Audeze Maxwell Wireless Gaming Headset for Xbox, PS, Mac, & PC by Audeze

I came from the senhieser momentum 3s. These guys I’d say are 3-5 times better sounding. They are 200 grams heavier than my old headset but are comfier to wear. I do feel the additional weight after ~6 hours of use. But I’m sure will go away as I use this daily and my neck gets used to it. I love the features. The range is GREAT I go anywhere in my house with perfect connectivity. I did have to move the dongle to a port on a less restricted port ( back to from port ). I haven’t had to charge them yet so I guess the battery is great !! Music sounds incredible, I take the microphone off when I listen in bed but put on for gaming. I paid 450$ cad all in all for this. I believe this product is extremely fairly priced for what you get. They take a little bit to get used to but once you do they are quite a pleasure. I have no issue believing these will last for a long time. There are also many updates to software which is nice to see. There was a French review that when I translated it called headsets “helmets” but I can’t help but think of these as my helmet hetset. There huge. But comfortable, they really hide it in the design. I’m impressed and am happy audeze made a high quality headset with a fair price. I believe this is the new gold standard for wireless music/gaming headsets

Let me start by saying I was SO excited to get these after researching and seeing the reviews about how great they are. I wanted to drink the Kool Aid and I was not able to. In fact, I’m very wary of the articles I read saying these are good. I bought TWO PAIRS for my partner and I. Here was my experience:

THE GOOD:
-The sound quality is pretty much as good as they say. Crystal clear with nice heavy bass. I’m not an audiophile by any means but it just sounded good. I’m happy to give credit where it is due.
-Battery life: I didn’t use them long enough to benefit, but it’s hard to beat 80 hours.
-That’s literally it.

THE BAD (here we go):
-The software on these things is so bad that I gave up using them after 20 minutes of trying to get by with them. The firmware included in the headset cuts out the first second of audio from any “new” source. Youtube Video, Discord call, Spotify, etc. It seems to want to “fade in” new media sources, but you just end up missing the beginning of whatever you’re trying to hear. There is no setting for this and Audeze literally won’t even acknowledge this if you email their support.

-I know, who really cares about the mic on a high end pair of gaming headset? As long as people can understand you, it’s fine, right? Well, that was too high a standard for the Maxwells, I guess. The mic quality is about the same as the $15 office headset you might use at a call center in Mumbai. It really is that bad. Condensed and muffled to the point that my friends on call were asking if maybe my input had defaulted to my webcam that was 15 feet away. (Ironically, that actually sounded better.) I thought maybe I just got a bad set but I looked up a Youtube video of comparing mic quality (Hardware Canucks has a great video showcasing what I mean) and that is just how they sound. Audeze Support says this poor sound quality is “designed to make your voice sound more natural,” when I emailed them about this.

-Enabling sidetone (which is helpful since they are noise cancelling) introduces an extremely loud hissing noise in a dead quiet room. Turning it down enough to a tolerable level means the sidetone is not really hearable. Furthermore, you can hear the terrible sound quality of the mic in your ear if you can manage to tune out the loud everpresent hissing. Audeze Support says “All headsets do this!” (My 4 year old Arctis headset did not do this, nor do the Razer Blackshark V2 Pros I got to replace my Maxwells, so I almost don’t believe them!)

-Chat app instability (at least in Discord): Many random things just cause the mic to stop sending audio altogether. Turning on your video, deafening briefly, locking my PC would cause the mic to stop working. Audeze has an article on what settings to change for Discord (because why would I want a headset that works out of the box?) and I followed the instructions and then emailed Audeze Support that it didn’t make a difference. They said, “Have you read our article about changing the settings on Discord?”

TL;DR: If you want to use these for console I hear they’re pretty good other than the mic quality. If you are going to just use them for headphones, they’re probably fine (though for 300 USD you can probably find better). For PC gaming, you will be disappointed and your friends will ask why your microphone sounds so bad, and then they’ll say “Why did you stop talking?” If you email support, they will give you a copy/paste response and make you pay to ship them back and send you a pair with the same set of issues. My advice: Don’t bother.

Boyun fıtığı garantili, ağırlık merkezi de kulaklar olduğundan kafanızı sallama hatta öne fazla ve hızlıca eğme ihtimaliniz pek yok. Buna karşılık kablosuz olup bu kadar hızlı tepki süresi ve mikro detay verebilen bir kulaklık yok. Müzikte ve oyunda farkı ciddi, Logitech, Steelseries, Asus, Razer filan bunun yanında çocuk oyuncağı kalıyor(abartmıyorum, bununla dinledikten sonra başka oyun kulaklığına dönemezsiniz). Yine de hafif bir kulaklık alternatifi de şart, belki kablolu, bununla bir gün geçirirseniz ölürsünüz çünkü.

Ottime, indubbiamente l’audio più pulito che abbia mai sentito tra i prodotti “gaming”.

Vorrei scrivere elogi al riguardo, ma conviene andare a leggere recensioni tecniche invece.

Principalmente le uso per PC, personalmente ho preso una versione PlayStation per poter sfruttare l’audio Tempest, ma in realtà o non ho sentito alcuna differenza io o non cambia poi così tanto, conviene prendere la versione Xbox che fornisce la licensa Dolby Atmos per PC inclusa… mica male, quelle PlayStation non lo fanno.

La latenza tramite Wireless e Bluetooth è ottima, unica pecca è che quando non vi sono suoni di alcun tipo il primo playback ha un minimo di ritardo e si perde la prima parte di ciò che si ascolta. Per farla breve, se sei su Windows e non hai suoni ma cominci a sentire un audio tipo di Telegram ti perdi il primo mezzo secondo, stessa cosa per quando si registra col microfono. Indubbiamente è un problema relativo al risparmio energetico, penso lo abbiano quasi tutti e non ho visto se è risolvibile, però durante le varie call nessuno si è mail lamentato.

Qualità del microfono OK, non incredibile ma OK.

La batteria dura veramente tanto, ormai le uso ogni giorno da più di un anno e non mi si sono mai scaricate durante l’utilizzo, ho sempre avuto tantissimo tempo dal primo avviso di batteria scarica.
Comodissimo il fatto che si ricaricano tramite USB-C.

Bello anche il fatto che sia possibile collegare sia al dongle Wireless che al Bluetooth allo stesso tempo, unica pecca è che questa può essere un’arma a doppio taglio.
Se lo collegate al PC (Wireless dongle) e al telefono (bluetooth) sentirete il PC, tranne nel caso in cui ci sia dell’audio nel canale bluetooth, in tal caso non sentirete più il PC ma solo il bluetooth.
Di suo questa cosa è comodissima, bisogna solo fare attenzione alle notifiche, che potrebbero interrompere il playback del dongle senza motivo, però lì basta smanettare con il telefono.

Mai avuto problemi con tasti e cose varie, non sono leggerissime ma sono incredibilmente comode.
Per la prima volta ho avuto delle cuffie che non hanno avuto bisogno del periodo di “break in”, sono state comode da subito. Inoltre non ho mai avuto problemi relativi a pairing, tasti non funzionanti o cose del genere (che sono state sempre le cause di un cambio cuffie).