibration that the whole trunk rattles. You want power and sound quality, but vibration is generally UNDESIRABLE. If you want front-row rock concert style where you can feel the music, you don't need a vibration effect, you need sheer volume. You need to buy a large sound system capable of blasting out high-powered sound-waves you can actually feel. That's not the point of this headset.

Now to properly adjust your force-feedback experience, there are three controls on the wire-control: volume, vibration, and an on-off switch for the vibration. Almost everybody nowadays is familiar with in-wire volume control, the vibration on-off is great for switching between your games and other listening activities, and the vibration control dial is great for tuning in the effect exactly where you want it to be. And to dispel another myth of this headset, when you turn off the vibration, the bass on the headphones in music or movies sounds great. Nothing is lost because vibration is off, nor does the headset rely on the vibration effect for its bass. It sounds great.

The sound quality of the headphones is outstanding. Sound output quality is excellent; microphone input quality is equally excellent. The microphone is short but proper placement is about 3-4 inches away from the corner of the mouth. In this position I've never had any problem communicating through VoIP programs or using sound-controlled programs on the computer after correctly configuring the microphone input levels. The sound quality is great for all around computer use, listening to music, watching movies and online video, communication over VoIP, etc. And when you're playing games, the force-feedback feature makes for a great time.

As far as durability is concerned, I'm not sure where a few other reviewers are having their problems. I'm replacing a two year old set right now, and these guys have gone through a lot. They've been back and forth between college dorm and home several times a semester; tucked in a laptop case as I take them along whenever I take a laptop; survived several hundred falls off my desk; sustained the continual beating that goes with taking them off quickly, tossing them on the desk, and other typical less-than-gentle motions, and it took until this final violent drop from my desk to break them. And while the plastic frame is broken, everything still works.

All in all, it's a great headset that compares in quality to many of the other "top gaming headsets" (which are better classified as popular online gaming fanboy headsets) you find in razer, icemat, steelseries, with the added force feedback feature that you just aren't finding in these other sets. EDimensional even has a higher-quality 5.1 set to keep up with the very high-end sets as well. I would definitely recommend this headset to anyone looking to make a small investment on a good headset which will be reliable for several years.

These are sweet. I would highly suggest getting a pair. I wasn't sure if this was going to work well but I bought them anyway based on some of the online review. I was also concerned about the rumble feature. But I have to tell you I was more than impressed with this unit and will be enjoying these for years to come. There is no point in using a regular headset or external speakers, the realism doesn't come close to these. Remember when they first came out with force feedback a long time ago?? Well they have never made them for sound and I think these will be a hit. They are for me and my friends who I'm convincing now to get one!

This is the best headset I've ever used for gaming, better than even more expensive models I've tried. It's comfortable with plenty of padding around the ears and head and is fully adjustable. Also the mic is flexible and can be moved out of the way. What really sets this product apart is the force feedback feature. It sounds like a surround sound system in a headset. In FPS games like CS, you can tell where the enemies are coming from because you can kind of feel the footsteps. Once you turn the force feedback off, you really realize how much you're missing. It's like a whole other dimension to the game. And you can adjust the force feedback so if it's too much you turn it down. Definitely get these!

as an FYI: I bought this thinking it was a USB headset, and it turns out yes you do plug it into the USB port (for power only), but you also have to plug it into your soundcards output and mic in to get sound/use the mic. I was trying to avoid this since I still wanted to use my regular computer speakers without crawling behind the pc and switching plugs... but that is exactly what I'm having to do.

Pros:

sound quality

mic works great, and clear

cons:

if used for hours at a time they make my ears hurt

This is a great gaming headset, especially at this price! My boyfriend and I have had ours for a few months and are very pleased with the durability (some more expensive sets have fallen apart within a few weeks). Since we both have a set, we're able to test the sending/recieving ability. This set is high quality: voices come through loud and clear with no static. The vibration feature is amazing. You feel surrounded by the game and it also adds a perception of "deep bass" that you don't usually get with headphones.

I needed a cheap headset with a microphone, quickly. I overnighted these and expected them to be cheaply made and for the audiofx force feedback aspect of it to be nothing more than a worthless, insulting gimmick.

Surprisingly, it isn't. When you're playing a game, you actually feel a bit like you're in a tank or dodging explosions or taking fire. For the price, I found these to be astonishingly good gaming headphones. If you turn off the drivers, it would probably make a decent music and movie headphone, but not exceptional by any means. Further, it is a well-made, durable product. This isn't a cheap, light piece of disposable plastic.

The weight may be a negative over prolonged periods of use. The light-up sides of the earpieces are idiotic and silly. The earpieces could be bigger as they tend to overlap over some people's ears and that is uncomfortable. Most of all, the microphone is TERRIBLE. It has decent recording quality, but the microphone is SO SHORT that for it to pick up your voice on an adult-sized head, you would have to turn your application's audio recording sensitivity so high that it also picks up significant ambient noise in the background.

These would make a great gift for a teenager who plays a lot of games and needs a headset with a microphone. I can't suggest this item for an adult unless they can try one on somewhere to make sure the microphone will fit their head. Otherwise, if you're not too concerned about the length of the microphone, this might also be a great purchase for you.

The main point to stress, however, is that the whole "force feedback" thing actually works well. I'm a very skeptical person and let my curiosity get the better of me. And I was rewarded with a rather decent headset that I'll surely use often even after I find a more general replacement set.

I bought this thinking that the rumble would enhance my gaming experience. it actually doesnt. The rumble is just an annoying head shake. it doesnt give you a better location of enemies at all! which is the main thing I was looking forward to from these. The mic doesnt even work at all! I didnt know this until a couple months after I bought these when I went to finally use the mic for the first time. I now have to use a separate mic to communicate with teammates during online games.

The sound is good quality and for music they are just as good as my old phillips headset (which i always loved), which suprised me. I didnt think they would be as good for music as they are. Which is why my review is 2 stars instead of 1. The biggest thing to me is the price. 40 bucks is not worth the rumble that doesnt even work as you might expect. I actually leave the rumble off during gaming because it is just flat out annoying! Not to mention a broken mic, which I am not the only one, read some other reviews and you will see others have had the same DOA mic problem with these.

I'm a bit disappointed -- perhaps it was me for not doing enough research, but these headphones are HEAVY. I feel like I've strapped a couple of speakers to my ears.

The sound quality is fine, and I can't give it a one-star because of that, but for a gaming headset, these are entirely too heavy. I'll be looking to replace these as soon as possible.