AudezeMaxwell Wireless Gaming Headset for PlayStation, Mac, PC, and Switch

Have had these for 1.5 years and use them every day for an average of 5+ hours, except when on vacations or trips. They still work the same as on day one. The audio quality is exceptional for gaming and music. You can EQ them to your liking, I started with a V curve for music and a more tuned EQ for gaming. Over time though, I adapted to the bass boost preset (close to the Audeze preset) and I've gotten used to it, so now I only use that for everything. I really love these headphones, use them at work for meetings and music (mic is really good) and then after for gaming and discord. The charge lasts a week at least, even with my heavy usage, I usually just charge them overnight when they are low and forget about it. I will say that at the beginning they were heavy and I had to also find the earcups that worked for me. I settled on the Wicked Cushions and after about 2 weeks I no longer felt them heavy on my head. After a month, they were comfortable and still are to this day. I don't really feel them on my head, it just requires getting used to.I recommend these for anyone that is concerned about audio quality and that would also want to use them to hear music. Something I've been doing for the past few months that's also really cool is connecting them to a Bluetooth turntable. They are just amazing for hearing music.

Simply put Amazing!Let me explain…I’ve been gaming for a while. I have owned several headsets over the years. I read tons of reviews online about the Maxwell’s and I was curious. Coming from an Astro A50 my expectations were really high to say the least. I can say that this headset blew me away. It is versatile, powerful and very well built. The sound is very clear. Its directionality and pinpoint accuracy while reproducing 3D environments is close to perfect. I own the PlayStation version. It is compatible with Tempest 3D Sound which was a concern for me but if you own a ps5 rest asure that you will get the best sound possible and the best compatibility as Sony recently acquired Audeze. The most impressive aspect of this headset besides the amazing sounds quality is its battery life! The thing just keeps going!! Nothing is more frustrating than that annoying tone that tells you that you are running out of juice in the middle of a game!! That would probably never happen with the Maxwell. It can go for days or even weeks before needing to recharge. It’s crazy! My main concern before I bought this headset was the weight. I kept hearing in every single review that this was a very heavy set. I was expecting a heavy duty deep sea welding helmet. I did neck exercises 3 weeks prior to its arrival like I was training to drive a formula 1 car in preparation for it. Hey guess what? Coming from a A50 which is a heavy boy as well it was not that bad at all! It is not light headset by any means but I think the balance and weight distribution of the set is superb. You really don’t feel it that much even after playing with it for 5 hours straight. The Maxwell is built to last. It feels premium. It feels and looks expensive. You can definitely hear the difference when you compare it with cheaper sets. Just remember that sound quality is very personal and subjective. Some people may prefer deep bass at the expense of clarity and sound differentiation. Others like sound stage and brightness over a muddy bass. It is all up to you. But I find that this headset would please a lot of people out of the box. The sound is warm, clear, it is loud but not overpowering to the point that you get hearing fatigue. It will let you hear things in your games you didn’t even know were there before. It is consistent, loud and well designed. I have nothing wrong to say about it other than of course… The price. This thing is not cheap! But if you can afford it and are looking for excellent quality, reliability, clear and war sound, excellent battery life, a generous bass and reliability you will not be disappointed with the Maxwells. Guaranteed!!

Let me start by saying I was SO excited to get these after researching and seeing the reviews about how great they are. I wanted to drink the Kool Aid and I was not able to. In fact, I'm very wary of the articles I read saying these are good. I bought TWO PAIRS for my partner and I. Here was my experience:THE GOOD:-The sound quality is pretty much as good as they say. Crystal clear with nice heavy bass. I'm not an audiophile by any means but it just sounded good. I'm happy to give credit where it is due.-Battery life: I didn't use them long enough to benefit, but it's hard to beat 80 hours.-That's literally it.THE BAD (here we go):-The software on these things is so bad that I gave up using them after 20 minutes of trying to get by with them. The firmware included in the headset cuts out the first second of audio from any "new" source. Youtube Video, Discord call, Spotify, etc. It seems to want to "fade in" new media sources, but you just end up missing the beginning of whatever you're trying to hear. There is no setting for this and Audeze literally won't even acknowledge this if you email their support.-I know, who really cares about the mic on a high end pair of gaming headset? As long as people can understand you, it's fine, right? Well, that was too high a standard for the Maxwells, I guess. The mic quality is about the same as the $15 office headset you might use at a call center in Mumbai. It really is that bad. Condensed and muffled to the point that my friends on call were asking if maybe my input had defaulted to my webcam that was 15 feet away. (Ironically, that actually sounded better.) I thought maybe I just got a bad set but I looked up a Youtube video of comparing mic quality (Hardware Canucks has a great video showcasing what I mean) and that is just how they sound. Audeze Support says this poor sound quality is "designed to make your voice sound more natural," when I emailed them about this.-Enabling sidetone (which is helpful since they are noise cancelling) introduces an extremely loud hissing noise in a dead quiet room. Turning it down enough to a tolerable level means the sidetone is not really hearable. Furthermore, you can hear the terrible sound quality of the mic in your ear if you can manage to tune out the loud everpresent hissing. Audeze Support says "All headsets do this!" (My 4 year old Arctis headset did not do this, nor do the Razer Blackshark V2 Pros I got to replace my Maxwells, so I almost don't believe them!)-Chat app instability (at least in Discord): Many random things just cause the mic to stop sending audio altogether. Turning on your video, deafening briefly, locking my PC would cause the mic to stop working. Audeze has an article on what settings to change for Discord (because why would I want a headset that works out of the box?) and I followed the instructions and then emailed Audeze Support that it didn't make a difference. They said, "Have you read our article about changing the settings on Discord?"TL;DR: If you want to use these for console I hear they're pretty good other than the mic quality. If you are going to just use them for headphones, they're probably fine (though for 300 USD you can probably find better). For PC gaming, you will be disappointed and your friends will ask why your microphone sounds so bad, and then they'll say "Why did you stop talking?" If you email support, they will give you a copy/paste response and make you pay to ship them back and send you a pair with the same set of issues. My advice: Don't bother.