Everglide S-500 Gaming Headphones

Performance:

All testing for this article was done on a system with an Abit AW8-MAX (i955X + ICH7R) motherboard, Intel Pentium D processor, and a Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS sound card. On the software side of things, Fedora Core 5 was used with the 2.6.16-1.2080_FC5 (SMP x86_64) kernel and ALSA v1.0.11rc2. With that said, using the Everglide S-500 headphones and microphone we had carried out a variety of tasks from listening to music using Rhythmbox, watching movies using mplayer, and gaming with Doom 3 and Enemy Territory.

When listening to the FLAC audio with Rhythmbox, the audio quality was fantastic and the headphones had done a viable job at reproducing the high, middle, and low frequencies. In gaming and the other environments where the S-500 was tested, the audio quality was certainly top-notch. In gaming the audio details and enhanced audio positioning certainly proved to be a success with ensuring life-like audio. Over a year ago, we had first checked out the Icemat Siberia headphones, and had proved to be an excellent choice for gamers and computer users, and the Everglide S-500 is certainly capable of competing with the high-end choice. The audio isolation and comfort also proved to be acceptable when wearing them for extended periods of time. The length of the cable also proved to be of suitable length. When it came to the S-500 microphone, in our sound recordings the microphone proved to be satisfactory for normal human voices.

Conclusion:

Well, how well can a mouse surface manufacturer make headphones for gaming? Simply put, Everglide did a darn good job with their S-500 Professional Gaming Headphones. The S-500 price of $99.99 USD may seem expensive for some users, but is there truly a price to put for meeting the needs of audiophiles? Wearing these headphones for hours, the audio reproduced was phenomenal and was certainly among some of the better headphones we have sampled in the past. During all of this, there were no problems with the audio cable being too short, headphones being uncomfortable to wear, or anything of that nature. The build quality should be acceptable even if routinely toting around the Everglide S-500 to and from LAN parties. The S-500 microphone was also suitable in our tests. When it comes to downfalls with the Everglide S-500, there is not really anything in the way of notable problems. One item we would have been interested in, however, would be a volume controller to easily adjust the headphone volume without having to control that through the software.