Inglorious Headset

Things have changed since my last review. Some people say I got to eager, with it being my first review and all, that I wrote “fuck” a lot, and “who wants some piece of shit for the iPhone bought on fucking eBay, which is probably made by a two-year-old chinese anyway?”¹ Well, haters gonna hate forever, so I just might as well make a new review!!!

For some time, when gaming on my Xbox, I’ve been using this generic wired headset connected to my tv. This proved to be hell when it’s late at night (usually 1/2 am) and I also wanted to use the Xbox Live Chat.

Why I don’t use two headsets at once, you say? Do I look like Zaphod Fucking Beeblebrox?²

So I did some googling to see if there were any headsets worth the money, and boy did I find what I was looking for: Logitech F540!

Fappable

The first time I saw this – I got a boner. You probably think I’m kidding, but I’m not. I got a juicy techno-boner of epic proportions.

I read reviews about it beforehand, I watched a few videos about it³, and I compared prices on all the Norwegian online shops I knew of. I still ended up buying it at the only computer shop nearby where I live (you know, supporting local shops is needed sometimes). In price, it ended up at 1349 NOK (about 245$⁴), and I went out of the store as a happy camper!

Before use I charged it for a full 4 hours (as I’d read it’d been recommended), and ran down the stairs to my xbox to hook this shit up. I needed to try several ways of connecting the bastard base station, as I immediately didn’t get any sound through to the headphones, but I got it working eventually⁵. To any of those hoping I’d fail miserably already here, fuck you, because I made it happen!!!

A few things I immediately liked about it

• Design. Yes, the design. There is something so sleek about this fappable piece of eyecandy hardware that it reeks “motherfucking badass”⁶.
• Niche. The headset is obviously made for gaming, with the possibility to be used in other circumstances as well. Most of the times, I see headsets made for the exact opposite reasons: it’s marketed for tv/music use, but also works for gaming. Usually this doesn’t give headsets that feeling of thoroughness, things that make you realize that “Hey, this works great with gaming as well!”
• Functionality. What’s great about this headset is that you can hear both the game audio and the online chat through your xbox/PS3. Yes, it works on BOTH CONSOLES!!!

  

• Do the talk (or don’t). See the mic? When you flip it up, it automatically mutes the xbox live chat. Flip it down again: unmute. Up and down again, ad infinitum. I moaned somewhat to my self when I found this out⁷.
• Connectivity. This headset gives you the possibility to connect up to three separate audiosources through the base station (2 x RCA & 1 x AUX). Switching between the sources is done with the “Input” button on the headset (se all buttons here).
• Comfy! It’s impressibly gentle to the (w)ear! Even after several hours of listening to all the butt-hurt rage-quitting on public servers after my complete ownage in Bad Company 2⁸, my ears aren’t too hot and sweat. My initial thoughts is that the pads are the reason for this. It’s kinda hard to explain, but the plastic isn’t too hard nor too soft, thus not creating that sensation of a warm vacuum that usually arise after some time of use with other headsets.
• Juice. The rechargeable battery is replaceable (OH MOTHER OF GOD, FUCK YEAH!!!).

The only not-so-good-thing I noticed

• The microphone volume is a little too loud. In some or other way, my voice get’s really loud to the others I’m chatting with. For instance, in my excitement over a kill in Bad Company 2, I shrieked somewhat. This sounded, as portrayed to me later on, as if Bobcat Goldthwait⁹ screeched his nails on a blackboard while trying to sing “Freebird” (See what I did thar?). In other words, “artistic”. Though this isn’t something I usually can adjust, even with the original Xbox headset, it still is a bitch that I can’t adjust it on the Logitech headset.

Conclusion

All in all, would I recommend it?

Fuck yeah!

And if you haven’t found out before this point in the review, either you need to start reading shit more thoroughly or I need to be more specific in my writing. And I can’t think of how I could get more explicit than writing “fuck” as every other word in the review. But as I said, the last time I did this I got complaints.

If you have the money for this headset, it’s totally worth it. Why haven’t you bought it already?

Footnotes

1. Just kidding. He’s probably three years old. ↩
2. Congrats, you found a Hitchhiker’s reference. ↩
3. Yes, videos about a god damn headset, how technolusty of me. ↩
4. Compared to the price on logitech.com (149$) it’s fucking expensive, I know. Still, I had some money to spend, a local shop to support and n00bs to frag. ↩
5. Later on I found out this was because I needed to restart the xbox when changing the RCA-input to the TV. But hey, enough of my n00bness… ↩
6. Badass like this guy. ↩
7. Kinda like this [SFW].↩
8. Yeah, I’m kinda lying at this point. Why the hell are you reading this anyways, geez…↩
9. He has this face and this voice. You figure it the fuck out.↩