Wyze Wireless Gaming Headset  Headphones Review

This gaming headset has a sleek and minimalist design. It's mostly plastic and aluminum, with faux leather covering the ear cups and headband. It only comes in one monochromatic colorway: 'Black'.

This headset is lightweight, and the ear cups are well-padded and deep, ensuring consistent comfort over long gaming sessions. However, like most over-ear headphones, comfort can be negatively impacted if you wear glasses, as the clamping force can push the arms into your temples. Since the headband and yolks can't move much, users with larger heads will experience undue pressure on the top of the head, which will negatively affect their comfort over time.

The control scheme is decent. It's easy to use and has good tactile feedback and its volume wheel stops when it's reached max/min volume. There are audio chimes when you turn the mic on and off, but no visual indicator for when the mic's muted, so it's easy to forget that your mic's off after a while. There's also no way to skip tracks with the controls, meaning you'll need to do it on your device.

On the left ear cup:

Volume wheel:

• Scroll: Raises and lowers the volume.

Mic button :

• Single press:Mutes and unmutes the mic.

On the right ear cup

Multifunction button:

• Single press: Plays and pauses audio. Also answers and ends calls.
• Press and hold: Rejects incoming calls and makes the headset enter Bluetooth pairing mode.
• Double press: Switches the connection between Bluetooth mode and wireless USB dongle mode.

Power button:

• Single press: Tells you the battery level via voice prompt.
• Press and hold for one second: Turns the headset on.
• Press and hold for 1.5 seconds:Turns the headset off.
• Press and hold for five seconds: Makes the headset enter wireless USB dongle pairing mode.

This headset has sub-par portability. While it's designed for use at your desk and on the go, you can't store it in any way that protects it or takes up less space. The ear cups don't rotate or fold into a different position for ease of transport, and it doesn't come with a protective case either, so you'll risk damaging it during a commute.

This headset has decent build quality. The aluminum hinges feel loose and slide out of the headband too quickly to properly adjust them. The ear cup and headband padding also feels cheap and could get flattened over time. The faux leather also wears down easily and could quickly crack after frequent usage.

The Wyze Wireless Gaming Headset has mediocre stability. It'll move around if you tilt your head or change positions mid-match and fall off completely with moderate or intense movement, like a run to get snacks while queueing. It's likely due to its low clamping force and lightweight design, which, while comfortable, doesn't give it enough hold to stay on properly.

• Wyze Wireless Gaming Headset
• Detachable boom microphone
• USB-A to USB-C charging cable
• USB-A Wireless dongle
• Quick start guide
• Sticker

The Wyze Wireless Gaming Headset has an excited, v-shaped sound profile. An overemphasis in the mid-bass range makes the mix sound muddy and hollow. The mid-range also suffers from an underemphasis in the high-mid that affects the clarity of dialogue and instruments. Thankfully, the treble range has better fidelity, giving the mix appropriate detail but making sibilants like S and T sounds slightly piercing. You can't change the sound profile since this headset doesn't have a compatible companion app or sound customization features, like a graphic EQ or presets. We also ran the same tests using the headset's wireless USB dongle rather than the included Bluetooth connection and found that the results were the same.

The frequency response consistency is disappointing. Because this headset moves around so much, it's hard to get consistent delivery in the high-mid and treble ranges every time you wear it. You'll especially notice a drop in bass delivery if you wear glasses, as their arms can break the ear cups' seal around your ears and let audio escape. When putting them on, take the time to ensure good placement and a proper seal.

This headset has adequate bass accuracy. There's an overemphasis in the mid-bass range. As such, sound effects like gunshots and explosions feel muddy and hollow. If you're listening to music like EDM and hip-hop, the bass range won't feel as thumpy and full but rather muddy and weak.

The mid-range is decently accurate. Low-mid and mid-mid are well-balanced, but the high-mid range is underemphasized. As a result, instruments in game soundtracks and dialogue between characters, like Shepherd and Garrus in Mass Effect 3, are full and present in the mix but less clear than one might desire. Keep in mind also that the muddy bass range has a further impact on clarity in the mid-range, especially with male voices.

This headset has great treble accuracy. The range is well-balanced, save for a slight overemphasis in the high treble. In tracks like Harbinger from the Doom (2016) soundtrack, guitars and synth effects sound detailed and well-articulated, but sibilants, like cymbals, can feel piercing.

The peaks and dips performance for this headset is sub-par. There are several big deviations across the range, meaning you'll experience inconsistent sound delivery while gaming. The dip in the low-bass reduces thump and rumble, while a substantial peak in the mid-bass makes gameplay sound bloated overall. There's a sharp dip in the high-mid range, followed by a wide peak in the low to mid-treble. As a result, dialogue and lead instruments sound muffled and harsh, while sibilants, like S and T sounds, are piercing.

The Wyze Wireless Gaming Headset's imaging performance is great. Wyze produces a lot of different products and are known for having good quality control and ergonomics. The group delay falls within acceptable limits, ensuring tight bass and transparent treble. The L/R drivers are well-matched, save for a small imbalance in the low-mid region. As such, voices and instruments feel out of place and overly cluttered, like too much of the track's mixing is right in front of you in the stereo image, leaving a space behind you that feels unnatural. Keep in mind, however, that imaging varies between units.

The Wyze Wireless Gaming Headset has poor passive soundstage performance. Its closed-back over-ear design doesn't let in ambient noise to mix with audio and create a more immersive experience. As a result, the soundstage feels closed-off and unnatural. It feels like audio is coming from close by instead of from all around the room.

Their weighted harmonic distortion performance is very good. There's some distortion present in the bass range at both moderate and high volumes, but it isn't noticeable with real-life content. The rest of the range falls within good limits, resulting in clear and pure audio reproduction.

These are the settings used to test this headset. Our results are only valid when used in this configuration.

This headset has very bad noise isolation performance. There's no active noise cancellation (ANC) feature, so it can only passively isolate you from ambient noise. It can't block out bass-range background noise, like passing traffic outside, and can just barely isolate you from ambient chatter nearby. However, it does a much better job of cutting out upper-range background noise, like a loud PC fan.

Leakage performance is only okay. Escaping audio is mainly concentrated in the upper-mid and treble ranges and will sound thin. At high volumes, leakage is noticeable in louder environments, like an office, which will annoy coworkers nearby.

This headset has two mics: The first is a detachable boom mic that sits close to your mouth. The second is an integrated mic that's built into one of the headset's ear cups.

The boom mic's recording quality is decent. Your voice sounds clean, understandable, and pure but slightly unnatural and very quiet. The internal mic also makes your voice sound quiet and far away. You can see our recorded speech test results for the internal mic here.

This headset's mics have great noise-handling performance. Your voice is very well separated by lower-volume background noise. The mic also does a good job of keeping you audible in louder environments. You'll sound thin if a subway is passing directly in front of you, but you'll still be heard on the other end, which is impressive.

The Wyze Wireless Gaming Headset's battery life is excellent. It lasts nearly 37 hours on a single charge, which is almost double the 20-hour time Wyze advertises. There's a ten-minute quick charge feature that gives you up to two hours of playback, as well as a ten-minute auto-off timer for power saving. Battery life can vary depending on usage.

This headset's Bluetooth performance is great. You can connect to two devices simultaneously, one via Bluetooth and one via the wireless dongle. However, you have to manually switch between sources using the multifunction button on the side of the ear cup. This means that you can't have your headset connected to a console and still seamlessly answer calls or listen to music on your phone. Bluetooth Latency is high on PCs and Android, so it's not an ideal connection for gaming or streaming. However, it's much better on iOS devices and won't give you any sound sync issues while watching a video.

Non-Bluetooth wireless performance is amazing. The USB dongle has extremely low latency, ensuring good audio sync while gaming or streaming.

The Wyze Wireless Gaming Headset comes with a USB-A to USB-C charging cable. It can't be used to listen to audio.

The Wyze Wireless Gaming Headset has full mic and audio compatibility with PCs via Bluetooth and the wireless USB dongle.

You can use this headset on PlayStation consoles via the included wireless USB dongle. When you do, you'll have full audio and mic compatibility.

You can't use this headset with Xbox consoles.

The headset comes with a wireless USB dongle for low-latency gaming on compatible consoles.