Am I using my headsets wrong or is my head just too big?

Submitted by TheIrishLaw t3_115x0vh in headphones

Over the past 3 years now I've had many of my headsets break and often times they break in the exact same way, cracking at the earcup joint. It happens so often now that I don't know if in just getting unlucky, if I'm somehow handling then wrong although I handle them with great care or if my head is just plain and simply too big. The headsets I've been through since 2020 are Turtlebeach stealth 700 gen 2, 2 Arctic 9x wireless Steel series (the second was from the warranty) and the razor kraken X. My current headset i bought today when my razor gave out was the turtlebeach 700 gen 2 max and I don't want the same thing to happen to this one of I can help it, I primarily use them for console gaming so my options are fairly limited I think.

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Hobo332 t1_j93ssz6 wrote

Well I can't comment on the other headsets but the steelseries are prone to breaking around the cups/hinges, so no suprise there. Mostly comes down to using cheap plastic and poor designs

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unuselessness t1_j93uean wrote

Change the way you are grabbing them to put them on and take them off.

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unuselessness t1_j93wi0m wrote

Replying to TheIrishLaw (#1,864,593)

Depends on how you are doing it I suppose. If you take it off and put it on with both hands on the cups then while you pull it wider than your head and ears you are max stressing the joint/hinges where they connect to the cups. If you grab the headband above the cups and hangers then you won’t stress the joint/hinges at all, you’d be stressing the headband itself instead. That’s how I took my SteelSeries arctic pro wireless for years because of the know breaking issuez

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FiftyPaneristi t1_j93xe4h wrote

Turtle beach and hyper x is known to be built like 💩.

The arctis line is also notorious for breaking prematurely. The arctis nova supposedly fix the issue.

Next time buy high quality, such as Epos, Sennheiser, and beyerdynamics. Stop touching those garbage headsets from hyper x, turtle beach, steelseries, Corsair, astro, Logitech, astro, etc.

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InFortunaWeLust t1_j949fyk wrote

its a good time to stop buying bad quality 'gaming' headsets and get into actual real headphones. better quality and sound

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Low_Attitude_5293 t1_j94un77 wrote

I was on the same boat as you. Had steelseries for few years (Siberia, 5h, 7h, hyperx could 1 and 2), all steelseries headsets broke after warranty, hyper x started flaking and the pads (ear and headband) were yuck beyond repair.

After that I invested into dt770 and that's the best choice I have done. I have them for 6 years now, only changed the pads few times, and they were opened numerous times since I was modding then, everything works as day 1.

They are built like tanks, and sound better then previous headsets. Now I have internal damping inside of them, mass loading mod, modded headband with leather strap, and 3d printed adapters for 110 mm pads (stock are 100 mm), and I absolutely love then, from sound to comfort.

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IdleHands_kc t1_j957kxo wrote

Yeah bro, you just named the 3 shittiest brands. It's not your head. It's the quality of the headsets. Time for real headphones.

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TheIrishLaw OP t1_j95exyk wrote

Replying to Low_Attitude_5293 (#1,867,318)

I would love a pair like dt770 but sadly like I said I'm mainly using these headsets for console gaming right now so without a microphone attached to them I can't talk to anyone online, I will be picking up a pair of them however whenever I get my PC built

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TheIrishLaw OP t1_j95fa9e wrote

Replying to FiftyPaneristi (#1,864,769)

I learned the hard way about steel series being bad, I've always found turtlebeach to be a fairly decent kind of headset and I've always thought that Epos, beyerdynamics and what not were only for straight headphones without mics so I'll try investing into some of those whenever I get the chance, do you have any recommendations for a good, durable headset for console gaming?

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csch1992 t1_j95mvmx wrote

have you tought about trying iem's? after i got my fiios all of these problems disaperd :D

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