ASUS Orion Gaming Headset

I'm on about hour 12 of wrestling with this boat anchor. That's a dual metaphor as they are really only good for tethering a sea fairing vessel to the ocean floor and because they weigh about as much as an anchor should. Seriously, if you are prone to headaches or strain from head phones, these will incapacitate you in minutes. I've worn my Sennheiser Game Ones for three years without issue but these suckers had me taking a break within the first hour of use. I guess they got me to go outside more, so that is one pro. Anyway, I muscled through the vicegrip like strain and incredible mass of these puppies and powered them up. The setup is fairly straightforward with this hungry peripheral only needing two usb inputs to feed it. Every paid reviewer for this headset made sure to film their video with high powered studio lighting and never once switched them off. And why would you? These are just headphones, I don't care about the RGB nonsense on the side you door, stop nitpicking. Well if you switched the lights off you would notice that the included amp/controller is useless because THERE ARE NO LIGHTS THAT ILLUMINATE ANY WORDS OR EVEN INDICATE WHERE THE CONTROL ROTATING SELECTOR IS FACING. GOOD THING I NEVER PLAY WITH THE LIGHTS OFF. Then the real problems begin. 2.0 stereo sound on this is fairly decent. There is an average amount of bass with some decent highs, nothing that will transport you to another realm, but certainly enough for the average gamer to be wowed. if however you flick over to 7.1 and your balloon begins to deflate rapidly. Any sound propagation to the front of the headset sounds full of force and accuracy, the moment something comes in from the sides or rear however, and it sounds like you are listening to a pair of eaebuds a flight attendant just sold you for $14.99. I have never been more disappointed with a purchase in my brief existence on this planet. The subwoofer driver doesn't even bother to fire for sounds emanating from the rear. All you get is this tinny, underpowered 20mm driver, desperately trying to keep pace with the front and center channel. I honestly thought I had done something wrong in setting them up so I spent 3 hours fumbling through the driver software, forums, and support pages trying to get the best settings, hell even just acceptable settings. After finding no solution I attempted to post to their support forum for specific assistance. After registering and providing nearly every personal detail about myself their forms required and jumping through the registration confirmation email hoop, I attempted to make my first post. Guess what I wasn't allowed to do. That's right, you cant post on the Asus forums until you privately message a moderator and they grant you talking privilege. Holy Orwellian Hell. As of this review, my request is still unread. So, abandoned, neigh, excommunicated by this 'Republic of Gamers' I tried a bit more or tinkering with the settings. For laughs, I decided to activate my microphone to have my friends weigh in on its quality. They sat in disbelief that the sound I was making was truly coming from these nearly $300 pair of headphones. You can find at least five reviews right now on YouTube where some spineless sellouts ACTUALLY SPEAK INTO THE MICROPHONE AND THEN SAY THE QUALITY IS PRETTY GREAT. I swear people of Amazon, you have to listen to this microphone. It sounds like your yelling into a tin can tied to a greased up string filtered through a dogs intestinal tract. Their are no less than 20 pages with over 15,000 views on Asus' forums complaining about this microphone and Asus had the audacity to imply it was an isolated quality control issue despite EVERY registered owner on that forum, who by the way purchased from different areas and received products from different warehouses, reporting the exact same issue. Asus couldn't figure out the problem because they don't manufacture the headphones. They had to contact the third party vendor who didn't have any answers either. A brave or desperate man on the forums drilled a hole in the end of the microphone housing and Asus damn near offered him a job for his genius. That's right folks, they didn't put enough holes for all that voice to get into them fancy microphone things. Are you kidding me? $300 for these things and you still need me to do some light millwork on them? Is that covered in my warranty? Oh looks like you mined out your microphone from the plastic tomb we encased it in, sorry, we can't accept this in this condition. This honestly seems like some sharkish attempt at snatching up some money from the ever gullible gaming community. I mean, hey, they buy unfinished games, maybe they will buy unfinished headphones too. What a kick in the pants...

Best headset I've ever owned. Sound is crystal clear and I have never been so imerssed in any game before. Playing games like Battlefield is better than ever before. Be sure to change your sound settings in game for headphones, surround though! Microphone is perfect. No distortion, everyone hears me clearly and no distortion of any kind. I did apply the newest firmware update as soon as I got the headset. So make sure you do that! It can be found on the asus website for the headset. Only nitpick is the stand. Of course it could be better being made out of plastic and all. And it will fall over from time to time when removing the headset. But it's a minor inconvenience really. Over all this is an astounding headset. Mine was made in May of 2018 so it comes with the revised microphone, keep that in mind that since 2017 the microphone has been reworked. So if you get an older version, contact asus and they will be more than happy to help sort it out.

I don’t always bother with reviews, but felt I had to speak to somebody like myself who may be considering this headset. What appealed to me so much about this headset was that it had 60mm drivers, for those who don’t know that is the size of the speaker itself. That is bigger than any other wireless headphones I could find. I also found on a site called that compares headset in this format A versus B where you enter the headphones, and it comes to the pluses and the minus of why a headset is better, they found this to be the best for its price. I checked all the other headsets, and I was looking for the best sound I wasn’t worried as much about the form factor or the build. I felt comfort was subjective because whatever headphones I looked at I found people who were complaining and saying they fit like a dream. Same goes for the sound. It was frustrating to rely on the reviews because they were so subjective. So, I was focusing on technical aspects. All the review sites seemed to have vague terms like good sounding nothing to differentiate one headset from the other. I have some terrible news these headphones sucked, in my opinion. I wish I could give you more technical details but couldn’t find any. So, what I’m about to say is my own opinion. The headset didn’t fit my head; I have a big head. The sound SUCKED, it was bass heavy, and all the frequencies seemed mushy and overpowered by the bass. I had to turn it up to turn the volume up to 100 to make it even a little bit loud. I play a lot of PUBG, and I’m listening for little sounds like footsteps. A lot of people think surround sound is a gimmick I don’t. It’s all in how it’s implemented, it’s true there isn’t true surround sound, all surround sound done by two speakers uses algorithms that trick the brain, but some work better than others. The surround sound on these headphones sucks mainly because the sound sucks, but even if the sound was good, I was unimpressed by the surround sound, my sound card does a better job at surround sound. Yes, I also have a great wired set of headphones. This is the second pair of wireless headphones I’ve bought so far. I should preface that I am coming from a high-end set of wired headphones, as far as good sound goes, I probably have unrealistic expectations for sound quality when it comes to these kinds of wireless headsets. Before these, I had the Logitech G533 which are A LOT better sounding than these but didn’t satisfy me because of my high expectations. I will be trying the SteelSeries Arctis 7 (2019 Edition) next and will update this review.

The sound is great out of this headset, the fallbacks though are they went cheap on the mic and on the rear pushers. The rear pusher is super weak, you have to decrease the volumes on all the other larger pushers by almost half to equal the rear at full. The side pusher which is the same size as the rear is more powerful. the rear is definitely tinny and cheap. Only does highs and barely mids, which is terrible for gaming. Can only really hear things clearly in a 180 degree arc in front of you. All things happening behind seem like they are far away when in reality its in the same room. Asus failed miserably on these headphones.

Son muy cómodos de llevar incluso en largas sesiones, a diferencia de otros qué llegan a causar dolor o incomodidad en las orejas o cabeza, con estos no tendrás ningún problema. Además, el cable que tienen es bastante largo y tiene muy buen recubrimiento de tela por lo que no tendrás problema sin importar que tan lejos tengas tu sistema. Debo resaltar que la salida de audio se divide en dos (Audio y micrófono) por lo que necesitarás un adaptador si tú dispositivo solo cuenta con una entrada.

De très bonne qualité

my current head set just broke loose wire in one ear peice so i thought i use these i bought in may as a spare went to use them can get no sound im gonna stick plain plug and play as my brother saw these and strongly use plug and play as he uses fro game these are too much hassle im annoyed amazon wont return them

Live it

リアル7.1chであるRazerのTiamatとその後継機のV2を二台使ってきてのこの商品の感想です。 なお、購入したのはROG Centurionの方です。 全体的に見てTiamatシリーズよりもこっちの方が優秀です。 つけた瞬間から明らかに音質が良いのがわかります。 サウンドに関しては間違いなくこの製品が綺麗です。 さすがに高額な7.1ヘッドセットだけあって、他のバーチャルサラウンドサラウンド製品はもちろん、RazerのTiamatシリーズと比較してもこっちの方が優れています。 サウンドドライバーのサイズが大きいからなのか、ドライバーと耳の位置が近いのか、明瞭でインパクトのある音声でクリアに聞こえます。 Tiamatシリーズはこの製品と比べると少し曇ったような音質で定位はしっかりしていましたが、正直音質に関してはあまり良くありませんでした。 また、ROGはsonic Studioによる音声調整が用途に合わせてしっかりできるので、旧Synapseの最低限しか設定できないRazer製品と比べても優れていると言えます。(LEDとかどうでもいいからそういうところをしっかりしてくれ...) もちろん定位に関しても抜群です。Tiamatは7.1に対応していないゲームは定位が微妙でしたが、ROGはしっかりとした出力でしっかり聞こえます。 マイク 正直あんまり使わないので音質については何とも言えません。 個別のコンデンサーマイクと比べるとやはり大幅に劣りますが、ヘッドセットについているマイクはどの製品も大したことないので気にする必要はないでしょう。 RazerもROGも特別悪いということはなく、普通に問題なく使えるレベルです。 初代Tiamatはマイクがイヤーの部分に収納するタイプで断線しやすかったですが、この製品は上から回転させて下ろすタイプなのでその心配はなさそうです。 ただV2と同様、柔らかく横向きに曲がるようになっている部分があります。V2は長く使っているとこの部分が割れてきますが、この製品も長期間使うと割れるかもしれません。 ちなみにマイクは取り外せないので交換や付け替えはできません。 本体回り 大きめのイヤーカップでしっかりと耳を覆います。 少し窮屈だったTiamatと違い広さに余裕がある一方、深さが少し小さいので私の場合耳の先がイヤー内部の底に当たります。長時間当たると少し痛いです。 その分ドライバーにも近くなるので、音はよりダイレクトに耳に届きます。 イヤーカップの硬さは[初代>>ROG>V2]でV2と比べると若干硬めです。私は眼鏡の上から使用しているのですが、長時間つけていても痛くなりませんでした。 装着したときの密閉率やフィット感に関してはV2の方が上です。初期のカップだとROGは周囲の音が少し聞こえます。その分蒸れにくそうではあります。 これに関しては予備のイヤーカップはメッシュのような作りなので付け心地や密閉率も変わるかもしれません。音は爆音でなければ外にもれない程度です。 重さに関しては比べてみても若干重いので、人によっては疲れが出るかもしれません。 側圧は強すぎず弱すぎずですがV2よりは強めです。痛くならずに安定感があり、丁度良いバランスです。 コードが若干堅いですがベースステーションから取り外しができるのは扱いやすく良いと思います。 接続はUSBです。この製品の最大の強みだと思います。 Tiamatは各ドライバごとに3.5mmジャックで接続するので、7.1出力可能なマザーボード及び専用のサウンドカード(これもまた種類が少なく高い)が必要でしたが、この製品はそんなものを用意する必要はなく、どのPCにもすぐに接続できます。 また、ベースステーションも多機能で見た目もカッコよく、アンプと同等の機能ですので、Tiamatみたいにお金がかかりません。AUXなどはないので外部から音声をミックスしたい場合はサウンドカードやミキサーが必要です。 PS5などに接続できるかはわかりませんが、コンシューマー機は5.1までしか出力できないと思うので、使うならAsteroのアンプ40TRにその辺のヘッドセットを使った方が良いと思います。 Razerもそうですが、音楽に関しては7.1ヘッドセットだと正直微妙です。ただ、これはまぁ仕方がないとは思います。Sonic Studioで調整できるので、きちんと調整すればある程度は良くはなると思います。 プリセットはいろいろありますが自分の聞きやすいように調整した方が良いでしょう。 全体的に見て、現状リアル7.1製品を購入するなら、この製品で良いと思います。 悪い点を挙げるなら、 プラスチック製の台座がついてきますが、別途用意してある人にとっては邪魔になります。 また、私の買った製品はヘッドバンドの部分が圧迫されていたのか、スポンジが潰れており開封後も戻る気配がありません。ここだけは残念でした。 あとはコードの出ている位置が丁度肩の真上に来るため、他製品と比べて邪魔に感じます。 コードが固いのも相まって、THETAはこの部分は断線の報告も多いようです。 剛性に関しては経過を見ないとわかりませんが、できるだけ曲げないよう丁寧に扱っていきたいと思います。 ROG THETAはこのCenturionと少し仕様が違いうので注意してください。 THETAはコードが両方のカップから出ていたり、重量も重かったりするのでこちらの方が良いかと思います。 USBは他の端子のノイズを受けやすいので、少し離したポートを使ったり、電源供給用のUSBと場所を空けるなどすると良いかと思います。