Everglide s-500 Headphone Review

Lincoln 'PrOpHeT' Grixti writes "The Everglide s-500 Headphone is the ultimate tool for gamers that pass long hours using their headset for their gaming needs. It has been designed for gamers, by gamers, with the aid of leading world-wide professionals such as Sander "Voo" Kaasjager and other CPL World Tour Winners. The headset is available for sale with a price tag of $99.99 from Everglide Store. Some might say it's quite expensive for a headset, but when compared to other professional gaming headsets, the price is quite cheap." update Sorry folks, apparently the linked website barfed.

Comments

Nice ad

[briancarnell]

Hey, that's a nice ad. How much would it cost to have Cmdr Taco post my ad on Slashdot?

Re:Nice ad

[Tim C]

Exactly what I was thinking - "Never mind how much the headset cost, how much was this ad?"

slashads

[Anonymous Coward]

welcome to slashad.
Ads for nerds. Stuff that pays well.

Headphones?

[Guppy06]

Yeah, one more thing to tether you to your desk, as if the sacred cows of mouse and keyboard weren't enough.

But at least you're getting five more frames per second than a console, right?

Re:Headphones?

[Razed By TV]

But at least you're getting five more frames per second than a console, right?

Yeah, because everybody knows computer gaming is about milking every last frame out of your box, and that it has nothing to do with the selection and playability of games.

You don't get a huge selection of RTS games on a console simply because it's so cumbersome to play them without a mouse and keyboard. You don't get Warcraft 3, Dragonshard, or Empire at War. You don't get 15 different flavors of Command & Conquer. Maybe, with the newer consoles that support USB, we'll start seeing RTS console games that use a mouse and keyboard. Until then, the PC has a genre of game almost entirely to itself.

And then, there are FPS games. I used to play Goldeneye and Perfect Dark for hours on N64. They were great. I couldn't imagine how they could be better. Then I played Quake, on my schools crummy computers, with a mouse and a keyboard. It was amazing! I could look around, I could see everything! I could even jump! Goldeneye would have been twice as good if it had had that keyboard and mouse combo. Again, with the newer consoles, mouse and keyboard might become pretty standard. But until it does, can you guess where I'm playing my (rts/fps) games?

Re:Headphones?

[MustardMan]

Yeah, because, you know... no one ever uses a headset on an xbox or playstation.

Gaming Headset?!

[Fulg]

If you want a decent headset, get a Sennheiser... For the same price you will get much much better sound quality. Even TFA mentions this particular headset isn't great for music.

What makes this a "gaming" headset? The bundled microphone? The carrying bag? The price? The fact that it comes in a box?

Re:Competition? hardly.

[oskard]

The Jawbone thing looks like it only goes on one ear. The point of sound in competitive video games is so that the player can 'bi-angulate' the sound and know exactly where the opponent is. This requires two speakers, one for each ear.

Self-destruct button?

[bubbaD]

"Designed for gamers, by gamers" That's completely unimpressive, especially when it comes to audio equipment. What the hell do "gamers" bring to the table- Requests for bigger 'splosions? Special detectors for when Mommy calls dinner's ready?
Give me a break!

Wrong section

[Jeng]

Seriously, where's the Foot?

This qualifies for "Laugh, its funny."

It's like one went out to write the worst possible advertisement/review of a crappy product, then submitted it to Slashdot just to have people sit and critize it.

This seriously has gotta be a joke.

Re:Competition? hardly.

[thumb1]

Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the Jawbone a binaural (either ear, but not both) headset? It looks high-tech, and no doubt it is great for conversation, but mono doesn't make it for games.

~T

Re:speaker delay

[Andy Dodd]

If they were USB, I could understand a desire to lower the latency of the system. Some USB headsets may actually have unacceptable latency for gaming.

That said, these are pure analog headphones. From the looks of it, highly overpriced ones. Philips HN100 active noise cancelling headphones (good for killing fan noise) run around $60-70 retail, and you can find them for $15-20 INCLUDING S&H on eBay.

These headphones also don't have a built-in boom mic, just a shitty lapel mic that is completely seperate from the headphones. If they were comfortable, had a built-in boom mic, and were USB based, then they might be worth $99. As it is, they look like they aren't even worth as much as my old $30-at-Best-Buy Aiwas, let alone my HN100s.