I appreciate how Sony has engineered the sound to be immersive but not too wide. That's exactly what the Pulse 3D headset does. When sound behaves like it does in real life, coming at you from multiple directions instead of just in stereo, the game world makes more sense, and you can accept the soundscape as normal and get on with playing. I wish I could avoid invoking the cliché of saying these headphones make the game more "immersive” but they do. Standing in the market plaza of Nefarious City, you can easily pinpoint the robots moving around the stalls, the ships flying overhead, the PA system spewing propaganda to one side and the bassy thuds from Club Nefarious to the other. It certainly made a difference with games like Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart. The 3D audio feature, the one the headset's partly named after, isn't available on all PS5 games but when it does, it works very well. Sony PlayStation Pulse 3D Wireless Headset review: Features Unlike the audio, which I think is genuinely good, the microphones are not much more than serviceable. However, the sound is kind of muffled, as if I was speaking through a window or door. After recording myself speaking through the Pulse 3D on a voice note app, I too would agree I sounded perfectly audible, with little to no popping. It's not something I noticed when gaming, but you may find it annoying if you're listening to something else.Īccording to my colleagues on a video call, the audio from the dual microphones sounded fine. The flipside is that the audio can sound a little distant. But that's typical of gaming-focused headsets, and for listening to music, the Sony headset's more balanced profile makes it the victor.Īs you'd hope from 3D audio headphones, there was a well-designed surround effect, even though the Pulse 3D isn't primarily designed for music or for use with a PC. Listening to Little Simz' Introvert, there was incredible detail in the percussion, though Simz's reflective verses weren't left out, nor was the complex mix of orchestra and beats sitting between the two.Ĭomparing this to the Audeze Penrose, a much more expensive headset, it was clear that the Pulse 3D isn't quite as powerful in general, particularly when it comes to the low end of the mix. To put aside the special gaming-related audio features it offers with the PS5, I put the Pulse 3D on a level playing field at first by plugging it into my PC. A couple of seconds later, and after two beeps in your ears, you know you're good to go. Just make sure the dongle is plugged into a USB-A port on your PS5 or other device, then slide the power button. In keeping with the unfussy style of the headset, it's simple to set up and get going. Sony PlayStation Pulse 3D Wireless Headset review: Performance But if you’re using the headset with a PS5, then simply pressing the PS button on the DualSense controller will serve up an interface that’ll show how depleted the Pulse 3D’s battery is that’s much easier than fiddling with the earcup-mounted controls. It's definitely far too complicated a process for the limited amount of information you eventually get. You can technically do this without wearing the headset as the LED flashes in different patterns to also show you a rough percentage.
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The result? You get a series of beeps that represent how many quarters of the headset's battery is full. In fact when I first tried out this feature I thought my headset was faulty, but nope, it's just incredibly hard to do by touch alone. It took me a long time to learn to do this consistently, since the limited gaps between the identical-feeling buttons make it hard to figure out where your fingers are.
And the reason it's probably hidden is that to do it Sony expects you to press two of the cramped rocker switches at once. This is a feature you may not even know the Pulse 3D offers because it's hidden in the manual. This gets even worse if you want to check the headset's battery level.
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