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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.
Hey, that's a nice ad. How much would it cost to have Cmdr Taco post my ad on Slashdot?
I still think the Jawbone PC edition http://www.aliph.com/main/pc_edition.htm is far superior to it.
The Everglide doesn't even come with the highend military grade noise reduction stuff the Jawbone sports.
Not even in the same class.
"fantastic contrast between its black and silver colours give the Everglide s-500 a futuristic look that makes it the first one of a genre"
Damn! They were actually able to achieve a contrast between black and silver colours? That's pretty much what I look for in headphones -- high contrast -- and clearly this set is really on the cutting edge.
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?
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I only buy products endorsed by Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel.
"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!
Yeah, because, you know... no one ever uses a headset on an xbox or playstation.
I see. I knew there was something wrong when my $20 headphones would actually store up the sound for like 10 milliseconds before playing any of it. Thank goodness this company built speaker drivers "faster than most conventional speaker drivers found in traditional headphones, making the Everglide s-500 optimized for millisecond feedback."
Now I can listen to games without my speaker drivers storing up all the sound before spitting it out.
And it's a good thing they optimized these for games because games produce sound, like, way cooler than music can. And it's directional, whereas music just comes in stereo and binaural forms, which aren't directional at all. And they can pinpoint sound to a pixel, which is cool because I have a lot of pixels.
And it's good they made these comfortable, because people who listen to music only spend like a few hours listening, whereas a gamer like myself will typically game for 48+ hours, so I need that extra level of comfort.
And it's cool they reproduce the full 20 Hz - 20 kHz sounds range; just looking at sub-$500, I have yet to find a pair of regular "music" headphones that can do 20 Hz. (Of course they spec their cans at +/-1dB or +/-3dB; maybe these people spec to +/-60dB, in which they might be right.)
Fortunately, if anyone buys these, he or she must be so enamored with the purchase that he/she will think that he/she has the best set of headphones (for gaming) in the world. And ignorant happiness will ensue. So buyer and seller will have achieved their goals.
Sennheiser makes some great headphones, but I'd take a USA-made Grado set over Sennheiser any day.
http://www.gradolabs.com
Even the basic SR-80 phones (around $80.00) are excellent. And you're supporting a nice family-owned & run business, with a 50 year history.
There's a Starman, waiting in the sky / He'd like to come and meet us, but he hasn't got the time.
It is a good idea to store this packaging so to be able to transport the headset in it when going to LAN-Parties and other similar events where you cannot lack not having the Everglide s-500 Headphones.
/snarky, I know
I cannot begin to not misunderstand the failure of grasping the un-concept of this sentence.
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What does this mean? Accurate to the pixel? These are just headphones, not a 20-speaker surround system. This whole review is written this way.
"In fact, making the speaker driver very sensible to minimal audio response resulted in this Headphone to lack in Bass audio quality."
Not only did the author use "sensible" instead of "sensitive", they also make an erroneous connection between the speaker sensitivity and bass response. In fact, it appears that the author doesn't understand speaker sensitivity. The speakers are supposed to be super-lightweight, so they make sounds faster than regular speakers, so no one can sneak up on you in a game. The result of this is apparently the lack of Bass (why the caps?). Both of those statements make absolutely no sense.
This review is nothing but a VERY poorly written ad. If you're going to post ads on Salshdot, Taco, at least read the damn things first.