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phoenix65420
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Jun 22, 2016
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I own these, and have for quite some time. They were my G930 replacement. My G930 I had replaced for defects 3 times roughly 1 year apart. These have so far been fantastic with no issues.
I did have the same question GrindheadJim had with the chatmix and livemix. With a little research I found the way I needed to hook them up for my purposes. Many on-board audio systems now have some optical capability, and between that and USB its fairly straightforward. If however, you don't have that, or if you would prefer less cables and connections, you can go full USB and choose to lose some of the capability.
My use case is not only gaming, but 8 hours of work a day, skype, voice calls, the entire gamut. The SteelSeries are still solid and the quality seems great.
Something I have not seen mentioned before is, there were many discussions regarding battery life. I have not had my batteries start to run out early, so this may have been addressed. I have read they have sent replacements to people that needed support but that is online info, so (like this) should be taken with a grain of salt.
Are they perfect? No, they are not. Fidelity could be better, mic could be better, breathability on the ears could be better, it could have noise cancelling. But these are not the price of studio monitors, Shure mics, or Lightspeed headsets with active noise cancelling, and they are not typically asked to do that kind of work.
Right tool for the right job, for me, wireless freedom with caveats at an acceptable price for the performance. Just my 2 cents.
Jun 22, 2016
GrindheadJim
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Jun 22, 2016
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phoenix65420^Excellent review.
Jun 22, 2016
phoenix65420
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Jun 22, 2016
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GrindheadJimThank you. GrindheadJim! I understand your frustration with the Chat and Livemix. I will say a companies responsiveness and technical support will make or break them for me. I have yet to use Steelseries Customer service. I hope it lives up to the name. Though reading your experience is definitely not getting my hopes up.
One further thing that may have resolved even some misunderstandings here. The mixing appears to be a fairly simple leveling that occurs in the tranceiver (the box you plug into your PC). It can put some data at some volume from one channel and other data at another volume through another channel. It does not "talk" to your PC and therefore not your applications.
Different inputs can be mixed. All the audio coming down one input cannot.
Jun 22, 2016
GrindheadJim
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Jun 22, 2016
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phoenix65420"Different inputs can be mixed."
Exactly the opposite of what I found through their support, as well as several Reddit threads. *shrugs*
Jun 22, 2016
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