![]() MORE: The Best PC Games to Play Right Now However, the volume knob attached to its jack feels like cheap plastic, and I always worried I'd snap it off just by turning it. The Xbox-specific audio cable works well enough. Both come with an Xbox-specific audio cable, which features a jack designed to prevent the cord from swiveling once it's attached to an Xbox One controller, but the jack's cylindrical shape makes it a bit of a hassle to use with a laptop. The Esports model comes with an extra set of ear cushions, as well as an extra audio cable designed for PCs. Where the two Rig 500 Pro headsets differ is mainly in their accessories. Black Canary's screeches soared over Swamp Thing's meaty vine attacks and Scarecrow's chains scraped against Flash's baritone voice, resulting in clear sound differentiation and distinct noises. The headset did a good job contrasting characters' voices, their attacks and the background music. The Esports' solid audio extended into fighting games, too. Therefore, sound was inherently less prone to traveling. Halo 5: Guardians also benefited from the headset's competent sound balance and isolation, though to a slightly lesser degree, since the maps I played on were filled with walls and hallways. MORE: The Best Headsets for Immersive Gaming For the headset's price, it would've been nice if it had sported a higher level of clarity and precision in this department, but that doesn't change the fact the Esports' approximations were quite good as-is. Additional sound isolation came in the form of the headset effectively communicating whether a threat was coming from the left or right, though the headset wasn't great at delineating intercardinal sound cues. ![]() ![]() This meant it wasn't hard to judge what the most immediate threat was, since only relevant sound effects took priority. During gameplay, the blaster rifle shots echoing from 50 yards away had a volume notably distinct from that of the shots being unloaded within 5 feet of my avatar. Take Star Wars Battlefront II (2017), for example. ![]()
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