RIG - 500 PRO HS Precisely Tuned Stereo Gaming Headset for PS4|PS5 - Black

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• Rated 5 out of 5 stars

  Hey really if you follow me you would get the best

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  Hi fruend I know you read this reviews cz this one right here is what you really want to to find in a 80 dollars headset for gaming. Sound clear so clear and beautiful comfortable I never buy items for brands that's no good. I buy for details specs this one right I spent time in store lisent all headsets and this one I order it right away. I found is the most loud I can enjoy. This all time. The connection is only for PS4 and laptops not for. iPhones or phones. As I know. Maybe a adapter is required. You tube elpistolero5. Real 1 the best for now. I buy others check my review and Razer and G433 are weak on the side this one. Plantronics

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  Posted 6 years ago by Wilo

• Rated 5 out of 5 stars

  Perfect for work

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  • Owned for 1 week

  Comfortable and light. Easy to use. Was quite surprised at how comfortable and light the headgear was.

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  Posted 2 years ago by SNOWHT

• Rated 5 out of 5 stars

  Great budget headset that delivers

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  The Rig 500 pro hs is an awesome headset for gamers looking to get in the action with out breaking your bank. While there are so many different competitive headsets to choose from it can sometimes get confusing on deciding which headset might be right for you. Hopefully this review will help in deciding if this is going to be the right fit for you and what to expect from the Rig 500 series. First lets talk about what you can expect to receive out of the box. Your going to get the headset itself, mic(which is flexible), and a 3.5mm audio cable which houses the volume control near the end of the cable close to the jack. The ear cups have three different height adjustments available to you as you can see in one of the pictures i have uploaded. The earcups sit a roller type push release. Simply apply pressure on the earcup to pull out and place at your desired height. The headphones themselves don't pull out for adjustment as you would see on a typical style audio headset but rather they adjust almost automatically in way by a flexible top band. The mic plugs directly in to the headset on the left side and operates the mic on/off switch by simply pulling down the mic. This is actually a pretty cool feature that my other headsets don't offer. Simply pull the mic down when you wanna talk and it will enable voice chat. When your down talking slide the mic back up and out of the way and voice chat is automatically disabled. There are no buttons to push. Now me personally i prefer to game with wireless headsets just due to the fact that the wires are usually bulky and long and tend to get in the way and become annoying very fast. This headset utilizes a very thin and small 3.5mm audio cable which actually hooks up on the back side of the headphones and then runs down to whatever audio device you wish to hook up. This headset can be used with anything that has a 3.5mm port which includes ps4, xbox, pc, cellphones and tablets to name a few. The headphones appear to be a closed back design which means it will greatly help in reducing outside noise pollution however do not expect it to isolate all outside noise. Now the frame design is very thin plastic which had me taken back a little bit. At first sight they look very cheap and easily broken however after 3 straight hours of gaming i did not have to re-adjust the headset due to a comfort issue so i'll chalk that up to the thin plastic design. To be quite honest these are the most comfortable gaming headset i think i own when compared to the other two i own. Since the comfort level is so good i'll be forgiving on the cheap looking design. Now there is one thing i noticed out of the box. The instructions that came with this show that the cushion earcups are held together by what looks like magnets and can be easily removed by pulling them apart. That is not the case on this set up, i tried pulling them apart and they would not give. I stopped trying because it felt like the fabric was going to rip. I want to bring this up so that you are aware that there are different models in the 500 series. This is the Pro HS which is there lower end and not the Esport series. Just make sure you are aware of that. Enough about that lets dive in and talk about functionality and just how well the mic and audio drivers perform. First off mic function is great. Voice chat is crystal clear and people never once struggled to hear what i was saying. Now i tested the audio part on two devices. My ps4 pro and my galaxy s9 plus. While playing on the ps4 pro i was pleasantly surprised by just how quick and easy set was. All you need to do is simply plug it in to your controller directly below the touch pad and boom your ready to go. And this is where that volume control feature was kinda of nice. Since the volume control sits near the end of the cable near the jack that means volume control is going to be very close to your hands. The turn dial volume control is going to actually sit right between the two joysticks making it to where you have very minimal arm flow from your had to the volume control. This means you make a quick adjustment with out having to worry about losing too much hand placement on your controller while gaming. Now while this set up did well for the ps4 it annoyed me quickly while listening to music on my s9 plus. When i play MMOs and have to grind i usually like to listen to music off my phone to help pass the time. I decided rather than using two different headsets i'll just swap this over to my phone and see how well it does. It hooks up fine and audio is great but the problem i had is now that volume control became a nuisance. Every time i would skip a track and lay it back down on my lap or put it in my pocket the roll dial volume control would be moved and the volume would either go too low or too high. At the end of the night i got so annoyed by this that i ended up grabbing my regular audio headset to stream my music and put the RIG 500 aside. The set up works GREAT for console gaming but not so great for streaming music off a phone or tablet. Now lets talk audio quality after all part of gaming is being able to be submersed in a game by both visual and audio. I was expecting the quality to be terrible due to the fact that this is a budget friendly designed but i was actually very surprised by how good it sounds. The sound quality you can expect to get is going to be leaning more towards clarity and high res and less towards deep bass. So take for example call of duty. As i was playing i could hear the footsteps hitting the ground so crisp and clean that i felt i could almost hear the leaves tearing. As the bullets flew by or were released from my high power rifle the sound quality was clear and not muffled by any type of distortion or feedback. I felt that i could almost hear metal rubbing on metal as the bullet left the barrel, that's how clear the audio is. Now the bass is definitely lacking and that's the part where you start to see the price difference come in to play. Whenever an explosion took place and i was close enough in the game to receive damage from it i would clinch in anticipation expecting to hear that big bass rumble in my speakers. That big bass drop sadly never came. Don't get me wrong there is some bass but you can definitely hear the lack of significant bass quality as the audio drivers struggle to push it out. Now im a big fan of deep rich bass and in most situations this would upset me. In this situation however i wasn't too upset due to the fact the audio quality was so clean that i almost felt like i had expensive High Def headphones on. Here's my final verdict. Is this the best sounding or best design on a headset? No. But is it the worst? No. I gave this headset 5 stars simply because i feel it performs better than i was expecting for its price point. You have to always consider that you get what you pay for and at this price point i was actually comparing this headset to another one i had bought 6 months prior that cost about the same. My other headset is cheaply made, the mic is not adjustable and sound quality is just horrible. This headset has a very comfortable design with audio quality that i would expect to see once you starting getting to the upper end price ranges. The use of a low profile audio cable and volume control that is easy to access during gaming adds even more to the value. The on/off mic automated feature is nice and takes away from the distraction of having to find buttons while gaming. Another thing about this set up that i may of forgotten to mention is its versatility with other devices. I like to play Final Fantasy xiv on the ps4 which is a MMO and since im on the ps4 im forced to use discord on my cellphone. I now have an audio device that works perfectly with Discord on my phone for gaming. All in all this is a great product at this price point and quite frankly im surprised it doesn't cost more. Pick it up if your on a budget and you should be pretty happy with it. pros: -Good volume control placement for PS4 and Xbox gaming - Great high res audio -Very comfortable -Mic turns on automatically depending on its position Cons: - Lack of deep bass - Flimsy frame design - Volume placement can be annoying for tablet or phone use

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  Posted 7 years ago by Crasher