Physical Design

The physical design of these headphones is rather good.  The ear pieces are grey while every other part is black, the ear cups and the top headpiece both have padding for comfort, and on each ear piece is a nice little row of LEDs.

Although the headphones seem and look rather bulky, they are quite comfortable and can be worn for a long period of time.  However some may find them a little uncomfortable if you like the ear pieces to go completely around your ear rather than rest on your ear.  And if you happen to have a large melon, the headphones easily adjust in size to fit almost anyone without compromising comfort.  Also worthy of a mention, which in our opinion should be on every pair of headphones, is the single plug-in lead that comes out of the left ear piece.  Rather than a lead coming out of each ear piece which can cause some tangling of cords, having the one lead is definitely a must these days.

Also included in the design of the AudioFX headphones is the volume/vibrate control pod.  A necessary addition, this pod controls your sound level and the intensity of the vibration from the headphones, or you can turn off the vibration altogether.  The one downside to this pod is the sheer size of it; it's almost on the terms of ugly and likely could have been made smaller.

Now onto the cord itself.  With the cord being over 8 feet long, you shouldn't have any length troubles when streaming the cord from your computer to yourself.  Of course on the end of the cord you have your speaker and microphone connectors but you also have a USB connector to draw power to the headphones in order to power the force feedback and LEDs.  This is a great design eliminating the need for batteries there-for making the headphones lighter and save you the trip to your local electronics retailer to buy batteries regularly.  However, there is a slight problem some may run into with this design.  Your speaker, microphone, and USB ports must be somewhat close together in order to plug them all in.  Each connector does have individual leads of about 1 foot, so if you want to plug in your speaker and microphone in one area and your USB connector in another area that is about 2 feet away you might run into some problems.  But for the majority, you should be fine.

Last, but not least is the nifty LEDs featured on each ear piece.  Put simply enough, they're just for show lighting up in-sync with outputted sound from the headset.  It does look neat and will certainly turn a few heads and create some questions.