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Audeze Penrose Wireless Gaming Headset -- REVIEW
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May 29, 2025
Ready for a new headset for your gaming adventures? The Audeze Penrose work via Bluetooth, with a wireless USB dongle (included), or even with an AUX cable, so you can plug it into your Xbox One, PlayStation, Mac, Windows, tablet, even connect with Android or iPhones. Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the Audeze Penrose and finds that it offers terrific sound, very good microphone input and lots of additional features. But... it has a few things you'll want to know about before you make a purchase decision too, as he details. Check it on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3u3Dr00
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wireless and bluetooth gamer headphones
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let's check these out
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dave taylor here and i'm checking out
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well hang on let me take these off
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this is the audis penrose wireless
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headset it's pretty sweet
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it is a gamer headset that
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simultaneously lets you connect
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via wireless usb and bluetooth
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so you can for example plug it in
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using the dongle to your playstation or
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your xbox
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and be listening to all the audio off of
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your gaming system
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and also have it connected to your
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android or iphone using
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bluetooth and be talking to someone
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while you're simultaneously gaming so
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pretty slick feature it is a lossless
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low latency headset
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and frequency response is 10 to 50 000
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hertz
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way better than my hearing with less
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than 0.1 total harmonic distortion
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and they are powered by a hundred
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millimeter planar magnetic drivers and
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this sounds
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really nice i'll get to that in a couple
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seconds powered by
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bluetooth 5.0 and that usb dongle gives
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you 2.4 gigahertz connectivity
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like i said you can do both
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simultaneously now one thing to know
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is that there's no balance between the
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two audio sources on the headphones
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themselves
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it does have as you can see in this
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close-up it has
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microphone volume it has headphones
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volume
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it has a 3.5 millimeter aux
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plug it has usb usbc you can use for
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charging or connectivity
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it has a detachable microphone it has
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what they call a multi-function button
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but it's really just a mode button
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and then on the end earpiece on the left
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you have the
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power button on the lower portion and
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the microphone mute
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feature on the top now i have to say
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i really find it a little inconvenient
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to have to do this
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here to be able to mute the mic i really
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like units where you just lift the mic
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up and that auto mutes it
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but that's just not this design that's
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how it goes so
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let's see you can change that sound
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balance between bluetooth and wireless
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because there is an audis
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app now it's only on android and on
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computers
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but if you need that and you're using an
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android phone
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here's a couple of screen captures
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here's the balance
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the eq and the rather sparse looking but
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still useful settings screen now of
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course you can also
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just use your source device to adjust
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volume
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and then do that for balance but it
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would be nice to have maybe on this
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earpiece or maybe on this one
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a slider that just balances you know
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more bluetooth
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more wireless but i have a feeling you
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would easily forget and if you were only
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using it for wireless
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it would be really soft and you'd be
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like what the heck's wrong and because
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it would be like 80
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bluetooth volume so you know issues
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there
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so maybe i shouldn't be a headphone
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designer now
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it does have a detachable microphone and
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the microphone sounds
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really good i'm going to give you a demo
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in a second it has
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a sound pressure level of greater than
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140 decibels
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and a background noise filter so all the
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chaos around you will be lowered by 20
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decibels
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while you're talking which is pretty
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handy if you live in
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a noisy environment like many of us do
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okay
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15 hour battery life plus or minus
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depending on how loud you listen to it
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and this is memory foam and don't worry
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for those
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vegans in the audience it is fake
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leather not real leather
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it's a pretty big heavy headphone it's
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11.2 ounces or 320 grams
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and it fits firmly as you would want it
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to
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but it might take a little getting used
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to it's not
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entirely like having your head in a vise
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but it's definitely a pretty tight fit
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if you have a larger cabeza like some
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people
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let me give you a demo of the microphone
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because that's actually pretty slick
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okay i had to fiddle a little bit with
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the settings on my android phone
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but now you're hearing the audio from
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this microphone
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rather than on the microphone on my
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phone or the microphone i've been using
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for the review
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as you can hear it sounds really good
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i'm pretty darn impressed
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now let me switch back
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so there's really a lot to like about
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this these are really nice
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easy functional headphones they sound
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really good it's
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bass heavy which you can obviously
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adjust with the eq depending on your
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source device
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but i really like it it's a big sound
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stage for gaming there's a lot going on
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it doesn't give you 3d spatial audio
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audis has a different pair of headphones
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for that
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but what this does deliver is really
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nice
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sound and big explosions and big
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anything in the lower frequency is going
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to just be a big experience with these
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which is really fun
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they are a little spendy there are a lot
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of headphones in the under 100
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range but these offer a lot of great
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features
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now my couple of criticisms of it are
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number one
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i'm not a huge fan of the mute button
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being where it is
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number two i wish there was an on
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headphones a
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way to control that balance of volume
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between bluetooth and wireless if you
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using both of them
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and number three though they label this
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as the multi-function button it really
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isn't and if you just use these as
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bluetooth headphones because you're
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listening to music for example
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there's no next previous pause play or
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anything like that
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that's a lack so there's a couple of
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things i wish they would add
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particularly given its price
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but if you're looking for gamer
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headphones that do bluetooth and plug
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into a lot of different devices and come
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with its own dongle and everything
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and a lot of different cables so it's
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usbc
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to usb3 usbc to usbc
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and a 3.5 millimeter aux cable it's a
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lot of additional options
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so these are pretty darn nice headphones
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and definitely worth checking out they
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also obviously don't have flashing neon
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lights or anything like that
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i like that i don't need my headphones
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to light up i want my game to light up
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so we need to talk about the price but
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before we get to the price give me some
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feedback give me a thumbs up leave a
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comment with some
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information on what you're using and
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whether you've had these and what your
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experience was with these
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and of course i'm always happy to have
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you subscribe to my channel and really
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appreciate every single subscriber
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all right these are the audis penrose
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wireless headphones and there are two
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models
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these are just the penrose and these are
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for the playstation mac
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windows etc and then the other model
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they have is for the xbox
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one those are called the penrose x in
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both cases the audis
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penrose wireless headphones are 299.
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at amazon.com so they're at the higher
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end of gamer headphones but i think you
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heard
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the audio is terrific the microphone's
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terrific
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the wireless functionalities clean
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simple and easy
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there's a lot to like about these so
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definitely worth checking out
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and as for me i think i'm gonna go and
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play some
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gaming on my computer so that means i'll
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catch you
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in my next video
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