Cheap Turtle Beach Call of Duty: MW3 Ear Force Charlie: Limited Edition

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Headset looks and feels great. These are basically the Ear Force Z6A pc headphones with mw3 theme. I just wanted to make sure any future buyers that plan on using for xbox360 understand that you have to go to turtlebeach.com and buy their xbox cable kit for 20 + shipping in addition to the cost of the headphones. I was really wanting to use these today and being that amazon does not sell the cables or the kit, I have to wait for turtle beach to process and ship which could be 7 more days. Will add more to this review once I get to actually use them.

Edit: Cable kit through turtle beach is on back order. Going to return.

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Bought these about a month ago. And it's an unfortunate contradiction. It's like the headphones were made by two different manufacturers.

I'll start with the ear cups. They're great. They feel solid, they sound good, they're very comfortable, and the surround sound, while not something amazing, is definitely as describedit does sound better than stereo. The feature that some people have had trouble with, how the microphone always plays back what it picks up, isn't much of an issue like I thought it would bethere's no delay, and turning the mic off disables it obviously. Another issue is legitimate: the length of cord between the amplifier and the headset leaves it hanging off your head uncomfortablythere's really no good place to put it when it's that short.

The ear cushions are superbWhen I first got them I had them on for at least 6 consecutive hours that day and there was no discomfort, no sweaty ears, no glasses digging into my head.

Let's get to the bad, and why this is two stars.

Everything above the earcups is trash. The articulations for the ear cups and where those attach to the headband are made of brittle, weak plasticin a place that is under spring loaded tension and continuous stress when the product is in use. Needless to say, they failed at those points. I figured it was a fluke, and epoxied it back together. It broke again, in a different placeI will be able to fix them but it's going to take some ingenuity as the spot they broke is extremely thinthe stem of the ball joint that allows them to lay flat against your shoulders when you take them off your head. And I expect once I fix that the same thing will happen on the other side.

Seriously turtle beach, wherever you get this plastic, stop doing business with them. Those parts NEED to be reinforced significantly.

These are the only real surround sound headphones available for under $100(aside from the identical turtle beach Z6a that this is a rebranding of), so you may want to get them. But when you order these make sure and also order some jb weld so you can fix them when the plastic comes apart.

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I purchased this headset "Used" through Amazon's Warehouse. What a great program. It's like a scratch and dent sale and with Prime, I was offered next day delivery for like $3!!! The product arrived in great shape exactly as described as a "repackage" which in my case was an original box with the seals broken and then taped with a circular Amazon Warehouse sticker to reseal the box. All the parts and the literature were included even the sticker!

As for the headset itself, this is my first Turtle Beach product and having come from a Creative Labs Sound Blaster Arena which at the two year mark decided to break off at the ear cup, I am not at all unhappy. The first thing that I noticed is the feel of the unit in your hands. It has a solid feel, like it's built well. The teaser graphics you will see that make the unit look like it is glowing green. This is not the case the knife "logo" from CODMW3 is in green but its real thin lined and almost not visible. On the other side is a small Turtle Beach graphic where the microphone attaches that is also in the same green and that's about it for the "green" *Bummer. The padding for the ears is unique. The material is not unlike the upholstery in my truck. Half rugged but smooth. I have a small, bald head and it is not irritating to me in the least. The shape of the cups is like a long oval. The top band is padded with just enough padding and embossed with "Call Of Duty" on the top. The microphone is also unique. It looks a bit like a fat bendy straw that's grey only with more rigidity than a straw even. It picks up my voice even with a box fan and a ceiling fan in the room. *Nice

The cord looks professional, and durable, having a mesh fabric feel not unlike old fashion wiring. The cord from the headset transitions into what resembles an "S-Video" male to female connection that transitions into the dongle. The dongle is branded with the Call Of Duty logo and looks somewhat "Military" but the plastic used doesn't feel like that at all unfortunately. It has a cheap, rattle when you shake it quality. The function of it is an on/off switch for the entire headset with total volume control, then rotary dials for each of the channels volume control. There is also a X-Box adapter port (don't know, don't care as I am a PC gamer) and a microphone mute slide button. The cord continues and ends to a set that has the 3 speaker cables (Green, Black, Orange) and 1 Mic Cable (pink). There is also a USB connection that is for power for the dongle/headset. Next we come to the interesting part. The unit ships with a splitter that allows you to plug both the headset AND your existing speakers into your sound card which in my case is a Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music paired with a Creative Labs P7800 7.1 Speaker set. The good part is, because you are using your existing sound card no drivers are required.

The bad part is... The splitter they give you will not pass 7.1 only 5.1 so you lose your surround speakers. Not a huge deal but worthy of a note as I pulled my hair out for about 3 hours uninstalling and reinstalling the Creative Labs drivers thinking something got corrupted or I had a plug in the wrong port of something.

In the box they also include a small get started guide containing install diagrams for different setups in 8 languages. They also include a single sheet marketing thing with a CODMW3 Logo on one side and a download code to go to a special Turtle Beach Download site. The link then redirects you to another link where you register. Registering is easy. Email address and password then next page for download code, birth date and what headset you purchased with a captcha code to submit. All of the software listed is for Delta or Bravo headsets and of no use to us. *Bummer? There is a section for a 40% off code for Turtle Beach clothing and some wallpaper and screensavers for phone, pc and tablet. And that's about it.

So to summarize this is a pretty rockin headset for the money. A couple of not so great things such as the lack of some cool software, a better, more rugged dongle and the issue with the splitter but all in all I would highly recommend this product.

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I've got the X41 and I thought the multi speaker/driver design of the Charlie would improve the sound quality. From the marketing point of view it sounded like it should each driver in your ear represents a proper speaker. But in reality it doesn't work well the smaller drivers are pretty much tweeters size drivers so you are asking these drivers to produce full blown sounds also ie. explosions etc. and they don't do a good job of it. I didn't appreciate the X41 until i got the Charlie the charlie sounded painful to the ears (i tried to 'burn' them in over a couple of days but they were still painful). This is audiophile talk the charlie sounded more brittle and had a harder sound compared to the so very mellow and comfortable X41.

THe Charlie also had very poor sound location capability you'll hear the same sounds but in the X41 you can tell the footsteps behind the fence is at your back. With the Charlie it's just footsteps in the side.

And the controller is the worst i've seen there are no detents to set you settings the wheels all free float. YOu can't save a favourite settins as the wheels will move when u touch them maybe if u like a particular settins u might tape the wheel down that's the only way.

I didn't enjoy the Charlie and sold it off for a song. My lesson is that these multi speakers/driver headset don't sound as good as one single high quality driver/speaker.

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Wore these headphones with consistent use for about 3 months. I brought them to a couple lans just threw them in a bag, dropped them lightly on the ground from time to time. havent done anything to them in a few weeks now and just now, like 5 minutes ago, the plastic on the right earcup 'harness', in the center of that upside down U shapped thing just broke from normal leverage when i pulled both earcups apart about to put them on.

I bought them read a couple of reviews saying the quality was poor, but said, "screw it ill try them out". Having tried them out let me tell you, there are better headphones on the market trust me. These are OK but unless you want these specifically for some reason, try something else, I know I got to go find another headset now, and these will be my first and last turtle beaches.

CONS -

COMFORTABLITY 2/5

First off, -BEWARE THESE ARE UNCOMFORTABLEI've worn soft biaural steelseries 5h's and could keep them on for 3-5 hours before my ears get irritated. These things I clocked it to around 1 to 2 hours of wearing them before my ears hurt.

In fact, maybe the reason they broke was because I had to keep taking them off because I couldn't stand to have them on for long periods. They are pretty heavy and they just smash together and sag on your ears, and the stiff headband doesn't help. Don't know why I was so surprised at how much I didn't like the feel of these.

STYLE 2/5

Second, they look pretty awful, if you look at someone wearing this they look pretty ugly, like its disproportional big size is border line awkward. One thing for sure you will get 0 style points with these on. Plus the mic looks bulky and weird.

SOUND 3/5

They are legitimate 5.1 headset which is pretty cool, but I would recommend not to buy these because that reason and let me tell you why. I don't even know what 5.1 does that my sound card + stereo doesnt. I tried changing the settings in mw3 to 5.1 but honestly stereo sounds pretty much the same.So pretty much 5.1 capable sounds cool but thats as far as I'd go with it.

PROS some things they did right. The cord is good quality, it's detachable at a really good length for wearing portably(god forbid you want to go in public with these on). I liked the big master volume knob on the inline control, but then you have 5 other different controls for like bass, front, rear stuff. Mic was crystal clear. Although when adjusting it it makes this creaking sound that everyone hears loud.

Bottom line, If all you want is good sound or like xbox support these arent bad, but with the poor quality alone I wouldn't recommend these to anyone because they WILL break and whats the point of good sound if theyre broken.