Audeze Maxwell Wireless Gaming Headset for PlayStation, Mac, PC, and Switch

To try and keep things brief, I'll just say that my experience with this product aligns with the many reviews you can find on YouTube. If you're looking for a wireless headset and sound quality/fidelity is the most important thing for you, this is the headset for you. I was watching "Mad Max: Fury Road", and there was a particular scene where the soundtrack had a consistent sub-bass baseline going, while lots of car engines revving, gunshots, explosions, just a wide variety of complex, meaty sounds and these headphones ate it for breakfast, keeping every individual sound distinct and clear, while also having crystal clear dialogue (probably the first time watching this movie where mumbling Tom Hardy's lines were actually easy to hear). Same quality applies for games and music. *Build Quality*: Very good. Probably better off looking up a YT video rather than having me describe it, but for $330 I would probably say it's even better than expected. Mostly metal/leather, little plastic. *Comfort*: This will vary from person to person. These are definitely heavier headphones than what most people will have tried up to now. For me, I don't find them uncomfortable. I wear them for work, and they fall within the range of "forget they're there" when I'm focused on a task. Same goes for gaming/movies. I do hear from other people that the weight or fit doesn't work for them, and I can see that being the case. *Battery Life*: I haven't timed it, but I'll just say that the 80-hour target seems realistic. They last a really, really long time. *Polish*: It's important to know ahead of time that Audeze is not a huge company on the same level as Sony/Bose/Sennheiser, and as such the UX isn't going to be up to the same level of polish as those other companies. For me, I only really care if my headphones sound good, are comfortable enough, and connectivity and all that functions, so some of the occasional "jankiness" of the Audeze app and such don't bother me, but this is up to you. I've head of people having issues with firmware updates and needing to do factory resets and things like that. Just know that at $300-$330, these headphones are actually priced very aggressively. To find better sound quality on a wireless headphone you'd probably need to buy a Focal Bathy at $700. All the budget went into "core" headphone functionalities (sound, build). For me this is a feature, since I get more of what I care about for the $$, but other people might want something with more polish, in the form of responsive apps, ANC, etc., which is fine.

These headphones are absolutely insane... In my opinion these are the only "gaming" headphones you should buy if you also care about sound quality (I'll also mention why those two go hand in hand) as nothing at this price sounds as good as these do. These sound like a pair of $800 headphones no joke and beat everything in this price range. Oh and did I mention they are wireless! Yes the best way to listen to these headphones is using the dongle and you get nearly zero latency that's imperceivable and very usable for competitive gaming. The magnetic planar drivers are otherworldly. You can hear every little detail its amazing and while you can just take these out of the box choose a preset EQ in Audeze HQ and Dolby access I highly recommend playing around with the EQ to find what YOUR ears like because these headphones in my opinion can satisfy 99% of users once tuned to the way THEY like listening to music. But anyways whichever route you go once you put these on you will never be able to listen to music or play a game the same way again its truly life changing. Its like going from a 360p monitor to a 8kUHD 100" TV. While I'm new to this I would still consider myself an audiophile as I love music and sound and these tick every single box. So if you are looking for a wireless headphone that has insane sound quality, ultra low wireless latency, is comfortable, and doesn't look like a tacky gaming headset then get these as nothing even comes close to having all of those things I just mentioned. I will also mention that the build quality is incredible. very little plastic super solid you feel like you are holding a premium product in your hands and when you put them on your head. Now they are heavy but this design takes that into account. The weight distribution is phenomenal on these I can legit wear them all day without fatigue. On that note I would highly recommend getting the Wicked Cushions cool cushions and the v2 headband as those make these way way better for comfort and sound. The battery life is also very close to the advertised 80 hours I can wear these things for days and still have charge and the ability to fast charge and get 20hours in 20 mins is crazy. So if you couldn't tell so far I really really like these headphones and no I'm not being paid to say any of this I just love the product and think others would benefit from my experience. So I hope I was able to help you in making a purchasing decision. Happy listening and gaming! PS. I attached pictures of my settings for both Audeze HQ and Dolby Access if you wanna try them out!

I came from the senhieser momentum 3s. These guys I’d say are 3-5 times better sounding. They are 200 grams heavier than my old headset but are comfier to wear. I do feel the additional weight after ~6 hours of use. But I’m sure will go away as I use this daily and my neck gets used to it. I love the features. The range is GREAT I go anywhere in my house with perfect connectivity. I did have to move the dongle to a port on a less restricted port ( back to from port ). I haven’t had to charge them yet so I guess the battery is great !! Music sounds incredible, I take the microphone off when I listen in bed but put on for gaming. I paid 450$ cad all in all for this. I believe this product is extremely fairly priced for what you get. They take a little bit to get used to but once you do they are quite a pleasure. I have no issue believing these will last for a long time. There are also many updates to software which is nice to see. There was a French review that when I translated it called headsets “helmets” but I can’t help but think of these as my helmet hetset. There huge. But comfortable, they really hide it in the design. I’m impressed and am happy audeze made a high quality headset with a fair price. I believe this is the new gold standard for wireless music/gaming headsets

10/10 audio, 10/10 build quality, 10/10 functionality. The headset is a little on the heavy side.

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Ho solo 2 giorni di utilizzo con queste cuffie epiche, ma posso già dire che è il MIGLIOR headset (da gioco e non) che abbia mai provato (prima usavo le cuffie microsoft wireless, ottime per il prezzo che hanno ma qua siamo su un altro livello). La versione xbox che ho preso ha connettività a ogni dispositivo pensabile, con aux, usb c, usb dongle, bluetooth hai tutte le scelte. Funziona anche su PS5 con audio 3D spostando il pulsante sul dongle su PC, ma il mix audio/chat non funziona. Appena arrivate ho aggiornato sia cuffie che dongle all ultimo firmware senza problemi. Il volume delle cuffie era inferiore a quello che mi aspettavo ma grazie all equalizzatore puoi personalizzare l audio come vuoi tu e ora suonano magnifiche alzando il volume che arriva a livelli veramente alti senza mai distorcere i suoni e mantenendo chiarezza su tutte le frequenze, qualità assoluta. UNICO aspetto leggermente negativo, quando collegate a una console con il dongle insieme a un dispositivo bluetooth, il dongle avra sempre priorità e per poter ascoltare di nuovo il bluetooth bisogna fisicamente disconnettere il dongle dalla console. Quando il dongle è collegato al PC invece si ha l audio in simultanea che arriva sia dal dongle che dal BT e si puo variare il mix audio con l apposita rotellina sulla cuffia. Su Xbox molte volte appena collegate le cuffie il monitoraggio del microfono viene messo a 0 di default e quindi non viene registrato nessun suono dal microfono, per risolvere basta premere 1 volta la rotella del mix audio sulla cuffia e variare il valore del monitoraggio audio. Detto questo le cuffie suonano epiche e hanno un botto di tecnologia all interno. Fatta la mano con l equalizzatore si adattano a ogni tipo ascolto da musica a fps. C è chi dice che sono pesantissime (pesano 500g), ma appena le mettete dimenticate di averle, super comode. I Pad sono in pelle ultra comoda ma creano un po di calore sulle orecchie dopo un po’ ma niente di estremo, in vendita ci sono ottimi cuscini in pelle ma traspiranti cosi che la qualità audio non ne risente. Ah, la batteria dura almeno 60 ore e si ricarica in 2, vedete voi. Ho conosciuto Audeze con queste cuffie e sono sicuro che in futuro farò la stessa scelta a occhi chiusi.