Quality headphones make it much easier for you to immerse yourself in a game. Provided you don?t start shouting at your opponent at 3AM when everyone is asleep, you can also blast your audio with no fear of people complaining. It?s a pretty great experience? right until your phone rings. Chances are, in the unlikely event that you even noticed the phone ringing, you are far too occupied to pick the phone up and answer it. Turtle Beach has come up with a solution to this problem with the Mobile+Game XP400 headphones.
Like most of the headphones made by Turtle Beach, the XP400s are big. The headphones have nearly an inch of padding all the way around and the top band has a cushion half as thick. The headphones are not entirely noise isolating, but putting them on mutes the outside world pretty well, even before the audio starts. The buttons across the headphones are big, making it easy for you to run your hand across the panel and make sure you are hitting the right button. The microphone can be removed entirely if it is not being used, and rotated or flexed out of the way whenever needed.
The XP400 headphones are easy to setup, and come with everything you would need for several configurations. During my testing, I had the headphones connected to an Xbox 360, a PS3, and a PC using the same optical cable. The receiver box sits on the entertainment center, tethered to your console with the audio cable and power. Once you have powered on the headphones you need only pair them to the receiver once and they are good to go. The headphones and receiver have individual controls for audio presets and surround sound. Once you find the setting that fits you best, you are ready to connect your phone.
The XP400 pairs to your mobile phone just like any other Bluetooth headset. Once you have paired it, the phone stays connected as long as you are in range. When a call comes in the headphones will automatically lower the sound coming from the console, and answering the phone is as simple as a button push on the side of the headphones.
The call quality from the XP400s is great, and the same microphone you use to communicate in-game is used during the phone call. Turtle Beach did a fine job integrating the call experience into the headphones, and being paired to a device didn?t have any significant additional drain on the battery-powered headphones.
The audio quality is very good on the XP400 headphones. You could easily use these to enjoy a surround sound movie, as well as casually listening to music. Control of the surround sound settings makes it easy to adjust to whatever environment suits you, and some basic audio presets can help enhance any music you may be listening to. The headphones are not bass heavy, but instead rely on a clearly defined middle range to produce most of its sounds. Neither high pitched instrumentals nor deep bassy tones ever took over.
While the headphones aren?t noise cancelling, they do a terrific job of making sure whatever you are listening to stayed inside the headphones. Even during huge explosions or during a particularly loud song, the headphones did a much better job than most at minimizing audio leak. Only with the volume completely maxed out on the headphones was someone else able to clearly hear what I was doing when the headphones were securely on my head. Especially for late night gaming, this is a fantastic feature to have.
I found that the battery on the XP400 headphones would last through about 25 hours of continuous use before needing to be recharged. The headphones take about two hours to fully charge from dead, and Turtle Beach has made sure that the headphones can still be used while charging. Having a phone paired to the headphones the entire time shaves about an hour off of the total time you can use the headphones, and paired to just the phone the headphones lasted for days without needing power.
Turtle Beach has made a great pair of headphones that are able to suit a wide variety of users. While the packaging says that PC use is not supported, anything with an optical out will deliver audio to the headphones. The microphone will not work on the PC, but as a pair of headphones they work great. For $189, there are very few alternatives that offer as many features as these headphones at the same quality.
Source: http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/review-turtle-beach-mobilegame-xp400-gaming-headphones-20121012/
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