We won't go into the technicalities, but open-backed headphones are supposed to have inherently better sound-quality characteristics than closed-back ones, and that's easy to believe when you plug in the PC 360 G4ME. Sennheiser has been making headphones for long enough to know how to make them sound good, and that's very much the case for the PC 360 G4ME. With the PC 360 G4ME, Sennheiser is clearly eyeing up the vast hordes of World of Warcraft players, or devotees of other MMOs. If playing games for sustained periods is your thing, though, this gaming headset was clearly designed with you in mind. The open-back design does indeed allow air to flow through, which is a slightly odd sensation at first – and, of course, it lets you hear everything that is going on around you, which could be a good or bad thing depending on your point of view. The huge earcups and velvety cushioning combine with plenty of adjustability to fit all conceivable sizes and shapes of human heads, and feel very nice to wear indeed. If there was one word that you would imagine Sennheiser's designers had in mind when they sat down to sketch out the PC 360 G4ME, that word would be “comfort”. It would have been nice if Sennheiser had included an Xbox 360 controller audio adaptor with the headset, although admittedly you can pick them up for under a fiver. Or at least, so you would imagine.īut the Xbox 360's quirky design means that you're best off investing in an adaptor that fits into the audio outputs on your controller, presuming you prefer to attach your Xbox 360 to your TV with an HDMI cable.Ĭonnect the headset to a PC or Mac couldn't be simpler, at least, although it will be at the mercy of the quality of the sound card in your computer, unlike Creative Labs' (more expensive) Sound Blaster Recon 3D Omega. Indeed, the Sennheiser PC 360 G4ME keeps it super-simple, with standard jacks for headphone and mic, and nothing else to worry about. The upside of wired gaming headsets is that they're inevitably easier to set up than wireless ones: they don't require dongles or the like. There's is one other cool design element, though: flip the boom microphone up, and it mutes automatically. While it's easy to find and operates quite loosely, it looks and feels a tad flimsy. Its only disappointing design aspect is a volume knob recessed into the right earcup. Padding on the earcups and the bottom of the headband has a pleasantly velvet-like feel and, while the plastic that forms its main body isn't the most tactile you'll ever come across, it certainly feels robust. Unlike the Creative Labs Sound Blaster Recon 3D Omega and Gioteck EX-05, it's a wired, as opposed to wireless, headset, but at least it has a good 15 feet of wire.
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