Change is hard, I understand. But sometimes when you make a tough change, you’ll wonder how you ever lived your life the way you did before. I mean, people used to say the internet will never take off! Now nearly every single human being has the internet in their pocket and can access the wealth of the world’s knowledge at their fingertips. Change can be good!
And just like you can’t be close-minded to change, you can’t always be close-backed to headsets. Here’s just a few reasons why an open-backed headset belongs in your gaming setup:
Accurate Soundstage
“What’s a soundstage?” you may be asking. Imagine you’re listening to sounds coming from a stage… (stay with me here) as if you were watching a live band from the front row. Because of how the instruments produce sounds from different locations on the physical stage, you can easily pick out where each instrument is in space. And with that, you get the transcendent sense of sound enveloping you from all sides in a warm, melodic hug.
When you listen to the same music on closed-backed earcups, they reproduce this effect differently because of the physical differences of the hardware. Open-backed earcups allow air to freely flow and minimize internal acoustic reflections, producing an audio experience that gives a superior sense of being able to locate where the sound is coming from – great for music, especially great for losing yourself in a game where you need to accurately pinpoint where the enemy is (just like the live band).
Natural Audio
By minimizing internal audio reflection, you can hear all the great stuff happening in the higher registers that deserves to be heard with less coloration, as naturally as the content creator intended. This especially great for genres like orchestral music, acoustic performances, jazz, rock, metal, and even ambient music. With an open-back design, mids are clear, highs are crisp, and bass is still present and accurate. Audio enthusiasts call this “natural audio” and it’s easy to see why it’s such a sought-after quality.
Comfort
There are a lot of closed-back headsets with comfy earcups out there, but like we just talked about, their design allows air pressure to build up between your ears. And what’s a great insulator of heat? Air. It’s a no-brainer, then, that a vented, open-backed earcup design will drop the temperature on your ears significantly.
It’s also a no-brainer that open-back earcups naturally made of less material, meaning they’re lighter weight than their closed-back counterparts. This means with open-back headsets, your gaming session doesn’t have to end when your ears get too hot and sweaty or your headband feels too heavy, letting you play for longer.
So after hearing all that, I’m sure you’re at least little bit more open to open-backed headsets than you were before. But what’s the right one to start with? Well you’re going to want one that maximizes the comfort and audio quality benefits that open-back headsets provide. Enter the Atlas™ Air Headset.
The Air provides the world’s first floating earcup design, as well as an adjustable floating headband that instantly conforms to your head and a lightest-in-class weight of just 301g – and that’s with the removable, broadcast quality microphone installed. Pair that with high-precision drivers that maximize audio performance and produce phenomenal audio quality with an extensive 20Hz – 40kHz frequency range, and you’ll have an endlessly wearable headset that will make you forget you’re not right there in the game.
