On the finish of April, EPOS launched two new colours for his or her H3PRO Hybrid headset. It touts connectivity with gaming consoles, PC, and cellular gadgets; Lively Noise Cancellation (ACN); and extra. EPOS kindly supplied me a pair of the brand new Racing Inexperienced-colored headset and I’ve been making an attempt them out for the final month or so. Whereas they did ship it to me, all of the ideas beneath are my very own.
First, let’s speak in regards to the issues that I’ve not been impressed with. For starters, when used wirelessly (and typically when wired through USB), there’s typically a delay when a sound supply begins which means you miss the primary couple of seconds of audio. I had this whereas utilizing numerous apps, whereas on Zoom calls, and many others. In most everyday life, it’s not essentially a dealbreaker, but it surely was irritating and in some cases I wanted to modify my headphone setup for particular duties. Additionally, the EPOS Gaming Suite may be very unimpressive and I didn’t discover it essentially the most user-friendly expertise. One other factor that bothered me was that I’d maintain down the facility button, right here the excessive pitch sound of the ACN, however until it stated “Energy On” it will shut down after a couple of second after which I’ve to carry it down and ensure I waited till I heard it say “Energy On.” That’s a smile gripe, however a gripe. The ultimate grievance I’ll point out is that the Bluetooth button additionally serves as a Sensible Button, however you possibly can solely set it to both toggle their Encompass Sound or cycle by presets. I’d’ve liked it if I might have it function a play/pause button for once I’m listening to music or watching movies.
One thing that I used to be enthusiastic about was the ACN. I’ve by no means had headphones with that characteristic earlier than. My expertise was that placing the EPOS on blocked a number of noise. Nonetheless, it created what I name a tunnel background sound. The ACN change basically simply adjusted issues to take away that tunnel sound. This does add some readability to no matter you’re listening to and it’s a type of options that after you’re used to it, you discover it, however in the event you haven’t used it earlier than you wouldn’t discover an enormous distinction for some time. General, it’s nonetheless a optimistic level for the EPOS.
The sound high quality of the headphones is de facto good too, and in the event you get the software program to work proper, the EQ skills are primary however good. That being stated, I’m not terribly impressed with the 7.1 encompass sound side. It’s first rate, however I felt prefer it was on par with G Hub from Logitech with my G430 headset which price considerably much less. As for the microphone, I requested folks how I sounded at some weekly recreation periods I’ve and so they stated I sounded roughly the identical as once I used the Samson Q9U. I’ve gone forward and recorded some samples from my Logitech C270 webcam, Logitech G430 headset, Samson Q9U, and EPOS H3PRO Hybrid so that you might be the choose. I used Audacity to set the height amplitude to 0dB for every recording with the next changes: C270 +3.577dB, G430 +4.802dB, Q9U +26.561dB, H3PRO (no voice enhancement) +13.098dB, H3PRO (heat voice enhancement) +11.505dB, H3PRO (clear voice enhancement) +9.963dB. (Please notice that for some cause there’s a number of hiss from the Samson Q9U).
