As the successor to the uber-popular Turtle Beach X11, the X12 headset has bigger speakers (50mm to 40mm) for better sound, redesigned earcups for more comfort, all while still staying at the same 60 US bucks. Sounds good so far! More »
So here’s the good news: Turtle Beach announced a universal version of their gaming-oriented chat headset. In stereo, it mixes your talking with your gaming perfectly, meaning you won’t be shouting at your teammates (unintentionally). Here’s the bad news: More »
The Gadget: Turtle Beach’s Earforce X4. It’s a wireless surround sound headset that can also plug into an Xbox 360 controller for full Live chatting.
While we enjoyed gaming with the wireless surround sound headphones we tested in our Battlemodo, the major inherent flaw with the systems were their lack of voice-chat capabilities. Now Turtle Beach has announced the Ear Force X4 wireless headphones that combine Dolby 5.1 decoding and voice chat in a package that’s compatible with the Xbox 360.
While it’s not packing the force feedback boom of Ben Heck’s recently unveiled AudioFX Pro 5+1 gaming headset, Turtle Beach’s latest 5.1 surround sound USB headset (also gamer-oriented), the Ear Force AK-R8, will sock your skull with dual sub-woofers and eight speakers. Eight.
Besides sporting a removable boom mic, it features a 10-band, six-channel EQ and allows you to hear outside sounds as well. (Though I’m not sure why you’d want to be distracted by the real world or your girlfriend during a hardcore fragging session.) The $150 price tag seems reasonable for a solid headset, but that could just be because I’m hung up on the eight speakers—the $30 pair on my desk seem so inadequate now. – Matt Buchanan
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