Everglide s-500 Headphone Review 190
Lincoln 'PrOpHeT' Grixti writes "The Everglide s-500 Headphone is the ultimate tool for gamers that pass long hours using their headset for their gaming needs. It has been designed for gamers, by gamers, with the aid of leading world-wide professionals such as Sander "Voo" Kaasjager and other CPL World Tour Winners. The headset is available for sale with a price tag of $99.99 from Everglide Store. Some might say it's quite expensive for a headset, but when compared to other professional gaming headsets, the price is quite cheap." update Sorry folks, apparently the linked website barfed.
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Slow weekend?
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For anyone else having a hard time getting to the website:
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Everglide s-500 Headphone Review
The Everglide s-500 Headphone is the ultimate tool for gamers that pass long hours using their headset for their gaming needs.
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The Everglide s-500 Headphone is the ultimate tool for gamers that pass long hours using their headset for their gaming needs. It has be
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I know enough Spanish to get by and for someone to comprehend me but that doesn't mean I review products in Spanish.
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According to the FAQ, tags are only available to subscribers and some users [slashdot.org]. I expect that the "some users" are users who joined before some cut-off date (I could be wrong, what do I know) and that your account is simply too new for the tags.
Likewise, there's a similar cut-off point for moderation, so if you've never moderated, your account may simply be too new.
Re:Nice ad (Score:2)
If it's got anything to do with account creation date, then it's not as simple as "too new and you don't get it"...
Re:Nice ad (Score:2)
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I've been wondering what that tagging thing is and searched half-assedly (looking for a Taco announcement or something). Thanks for the link.
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The rule is... (Score:3, Funny)
All ads posted on Slashdot must be pornographic.
Re:Nice ad (Score:2)
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"Directly from first impressions (as you can undoubtedly, see for yourselves), the Everglide s-500 seems to have been built with gaming purpose in mind from the very beginning. In fact, they are a product of new technological advances, such as the worlds first bio-cellulose membrane used to supply instantaneous audio response in the speaker driver. This membrane is said to be by the company, faster than most conventional s
Re:Nice ad (Score:2)
Even for $20, you can have a good headphones. I recommend the Sennheiser HD201s... they're $20 and they sound excellent. I use them when I'm on the train or whatever since they sound decent and block out noise. At home, I use the Sennheiser HD600s (which are like $300, but you get what you pay for) and Beyerdynamic DT880s, which are also wonderful.
I don't
Re:Nice ad (Score:2)
You might have to go to an audio store to find them, but they are classic industry standards for musicians and other people that have to work with audio.
http://www.audioreview.com/cat/headphones-home-au
Competition? hardly. (Score:4, Informative)
The Everglide doesn't even come with the highend military grade noise reduction stuff the Jawbone sports.
Not even in the same class.
Re:Competition? hardly. (Score:2)
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Re:Competition? hardly. (Score:2, Insightful)
~T
Re:Competition? hardly. (Score:2)
Who cares about Vo0? (Score:3, Interesting)
I'd be more impressed if it was someone like Brian "Destrukt" Flanders, or even the overhyped fatal1ty would know more than vo0.
I don't care how well you do in one game, if you can't adapt to other games then your opinion as a "pro gamer" doesn't extend beyond your field. Someone whos able to rock at multiple games obviously knows a lot more about being good than just a few tricks to one game, and thus I'd give a shit more about their input on headphones/hardware.
Re:Who cares about Vo0? (Score:2)
For that matter, if you think button mashing will actually doing anything close to productive, you're probably confusing this for an mmorpg. FPS games are all about timing, strategy, reflexes, accuracy, and interpretation of info. You need to be able to distinguish the sound of someone taking a single mis-step and making noise for a 10th of a second and be able to know exactly what to do with it. A good pai
Gaming Headset?! (Score:5, Insightful)
What makes this a "gaming" headset? The bundled microphone? The carrying bag? The price? The fact that it comes in a box?
Re:Gaming Headset? Get a Sennheiser! (Score:2)
I've got two pairs of the HD-457 model, because they fit/feel great and sound wonderful, and a pair of HD-497 because it is slightly better sounding (but hurts after an hour).
Buy American - Grado Labs (Score:4, Informative)
Sennheiser makes some great headphones, but I'd take a USA-made Grado set over Sennheiser any day.
http://www.gradolabs.com
Even the basic SR-80 phones (around $80.00) are excellent. And you're supporting a nice family-owned & run business, with a 50 year history.
Re:Buy American - Grado Labs (Score:3, Interesting)
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Headphone comfort & safety (Score:2)
I'd have to agree that they can be uncomfortable for some people. I have no problem with the earpieces, but the headband could do with some padding (which I added). In terms of sonics, nothing can touch them at twice the price, at least for the lower-end phones like the SR-80. In the higer-end models like the SR-225, they have solid competition from AKG.
If you own a set of these, heed the manufacturer's warnings about excessive volume levels. These phones are so low in distortion that they give the user a
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This is a common problem. I don't know why Grado doesn't anchor the wire on both sides where it enters the "can". Since it is only anchored on the inside, it is possible to push the wire up into the can, and this does happen each time you move around. The result is that the solder joint breaks. I have two pairs of SR60 where I cut out the cover on the left can with a dremel in order t
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One thing I found useful is to hotglue the wires where they enter the cup so they cannot move. This prevents the wires from breaking.
Re:Gaming Headset?! (Score:2)
Re:Gaming Headset?! (Score:2)
Why would I want subwoofers in a set of headphones when tons of well-designed models of headphones have already had ridiculously good low bass response (virtually flat resopnse down to 10 Hz) without subwoofers for decades? Adding a subwoofer to headphones is like adding a turbocharger to a big block V-8 or a protein supplement to a great big juicy steak.
But, of c
Re:Gaming Headset?! (Score:2)
That is because the actual drivers for the individual channels are much smaller as otherwise they would not fit in the cups. So in order to achieve a good bass response, a sub-woofer was needed, very much on the same principle as the "satelite" speaker systems.
But, of course someone wi
Re:Gaming Headset?! (Score:2)
i wonder how hard it would be to make headphones that responded to head movement amd fed the info back to a controller....
Re:Gaming Headset?! (Score:2)
Indeed. And with the Sennheiser ones, you will get a set of headphones that is designed to last. Ever been frustrated after buying a new set of headphones or earphones and finding that the cord has gone flaky on you and you have to buy a whole new set? With the Sennheiser HD280Pro headphones I have, the cord is designed to b
Re:Gaming Headset?! (Score:2)
Apparently, it's sensibility. How much sensibility does your precious Sennheiser have? Huh? Yeah. I thought so!
The sensibility of this microphone is remarkable. It provides excellent sound quality during voice chats (tested on several chatting programmes such as Skype, Ventrilo, and MSN Messenger), and allows the user to speak freely without having to worry about where to pl
Re:Gaming Headset?! (Score:2)
Many "gamers" seem more about appearance than skills/capabilities... The computer-age equivalent of the "ricers"
[neon lights, clear windows, colorful cases, etc, etc]
And I'm getting tired of people using the word "optimum" without knowing what it means... "Optimum" in what sense? Lease-squares? Absolute Value? Fronobieus norm? There are also many instances where somthing that is "optimum" in one way just plain sucks because the criteria for comparision is poor.
Voo Who? (Score:3, Funny)
Self-destruct button? (Score:4, Insightful)
Give me a break!
Re:Self-destruct button? (Score:2)
And, of cour
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No kidding...I personally would prefer to see "Designed for gamers, by audio headphone design/engineering specialists". But that's just me.
Wrong section (Score:2, Insightful)
This qualifies for "Laugh, its funny."
It's like one went out to write the worst possible advertisement/review of a crappy product, then submitted it to Slashdot just to have people sit and critize it.
This seriously has gotta be a joke.
When buying a slashvertisement... (Score:2)
Give the editors a break... (Score:2)
speaker delay (Score:5, Funny)
I see. I knew there was something wrong when my $20 headphones would actually store up the sound for like 10 milliseconds before playing any of it. Thank goodness this company built speaker drivers "faster than most conventional speaker drivers found in traditional headphones, making the Everglide s-500 optimized for millisecond feedback."
Now I can listen to games without my speaker drivers storing up all the sound before spitting it out.
And it's a good thing they optimized these for games because games produce sound, like, way cooler than music can. And it's directional, whereas music just comes in stereo and binaural forms, which aren't directional at all. And they can pinpoint sound to a pixel, which is cool because I have a lot of pixels.
And it's good they made these comfortable, because people who listen to music only spend like a few hours listening, whereas a gamer like myself will typically game for 48+ hours, so I need that extra level of comfort.
And it's cool they reproduce the full 20 Hz - 20 kHz sounds range; just looking at sub-$500, I have yet to find a pair of regular "music" headphones that can do 20 Hz. (Of course they spec their cans at +/-1dB or +/-3dB; maybe these people spec to +/-60dB, in which they might be right.)
Fortunately, if anyone buys these, he or she must be so enamored with the purchase that he/she will think that he/she has the best set of headphones (for gaming) in the world. And ignorant happiness will ensue. So buyer and seller will have achieved their goals.
Re:speaker delay (Score:3, Insightful)
That said, these are pure analog headphones. From the looks of it, highly overpriced ones. Philips HN100 active noise cancelling headphones (good for killing fan noise) run around $60-70 retail, and you can find them for $15-20 INCLUDING S&H on eBay.
These headphones also don't have a built-in boom mic, just a shitty lapel mic that is completely seperate
Re:speaker delay (Score:2)
Yeah, my headset exactly fits that description, the Steel Sound 5H. It was also full of idiotic marketing about being "designed for gamers" (personally I use my mic for voice recognition and VoIP, but even if I played online games it still wouldn't matter). But it fit my needs so I bought it.
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Maybe Taco wanted to highlight the tagging system? (Score:2)
Nice stuff.
I've seen better ads^H^H^Hreviews (Score:2)
And what the heck is with the name? Everglide? My K/Y headphones are so much better.
-matthew
If you want (Score:2)
He should have proofread once more (Score:5, Funny)
I cannot begin to not misunderstand the failure of grasping the un-concept of this sentence.
Re:He should have proofread once more (Score:2)
Similar to a Studio Kit, this headset does not come with a Microphone and comes as an optional separate item with the headphones, having a clip-on that is used so to attach the microphone to the clothing.
How bad was the article? (Score:2)
ba-dum-bump
Pinpoint Precision? (Score:5, Informative)
What does this mean? Accurate to the pixel? These are just headphones, not a 20-speaker surround system. This whole review is written this way.
"In fact, making the speaker driver very sensible to minimal audio response resulted in this Headphone to lack in Bass audio quality."
Not only did the author use "sensible" instead of "sensitive", they also make an erroneous connection between the speaker sensitivity and bass response. In fact, it appears that the author doesn't understand speaker sensitivity. The speakers are supposed to be super-lightweight, so they make sounds faster than regular speakers, so no one can sneak up on you in a game. The result of this is apparently the lack of Bass (why the caps?). Both of those statements make absolutely no sense.
This review is nothing but a VERY poorly written ad. If you're going to post ads on Salshdot, Taco, at least read the damn things first.
Re:Pinpoint Precision? (Score:2)
Not for Gamers. (Score:3, Interesting)
There is but one thing I'd do better for gaming: Anti-Sweat. Closed is good but when your ears get warm after hours of UT 2003 you want some air on your ears.
My perfect gaming headphone would have the sound quality of the Sony CD line, the cord of the Sony CD470, would be as sturdy as the Beyerdynamic Monitor Headphone line (high end studio headphones, start at aprox. 300$) and some sort of nifty air circulation system to keep the ears from going sweaty whilst keeping external noise out. And it would have a line of spare parts for things that break on them and go fatigue. Like the cushions and the lining.
All of this doesn't seem to be part of these bizarly priced headphones. Ergo: Crap or maybe some ok closed headphones. But gaming headphones "by gamers for gamers"?
That's Rubbish. Save your money.
Nominal Dependence? What the heck? (Score:2)
Ear Rings (Score:2)
Re:Ear Rings (Score:3, Informative)
Best bet is just to get normal, corded high quality IEMs. I
Re:Ear Rings (Score:2)
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Also I think if you are talking high quality phones, which these'd have to be given the pirces that wou
Sooo not what I want (Score:2)
Eyeglasses wearers (Score:2, Interesting)
They should build some phones that have a feature to reduce the pressure against the ear at the point where eyeglasses pass behind it.
Re:Eyeglasses wearers (Score:3, Informative)
Umm, so what do these get me over normal phones? (Score:3, Informative)
So I'm looking at these, and I'm not seeing what they give you that something from a real, respected headphone makers doesn't. They aren't special 6-driver surround phones like Zalman offers (which give supprisingly good surround sound for headphones, though abysmal music reporduction).
All their fluff about the fast membrane is just that: fluff. Sony has used biocellulose membranes in their headphones for some time and they aprobably aren't the only ones. Doesn't really matter, it works well, so do other materials. The "millisecond response time" is bullshit. All headphones respond as soon as the voltage starts changing, and because of the short distance to your ear, propagation through the air isn't an issue. The sound is instantanious. The only thing a lighter, better controlled driver will buy you is better highs. Of course that also requires an amp that can keep control over that driver, which generally takes a current output you don't get from PC soundcards.
To me it sounds like the reviewer has just been using the $5 Radioshack special headphones and this is the first higher end headphone he's ever heard. I remember the experience, I used to always have little America West headphones my dad brought back, that was all I got to use. Then, I finally saved up money and bought like a $50 pair of headphones from Radioshack and I was blown away by how good they sounded. I had no basis for comparison so I was amazed at the improvement. Now, having heard a wide variety of good headphones with good amps, I'm very unimpressed.
Looks like these are some reasonable quality, maybe $40 headphones in an expensive $100 box. I'm sure they aren't horrible but really, do yourself a favour and get some real phones. If you like ear buds I just can't say enough good things about Ultimate Ears. The 3s are great, the 5s are stellar, and I can only hope someday I'll be rich enough to try their 10s. You will be much happier with the money spent. They may not have hired gamers to help them design their phones, but they did get musicians, audigolgists, audio engineers, and other people that, you know, might actually know what the fuck they are talking about.
This is not a democracy (Score:2)
Ok, I admit that it would help if the ad wasn't written by a 12 year old and the product wasn't an overpriced piece of junk made by a mousepad company.
Hi (Score:2)
Thanks!
-Mr. Dumas
It's an Old Man Murray review! (Score:2)
Or at least, that would be your first guess.
Of course, as it was Old Man Murray, what actually happened was that if you clicked on a flag, you would see the review again in English, but after it had been translated from E
Re:Here's the article (Score:5, Funny)
Damn! They were actually able to achieve a contrast between black and silver colours? That's pretty much what I look for in headphones -- high contrast -- and clearly this set is really on the cutting edge.
Re:Here's the article (Score:2, Informative)
HAHAHAHA
20hz - 20khz? (Score:2)
'accurate to the pixel'?
Re:20hz - 20khz? (Score:2)
"World's First Bio-Cellulose Membrane." ??? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Headphones? (Score:2, Insightful)
Yeah, because everybody knows computer gaming is about milking every last frame out of your box, and that it has nothing to do with the selection and playability of games.
You don't get a huge selection of RTS games on a console simply because it's so cumbersome to play them without a mouse and keyboard. You don't get Warcraft 3, Dragonshard, or Empire at War. You don't get 15 different flavors of Command & Conquer. Ma
Re:Headphones? (Score:2)
If not, then the Revolution controller will be awesome for first person shooters and probably RTS games. Heck, those genres work pretty well on the DS
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They're not a tether. (Score:2)
You obviously didn't RTFA.
If you call that being tethered to your desk, then nothing but a wireless set of headphones is going to make you happy.
The longest corded headphones I have are about 6ft long, which is long enough for just about anything I need 'em for (other than sitting in bed and plugging them into the back of my mid-tower.
Re:Worthless without surround -- Medusa's are bett (Score:2, Informative)
No doubt (Score:2)
Re:Useless? (Score:2)
Audio Technica ATH-M30 (Score:2)