Uncomfortable, not configurable, Microphone feedback

Uncomfortable, not configurable, Microphone feedback

Mad Catz FREQ4D Headset, Black (Personal Computers)

Customer Review

Tested under Windows 8.1 Pro 64bit.

The unit does not like it. Unfortunately, I missed a mission for the rear windows and now have to live with an expensive bad buy.

Cons:

1. The headset is not made for my head. I therefore agree with other reviews and say that it expresses. Specifically: It pushes behind his ears, because the adjustment mechanism of Muschen and the rest form a favored behind the ears, rather than completely envelop the ears and around to rest. After a few hours with the unit, I had a sore spot behind the ears. Otherwise, it sits well, it does not wobble and the strap on the head does not press. If one makes the bracket very loose, hears the press behind the ears, but then it sits no longer stable enough on the head.

2. There are no drivers for the headset. You can not configure a equalizer and three selectable presets are on the headset - to put it mildly - a joke. A headset> 100 must sound good especially here could FREQ points if it had a global EQ.

3. How the microphone could come by the quality inspection, is beyond me. Some other reviews say that you can hear a buzzing at the other end with an active Vibrobass. The truth is that, probably due to lack of drivers, no filtering takes place. So much so that callers hear yourself speak. Since the microphone is processed directly in the earpiece, so everything is what anyone says again returned to the mic. I (and apparently the majority of manufacturers of VoIP Software) am of the opinion that such filtering in the driver and not in the Sofware belongs. Since there is no driver, I probably unlucky.

Highlight in this regard: The dog barked my conversation partner, I heard the barking, my conversation participant has the barking then heard from his headset and the dog has heard it barking from the headset and has zurückgebellt themselves. Noise Noise Canceling doubleing instead?

4. The headset while muting the microphone no sign of. I never know if I'm going to hear now or not. With my old analog headset I can fix on the position of the sliding controller, beep Logitech headsets and have an LED on the microphone.

Pro:

1. The sound may be good. One of the EQ profiles on the headset is virtually "EQ Off" so you can not, without driver, relatively elegant own EQ profile in music applications and adjust like. In games you have then just bad luck.

2. The replaceable cables (which in practice virtually no USB headset has), let me operate the part of the cell phone and other game devices like the PS Vita. Since the sound is quite good and Android (unlike Windows) has a halfway reasonable audio management, I can call about funnily without feedback and dogs soliloquies. On the whole buttons on the headset then you have but also how to do without ...

3. ... ViviTouch. I doubted the purchase that is good about something and was amazed. You have to remember that it is this is a headset for video gamers and exactly for this audience this vibration function is intended. It is comparable to the Force Feedback / Vibration / Rumble in gamepads. Instead of hearing only the bass (which sounds all right on a 3.5mm instead of USB without ViviTouch), you feel the bass on the head. I had first feared that I could be it bad or I get a headache, but no trace. Spectacular it is not yet. I could have done without it, and it wanted a decent bass control.

Conclusion:

I can not recommend this as FREQ 4D. One should only buy the thing, unless absolutely jack / USB hybrid needs to be and you can not do without the ViviTouch. I'm going to raise my other pads (to counteract the push effect behind the ears) and use it on the go. I sit a lot on the train and then I went armed with cell phone, laptop or PS Vita. That reminds me that I still would like to test the Linux laptop to USB mode. If I can there in the power of Grayskull and a decent sound system to iron out the quirks (Mic feedback and lack of EQ), the part gets maybe even a star back.

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