My son wanted an upgrade to the flimsy headset that came with his Xbox One so we did some research on Amazon and finally settled on this headset.



Pros

* Comfortable, can wear for long periods of time

* Feel sturdy - they're no Grado, Bose or Senheiser, but they don't feel like they were made with tin foil either.

* Very good sound quality in both directions (mic and drivers)

* Retractable mic

* Work just fine with Xbox One Controllers post Nov 2015 (older ones will need adapters which negate the cost savings)



Cons

* Cable - good quality but too long and with both USB and 3.5 jack permanently attached



Other thoughts

When reading reviews for headsets, I observed that pretty much for the whole range from cheap ones to expensive ones, there were always some reviews where either the mic or one driver stopped working after a short period of time - this got me scared because I could not judge whether going cheap would be a waste of money or whether going expensive was worth it. I finally decided that for this application, cheap would probably do and happy that it paid off. I cannot put the finger on why so many people have issues over such a wide range of headsets, but for us, this unit has worked reliably now for a few months. My son leaves these plugged to the Xbox One controller (no need for any adapters for the newer controllers - essentially since November 2015) and while they have not been treated particularly rough, he has not babied them in any way either. No complaints on how he sounds to others and the audio quality is good to listen.

In terms of looks, he loves them, which is what ultimately matters (I would have preferred a more subdued design for myself, but I'm getting old I guess).

There are 2 minor pet peeves make me call this a 4 star rather than 5: the cable, which is of good quality, is 6 ft long (too long for console gaming) and it has two dongles permanently attached to it: one with a 3.5mm stereo + mic jack and the other with a USB connector. I'm not sure on which platform I would ever want to have both dongles concurrently available, other than maybe me a laptop. I realize that when designing these, they tried to cover as broad a gaming base as they could (there is also a detachable dongle to split the integrated 3.5 stereo + mic jack into two separate 3.5 jacks for headphones and microphone connectors), but I can't help but wonder why they could not just figure out a modular system where you could just use the dongle you want at any given time instead. I would have paid a few bucks more just not to have the hideous USB thingy hanging around all the time.