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Category: Video Games
List Price: $119.99
Buy New: $94.99
You Save: $25.00 (21%)
New (26) Used (4) from $72.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  36 reviews
Sales Rank: 1616
Platform: Xbox 360
Media: Accessory
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: tbs-2065
Model: TBS-2065
UPC: 731855020652
EAN: 0731855020652
ASIN: B000VHY3GO
Release Date: August 20, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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 The best headphones to date for Xbox Live game play. Period. December 26, 2007
35 out of 36 found this review helpful
I play combat games for the most part: Call of Duty 4, Halo 3 ... but others, too -- like Rock Band, which as you might guess can also get LOUD.
My wife hates the noise. That means I need headphones for game play. And I've tried/tested pretty much all of them, including the earlier versions of Turtle Beach (wired and wireless, like the X2) as well as many other brands, like the Tritton True 5.1 Digital Audio Headset with AX360 Audio Xtreme 360.
Until the Turtle Beach Ear Force X3 Wireless Headphones (which I got for Christmas), my two favorite were:
* the Turtle Beach EarForce X2 (wireless)
* The Trittons (wired)
Both of the above had pros and cons.
The pros of the X2s was that they were wireless and had decent Xbox Live Chat capabilities. The pros of the Trittons was the fantastic sound quality. There are 4 dials for sound alone! If you don't play games that require Xbox Live, these are fabulous headphone. They use an optical sound cable. Fab sound quality.
Cons of both the X2 and the Trittons: depending on the game, is that it can be hard to clearly hear your teammates during the heat of battle -- even in the lobby if there is default game music playing (in Call of Duty 4, there is no user option to turn this music off).
You also can't hear yourself talk -- both of your ears are covered, naturally, so when you talk, you tend to get LOUD because you can't hear yourself. Your own voice is muffled.
Turtle Beach Ear Force X3 Wireless Headphones for Xbox 360 solved this problem. Now you can "hear" yourself talk. Much like when you are on the phone, you can hear a little bit of your voice through the earpiece part of the phone.
The wireless base station is also MUCH smaller than the X2's base station. Which was huge mainly because it was designed to needlessly hold the headphones when not in use.
Pros of the X3s:
* Set up takes about 3 minutes. Plug and play.
* The earphones are comfy -- even on my big, adult head
* Wireless
* Can "hear" yourself talk through the headphones
* "Bass boost" option mode (a switch near the volume)
* TWO volume dials: one for overall gameplay, another for Xbox Live chat. For example, I love Call of Duty 4, but you are unable to turn off the lobby's default music in between games. With the other headphones, I had trouble hearing folks. The X3s enable you to dial down the music altogether -- so you just hear the chat in the lobby.
* Mute button
* Surround sound is good ... you can tell where the bad guys are coming from
CONS:
Sound quality is good -- but not amazing. But remember that these are wireless. The wired headphones have a bit of an advantage in overall sound quality.
Tip: With the Turtle Beach X3s, unlike ALL of the other headphones, under the "voice" personal options 360 menu, select the default "Play Voice through Headset" and not "both headset and speakers."
You are going to love these headphones.
 headphone / mic November 5, 2007
3 out of 13 found this review helpful
The product is awesom,w ,,,, BUT >>>> it can only be used for the XBOX system. I was looking for a PC compatible product. The ad did not mention the limitation to Xbox only,
Good deal BUT>>> October 25, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
First thing first, Amazon has the best price for this than anywhere else. The headphones are good. They produce good sound and the mic is good. The headset has the function to control your volume as well as in game volume. Here is where it kind of goes down hill. I was recently playing HALO3 with it. I noticed that EVERY time there was a grenade toss, vehicle explsion, and even the 50 cal on the back of the warthog was fired the sound would just cut off. It seems as though the headset just cancels it out completely which of course takes you out of the game. I tried turning off the bass boost, and yet the samething happened again. It's like a dropped call, you can get it back but its so annoying. I tried it with other games and the best thing to do is lower the game volume which kinda sucks cause that was the point of the headset to HEAR the game without diturbing others.
The red & white plugs right to the back of your 360. I have home theater with digital sound so it left the R&W slots open just for this device. The sensors are on the headset but the signal box must plug into the wall. If your like me you already have a jungle of cords behind the tv and not enough room for another plug for power. Why it couldn't use the usb for power, I don't know.
The device loses cool points for being so blocky. My fiance constantly laughs when she sees me with it and can't understand why she is marrying a geek.
Also, you can listen to movies without disturbing neighbors. You don't even have to turn on the controller. It uses 2 AAA which doesn't suck power from the controller.
Good price, good quality, Hear ambience you may not have noticed before.
Lose cool points, Too many explosions the headset just cancels out the noise.
 Quality control needed October 22, 2007
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
After using the X3 for 2 days, the microphone quit working which negates their usefulness while playing online. The background hum that is mentioned is always present (ambient noise) but its not too noticeable while playing.
Follow-up note. Turtle Beach's support site says about the connecting cable to the controller :
"In fact this issue appears in 'epidemic'
numbers, overshadowing any other issue with our Headphones. No kidding here!We are sorry but this is not a manufacturing defect as some have suggested."
I'm sorry but there is a design or manufacturing defect with this cable. Mine was not abused and stored when not in use but yet it promptly failed.
Awesome October 19, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Since I cannot change the star grade a provided originally, I am writing this new review and providing a full 5/5. I had a snaffu with batteries, thinking this puppy was consuming batteries at an abnormal rate. After realizing that the batteries I originally used were not Alkaine and the rechargeable batteries were not fully charged, well how the heck was I expecting over 10 hours of use?
It's a great headset that has helped me listen to sounds I did not know existen in my games (since I always played with the volume down).
As a wishlist for the next headset, if an X4 is in design and development - lithium batteries and 5.1 audio.
Turtle Beach has fantastic customer service. They are quick to answer and on the money when providing guidance.
Peace
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