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Conclusion
Downsides of the headphones are few. They’re quite large, even in comparison to my Sony reference ‘phones. The Sony headphones are still rather light in their profile, though. The Evergreen headphones feel a bit heavy, and they don’t clamp as tightly on my head as other headphones I’ve used were able to do. Thus they always had a feeling as if they were sliding off my head, and on several occasions they actually did. Battery power also means that the headphones have limited life while operating in feedback mode. Unfortunately, it’s easy to forget that they’re powered on when you take them off, so be prepared to replace those batteries often. Even with their generous lifetimes of 20 hours in this set, they won’t make up for my own incompetence and forgetfulness! I think it might have been relatively easy to include a sensor that shuts off the headphones after detecting a certain time of inactivity, but that would’ve probably greatly reduced the possible battery life of the headphones.
One final niggle is that the treble response on the headphones seems a bit dulled. This means that they’re not the greatest all-purpose headphones. This is kind of a tradeoff, though, since most games that you’d use these headphones with aren’t going for symphonic perfection anyway…Bottom line is that if you do anything outside of the gaming realm (And probably action gaming mostly), keep your old headphones or speakers around, unless they’re old Labtecs. If they’re new Labtecs, then they’re probably okay. :-)
So the end result? These headphones were impressively good. They performed well and did everything they said they would, and more. There was hardly a problem with them at all, and they turned out to be really…um…neat! The retail price on them is a bit high, in my opinion, but Evergreen takes the initiative of directing their website visitors to businesses who sell them for less…quite an unusual business strategy, but one I wish many other vendors did!
They’re definitely something you can live without if you have to choose between these and a RAM upgrade, but they’re also not just a “fad” gizmo either. Give ‘em a shot…they’re worth it.
Rating: 8.5/10 SystemLogistics
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