For LAN gamers, however, the ambient sound is a major plus since it’s important to hear the cries of anguish from your friends across the table. The cloth-lined foam earpads are very soft and feature significantly less clamping than Corsair’s Vengeance 1500, but they do build up some heat in extended use and allow a bit more ambient sound to pass through at mid-low volume. Not that this matters if you only intend to use the headset with a PC or happen to write for a USB-focused website, but it does mean you won’t be able to jam out with the 780 and your MP3 player on an airplane.Īll in all these changes mean that Plantronics could shave a few bucks off the cost of materials, but it also means their new headset is one of the lightest and least intrusive ones I’ve used recently, ranking just below the Razer Megalodon’s level of comfort. Perhaps the boldest change made by Plantronics to their new headset is the elimination of the 3.5mm mini-jacks and optional Dolby dongle, making it so the headset can only ever connect via USB. Likewise, the front edge of the same earcup has a button for toggling Dolby surround that glows blue when activated. The unwieldy control pod has also been nixed, replaced by a convenient volume rocker and microphone switch on the back edge of the left earcup.
The cans still have limited mobility and are only able to pivot up and down by a few degrees when worn, but they now have the ability to swivel backwards to almost lay flat on a table or stuff away in a backpack.
All of the excess plastic that made up the headband’s arms is now gone, swapped out for a pair of tough wire-frame rails on which the earcups can glide for size adjustment. The new design is still plenty boxy to give Plantronics an iconic look, but you no longer need to consult a physician about neck braces before wearing one.
While the previous GameCom 777 had the heft and inflexible bulk of a ginormous Chevy Tahoe SUV, the flashy and slimmed down 780 might as well be an economy-class Scion xB by comparison. The GameCom 780 marks an incredible about-face from other Plantronics’ wired headsets. 6 GameCom 780 Compatibility (Windows 7 圆4).
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