Corsair VIRTUOSO RGB WIRELESS XT vs ES100 MK2 Bluetooth Receiver

The Corsair Virtuoso RGB Wireless XT is pretty close to what I'm looking for except for the fact that the mic is omnidirectional. Budget - $300 CAD. Although willing to stretch to $400. Source/Amp - Plugged into onboard soundcard (mostly)

Everything I'm reviewing up to this point is things that I own. I personally, I own it, I wanted to see, wanted to find the best I am, so I bought a b...

Heck, you'll probably mix up the two right here, they look so similar. Again, you got that full swivel and everything, metal arm adjustable right ther...

I’ve taken very good care of it. Never dropped and have been careful to lock the outputs. I’ve tried to email ransone’s support with no reply. Update: It still behaves as described above but if I forget the device and re-pair, it seems to sort out most times

I've already tried the top 2, that being Steel Series Arctis Pro Wireless and the Corsair Virtuoso XT. Unfortunately, I had some problems with both of them though, so I ended up returning them. The Steel Series had a constant white noise sound in them that I couldn't get rid of no matter what I did.

There are electrical noise benefits for balanced operation, especially for long cables, and there are theoretical benefits from cancelling even harmonic distortion, but I have to admit that for a 6" cable, you are not likely to notice any benefits. However, if you are making your own cable, it's more fun to make a balanced cable which has the best possible results (even if not all of those results are necessarily noticeable from an audio perspective).

Even when using the default "Pure Direct" EQ settings or my tweaked EQ settings there is sometimes a crack/pop/distortion in both certain games/music which occurs that is very unpleasant. Yes I may have received a defective pair of cans but I cannot unhear the distorted audio. 2nd biggest issue from my perspective. Pads are a bit shallow for me personally and my ears touch the inside near the driver

This is why I don't plug any of my high-end audio devices directly into my Samsung Si+ And that's because not only does it not power them correctly, t...

UPDATE: I managed to install iCUE 4 on another computer, and I can confirm that with the LEDs off, the battery lasts much longer. Now, the issue is that it can't charge fast enough, even on a very good USB charger. Somewhere in the labyrinth of articles that corsair calls their help system, I read that for some reason, it should be charged from a standard USB port instead of a charger, but that didn't charge it fast enough either. Ten-ish hours of charging should be enough to fully charge it, but it's not

Every time I charge it I have to be super vigilant in case it connects to a device without me realising and saps the battery from both. The BTR5 is much better in this regard and tends to have a good balance. Overall I'd say it's good enough, but this market segment has had a lot of competitors pop up since this was originally released, and as such you'd probably be better served looking elsewhere right now. I'd also suggest the Fiio BTR5 over this, but only due to the far superior build quality - functionally they're about the same

Corsair mades ZERO replacements to their proprietary earpad design. If you buy the pads the same thickness as the stock ones that the headset came with, they are reviewed as not as comfortable as the stock pads..

They're not really headphones. They're in-ear monitors, but we didn't come to talk about that, so I'm going to put these away for now. I'm going to se...

I bought them on sale, so with the earpads added it was something like $270 total. My head is small, so I bought it despite the reviews that warned me about this. I wanted a headset I could connect to both my home and work PC at the same time and these allowed for that due to the bluetooth. They're sturdy, good quality build, and the battery life is great

Hey guys today I Want to talk about the Es-100 from Ear Studio and this is made by a parent company Rad Sone and they just released their Mk2 version ...

Even their much cheaper HS80s have that design. It is kind of crazy they didn't use it as it is just objectively more comfortable and these are so dang expensive. In the end, my biggest issue is Corsair putting these at a price point north of $250 and people having to buy aftermarket earpads for them to keep them on for more than 30 min without getting a headache. In the end, I don't think I'd recommend these to anyone given the price

I tested with a pair of Sennheiser Momentum Studio headphones, Shure SE425 IEM's, Shure SE215 IEM's and some cheap Skull Candy earbuds--just to name a few. My recommendation is to buy this unit and pair it with some inexpensive IEM's like the Shure SE215 or the Westone W20; instead of buying a piar of "Truly" Wireless Earbuds with the very limited Bluetooth capabilities and sound quality. If you are going to spend $200-300 on Wireless earbuds, anyway, it would be better to buy some descent IEM's and pair it with the ES100 BT module. I promise you, it is worth it