The leather headband has a limited range of adjustment due to it only having three levels, making it difficult to get a good fit during our human passes. After years of relentless innovation to build the world's best wireless gaming headset, Audeze presents Maxwell, designed from the ground up for serious gamers. The flat wavefront of the planar magnetic drivers is what leads to that more natural experience as opposed to the targeted, shaped wavefront dynamic drivers deliver direct at your ears. and Bluetooth), which is frustrating as it also does not allow for simultaneous listening on those two connections. Gaming headset apps can be a colossal pain — we’ve had to reinstall operating systems over particularly crappy ones — but at least Audeze’s app seems stable on Windows 10 and 11.

Enjoy lossless-quality high-resolution audio with the latest in wireless technology, compatible with LC3plus, LE Audio, and LDAC. Bearing in mind your top pick of the Corsair virtuoso was so uncomfortable I had headaches in under 30 mins of wearing. By boosting the center frequencies of the fundamental tone of feet hitting solid ground and the higher-pitched sounds of the whole footstep, this preset gives you the best chance to hear people sneaking up on you.Sarah Jacobsson Purewal is a senior editor at Tom's Hardware covering peripherals, software, and custom builds. While both headsets have a premium, well-built design, the Audeze come in console-specific variants to suit your needs. That's certainly not a deal-breaker for me, however, all I want the Maxwell to do is sound great over wireless and not run out of battery during my game time.

If you’re going to be using your headset with a PlayStation or Xbox, it’s best to get the correct version, as hardware licensing and software doesn’t always play nice from version to version. Maxwell is built on an all-new premium chassis including aluminum yokes and a spring steel headband for durability. The Maxwell sports newly designed 90mm planar magnetic drivers with a frequency range of 10 Hz - 50,000 Hz.This has changed the 'Non-BT Latency' and 'Analog/USB Audio Latency' values, and we have updated our review.

One of the really impressive things is the natural soundscape the drivers deliver even with a closed back operating principle. I love the tingle down my spine that accompanies listening to a tune you know really well, but suddenly hearing something new in it; I love getting immersed in an all-encompassing game world now brought to vivid life, all because of the hardware I'm using.Though the internal guts and features of the Audeze Maxwell are all high-performers, the construction has a few foibles. I could easily tell what direction distant gunfire came from without looking at the audio markers on the game’s compass. But after a period of use they would warm up to the point where they become warmer and deliver a richer sound.