Roccat Kave 5.1 Headset Review
Packaging and First Look
Published: 25th May 2010 | Source: Roccat | Price: £72.72 |
Roccat Kave First Look
Despite this not being an official part of the SDMS range the box apes the other Roccat boxes by being very sleek and modern. A large transparent panel allows you to get a good look at the Kave prior to purchase, or stare longingly at during the journey home. The back contains everything you expect to see, in all the languages you're likely to speak. As it just repeats the technical specifications we've given on page one let's move on.
The side of the box gives us a bullet point list of the major elements of the Kave 5.1 headset. This is particularly useful because the design is so good and so smooth that not all of them are easy to spot "at a glance".
Taking it out the box we get our first look at the Kave. We will be looking closer at it in a moment, so for now it's just nice to see a very good job done by Roccat of tucking everything out the way. This gives us a very clean view of the headset and 'Tip N Control' remote.
No we haven't accidentally thrown the headphones away and are going to review the packaging. Often once the hardware is removed the main job of the packaging, i.e keeping it all facing the front of the box, is over. However here Roccat have not only given us a well formed holder but then reinforced that with foam pads to ensure the Kave headset arrives at your desk in the best shape humanely possible. It's the little extra touches that really separate the good from the mind-blowingly great.
It's always difficult to take a picture of a headset as a whole without it looking like a hell of spaghetti. Here we're helped by a Velcro cable tie, and Roccat logo'd splitter near the jacks that ensure we don't have miles of cables. Rather here we have a single cable that splits in a quality fashion as late as it possible can. There definitely is plenty of cable here, enough that you wont struggle with routing unless your main tower is next door.
Finally before we take a good up close look, the documentation. This follows the standard Roccat mantra of having one exceptionally clear user manual that covers everything you could possibly want to know, and one mock report file that makes for interesting, if not slightly surreal, reading.
Most Recent Comments
Had my pair for about two months now and can't say I've ever been so happy with a headset. These things are much higher quality than my Sennheiser PC-350 headset. The sound quality is miles apart, even more amazing considering they costed about 70% of the PC-350 cost at the time.
The only draw back for me is that I find the ear cups to feel a little warm on the ear on extended use (7+ hour sessions)... but those sessions aren't a frequent thing for me.
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Originally Posted by name='AMDFTW'
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Three things I need to know though. (1) How do they compare sound wise to the Logitech G35? (2) How comfortable would they be for glasses wearers (I have to wear glasses) for a few hours? I have Technics headset (Brilliant sound BTW) and after an hour of wearing them my ears hurt because the earpads press against my ears. (3) where can I order this headset from Ireland?
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Originally Posted by name='steve30x'
I need a good surround headset because I just moved house and my computer is in my bedroom (the only place where I have room for it) which is right next to my neighbours bedroom. Being a considerate neighbour I dont want to be a nuisance so this headset looks like what I am looking for.
Three things I need to know though. (1) How do they compare sound wise to the Logitech G35? |
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Originally Posted by name='steve30x'
(2) How comfortable would they be for glasses wearers (I have to wear glasses) for a few hours? I have Technics headset (Brilliant sound BTW) and after an hour of wearing them my ears hurt because the earpads press against my ears.
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I really couldn't feel any pressure on the glasses from the headset, it sits quite lightly over the ears so you don't really get much of a problem with extra pressure.
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Originally Posted by name='steve30x'
(3) where can I order this headset from Ireland?
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So all my comfort tests are done "with glasses on".
Apparently its a problem with windows 7... any1 had same sort of troubles?
Nvm, system reinstall solved everything.
Well I just tested it on my wife's netbook with XP on it and everything seems to work well. I tried to reinstall my X-fi drivers, searched solutions on line and I cannot find anything. I can mute/unmute microphone, the equalizer works, just volume control and mute button doesn't. Any help highly appreciated.
you will get there soon
Thanks.
Although, I have a pair of Kaves myself and they are indeed lovely.
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