![]() ![]() The suspension headband does a great job of spreading the load, but it still can feel like a small burden after wearing the headset all day. It’s a hair over 500 grams (17.84 ounces). It's somewhat heavy and thick, which may not make it the most suitable headset for traveling.Īs great as it is to see Audeze improve the design of its top-of-the-line gaming headset, the company made it a lot heavier. If you’re walking around, you can turn on mic monitoring to effectively get a simple ambient sound pass-through mode as well. Though it doesn’t offer active noise cancellation like the SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless or Turtle Beach Stealth Pro, its noise isolation is decent, so you can drown out external sounds wherever you go. Though the headset is a little large and heavy for taking out and about, it can still do the job. In my testing with LDAC, I found the audio quality remained exceptional. The headset supports LC3, LC3plus, AAC, LDAC, and Bluetooth LE Audio. It supports high-fidelity codecs so you can continue to make the most out of the headset over every connection. Then there’s Bluetooth 5.3 to top it off. But the headset goes even further, supporting a USB-C audio connection and 3.5mm analog signal. Its USB-C transmitter works with almost every platform you might want to use it on, so you’re not locked to just a few platforms (though there may be issues using the Xbox version with PlayStation, and the PlayStation version doesn’t support Xbox at all). When it does comes time to charge, the Audeze Maxwell will let you keep on listening thanks to its boatload of connections. Even at the end of a day of heavy use, it was still reporting 91% charge. Through countless hours of play, listening to music while I worked, and watching shows, I’ve only charged the headset once. Where its predecessor couldn’t even scratch 20 hours of runtime, the Maxwell is rated for over 80 hours on a single charge, and doesn’t disappoint. It also has a suspension headband that more evenly distributes pressure across the top of my head whereas the Penrose had a basic headband that left my head irked at the end of play sessions.īest of all, the Audeze Maxwell came with a huge upgrade to battery life. Where the Penrose had a lot of plastic, the Maxwell is built with steel and aluminum in the yolks and headband. But the Maxwell comes with some big improvements. High-quality, wireless gaming audio pumped through planar magnetic drivers. The Audeze Penrose had a similar promise to the Maxwell. ![]() It fixes the Audeze Penrose’s shortcomings The soundstage is on the tight side, so some of the magic you get from a planar magnetic, open-back headset like the reasonably priced Monoprice Monolith M570 can still make a difference, but this is a small nag when the Audeze Maxwell delivers so much otherwise. That sound is coming through over a wireless connection, too, as the 2.4GHz wireless receiver can transmit an audio signal with a 96kHz sample rate and depth of 24 bits, enough for most FLAC files. Subtleties aren’t lost even as the headset pumps out roaring guitar solos, rich synth, and drum hits that stand out beautifully. From the busiest tracks from Of Montreal to the absolute ride of Funkadelic’s Maggot Brain, this headset delivers crisp, impactful sound that doesn’t miss a lick. I wouldn’t say that the quality speaker drivers in something like the SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless will leave you wanting, but the Audeze Maxwell headset delivers exceptional sound. With 90mm planar magnetic drivers pumping out lively, precise sound across a broad frequency range, these cans aren’t trying to compete with the speakers in best gaming headsets-they’re trying to destroy them. The Audeze Maxwell’s headlining feature is its audio quality. High quality sound with many different connectivity features. While the Xbox model has limited support for PlayStation consoles, the PlayStation model doesn’t support Xbox over 2.4GHz wireless at all. The actual differences between the two are minor, with the Audeze logo changed to correspond with the platform’s color.īoth models have extensive platform support, but only the PlayStation model supports Tempest 3D audio and the Xbox model comes with a Dolby Atmos license. The Audeze Maxwell comes in two variants, one for PlayStation consoles and one for Xbox.
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