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Gaming earbud guides
Latency modes, microphones, console and PC pairing: what matters when earbuds are used for games.
9 guides
Why over-ear earphones with a mic sound muffled on calls
On over-ear earphones with a mic the capsule sits behind your jaw, centimetres from a driver, and the isolation you paid for can make you speak more quietly.
Weight and contact area decide the comfiest headset
The comfiest gaming headset is whichever one puts its weight where your head tolerates it. The three load paths, how to test them, and what listings never state.
Over-ear gaming headphones are judged at hour three
Over-ear gaming headphones get a 20-minute audition and a four-hour session. Clamp, heat, glasses and boom-mic mounting decide the second; here is how to test.
Why a good PC headset sounds wrong until Windows is set up
Windows keeps two default audio devices and apps override both, so the same PC headset sounds different in Teams, Zoom and Discord. Here is the setup order.
Which gaming features are safe to lose under $40
Under $40 a gaming feature is traded, not added. Which gaming-marketed features are safe to lose, and why a cheap wired pair often beats a cheap wireless one.
What teammates really hear from game headphones with a mic
Teammates hear your voice-chat app, not the mic on your game headphones. How party chat, in-game voice, push-to-talk and chat balance decide how you sound.
Buy gaming earbuds for the platform you play on most
Phone, PC and console each break a different feature on gaming earbuds. Check what your platform accepts, then the mic, then the fit, before driver sizes.
On a PC the connection decides more than the driver
On a PC the connection, not the driver, sets what you get. Compare wired, 2.4 GHz dongle and Bluetooth setups, plus the Windows settings that break earbuds.
Low-latency gaming earbuds: thirty-nine of our pages make the claim, and they make it four different ways
Thirty-nine of our product pages mention latency. Five give a figure, two name a mode, one declines to give a number, and thirty-one simply assert it. Here is how to tell which kind of line you are reading.