EPOS Gaming shut down

[Timber]

Bumped into this news earlier from 1st of this month (did not see), taken from r/headphoneadvice

Apparently the parent company has decided to move on and staff let go. Massive shame and one less choice in the gaming audio arena. This year I've picked up their PC38X collab and H6pro headsets. The former is the best gaming headset I've ever heard and probably one of the strongest of any headphone or headset I've experienced for gaming.

Thought I'd post here in case anyone else hadn't heard the news.

 

[bazzabear]

I did wonder if this was the eventual destination when Sennheiser sold off their gaming section. Why would you want rid of it if it was being a resounding success?

 

[Grey M@a]

First few minutes of this video he reads out the statement from the parent company that owns EPOS:

Seems they have suffered a down turn since the lockdowns etc and decided not to proceed with the products and just offering warranty for products already out there for now.

 

[Timber]

I think it's just a very competitive market albeit one that has grown with the shift to Live Services and online gaming in recent years.

Also there seems to be some consolidation going on and renewed focus from platform holders which may not help either. So Astro & Blue being owned by Logitech and Sony buying Audeze, for example.

 

[Grim5]

Gaming headsets are a scam anyway, this is just a natural evolution of the market

 

[MissChief]

This is a shame. I have a set of their GSP300's and they're still going strong after 5 years or so although my son uses them now and I have a set of GSP370 wireless ones. Charge lasts ages, up to 200 hours although range isn't the best.

 

[GregI]

Gaming headsets are a scam anyway, this is just a natural evolution of the market

Agreed. I kind of liked the Kingston Hyper X Cloud II as for £35 it was hard to beat. Then HP took over and that went down the drain.

I think something like the Philips SHP9500 (budget) or Sennheiser 560S (premium) for gaming is just the endgame anyway.

 

[Disco_P]

Gaming headsets are a scam anyway, this is just a natural evolution of the market

It's not though is it. Those making cheap plasticy Rgb "gamer" headsets (razer, corsair, logitech etc.) are making crap tonnes of money. Epos (well Sennheiser at least) made very high quality stuff that lasted. I know for a fact that some of them were just regular sennheiser headphones with a good automuting mic attached.

 

[Grim5]

It's not though is it. Those making cheap plasticy Rgb "gamer" headsets (razer, corsair, logitech etc.) are making crap tonnes of money. Epos (well Sennheiser at least) made very high quality stuff that lasted. I know for a fact that some of them were just regular sennheiser headphones with a good automuting mic attached.

Some of the earlier like pcx and the old game models re-used tweaked drivers from normal headphones but with the EPOS stuff the quality went down and the audio quality was often beating by other headsets at the same prices. A lot of headsets are overturned with bumped up lows and I've yet to try one that doesn't have a bad mic

 

[Rroff]

I did wonder if this was the eventual destination when Sennheiser sold off their gaming section. Why would you want rid of it if it was being a resounding success?

Sennheiser depress me lately - they've killed off a lot of innovative or more interesting products and have a kind of mismatched consumer product range I guess focusing more on whatever is the latest hit but those are congested market places where they don't offer enough/don't stand out vs the brands heavily being pushed by influencers.