Turtle Beach PX3: Crap

[humbug]

I bought these brand new of the Flea Market for £30.

Very Cheap considering they were a great deal more expensive when released a couple of years ago, something like £90.

to be frank i can't stand them, its put me off the brand completely.

Build quality is ok
Sound is better than ok but not great
The mike is a bit crap, people complain they can't hear me that well and when I look at the input bars sure enough its hardly registering my voice.

It has a sound / game profiling thing, it gives you a list of firmware with arbitrary description like "High voice Low In Game" or some crap which if selected will flash to the headset and i cannot tell any difference with any of them.... and some more annoying stuff.

But what really gets me is the system state indicator LED, all if does is flash green to indicate its on, no indication of the batter getting low, all you do get is bleeping in the ear 2 minutes before it dies, if you manage to plug it into to charge before it dies it will die anyway, you have to turn it off and then on again while charging to use it while charging, while charging you get a single red flashing LED, nothing to indicate when its fully charged, in fact Turtle Beach say the light will go off completely at 75% to indicate its ready to use, not at 100% but 75% and who in there right mind indicates ready to use by removing all indicators that its even alive?!?!?!

If you do use it between your guess work if its charged enough to use for a while after a 75% charge and some previous use..... don't whatever you do let it run without any sound for it to process because it will do that for you, it will beep at you constantly to indicate there is no audio to processes and then shut off after a while of doing that.

yep... i cannot stand the thing, its the first and last Turtle Beach headset for me.

If you see it on the flea market and think its a good deal, think again.

 

[.:SAmSuNG:.]

It's a gaming headset. Enough said.

 

[lucid]

Gaming isn't my thing but my son is 12 so it's definitely his.

He said he wanted something better than the cheapie headset he had because people couldn't hear him. His budget was the £50 left over from his birthday money. I did a bit of research and came to the conclusion that unless he'd be spending quite a bit more that they all have a common problem: crap mics. The other challenge was he wanted something that looked like Beats but in a lairy colour

It took a bit to convince him before I ordered, but I said that if my suggestion didn't work then I'd give him his money back and he could go buy what he'd seen online. What I got for him was a Sony ECMCS3 tie clip mic with a USB sound adapter.

Since I was about to reply to this thread and he has been using this now for about 4 or 5 months I thought I'd ask him how he is getting on with it still. He said the sound is brilliant. Others can hear him really very clearly. It's much clearer than his mates who have ordinary headsets. He described listening to his mates and said when they're not talking then their mics either cut off or he can hear raspy breathing

You found the Turtle Beach headset on a car boot.... only a couple of years old.... for £30. Aren't they about that much new in-store anyway?

 

[MissChief]

I've had a Turtle Beach headset in the past and they were ok, nothing fancy and acceptable quality, but like every headset I've had so far they broke after about 14-16 months. These ones split above on of the ear muffs.

 

[humbug]

@ lucid, No, I got the brand new off Ebay for £30, they are simply end of line, originally £99.99, a high end head-set.

As a head-set they are not really bad, I wouldn't say they were ever worth £100 but they are nice and the sound quality is pretty good, they are also comfortable and the wireless is good.

The problem with them is user ergonomics.

There is no indication of which of the many sound modes its running because it uses a daft firmware flashing system instead of them all being pre-programed with a desktop UI to indicate which mode its running. so you don't really know whats going on with it.

Charging by design it will only go to 75% and then the LED goes off, again from there on its guess work if its still charging or not.

when it runs low you have to turn it off and on again to get it to take the charge you plugged into it.

If there isn't a constant stream of audio for it to process it will beep annoyingly in your ear, if sitting for two minutes with no sound its Beep Beep Beep Beep..... to make it stop for a minute click on something to make the PC generate a sound......

Yeah its just things like that which make what is a good head-set really annoying to use.