Good looks. Bad fit. Ugly sound.

Author's Rating:

Pros: Good Range, cool looking, neat idea.

Cons: Everything else.

The Bottom Line: 
Don't bother. Life's too short - and your ears are too important - to listen to crappy sound from overpriced headphones.

Author's Review
I use headphones at work. In the past few years I have totaled three sets by tripping over the cables. So when I saw this item coming up at a bargain price I jumped on it.

What’s in the box: Headphones, transmitter, charger, Y-adapter (so that headphones and transmitter can be charged simultaneously), a pair of 3M sticky pads and a neat case to hold it all.

The headphones consist of two earpieces that link together with a plastic back-piece, and it is supplied with four different back-pieces for different-sized heads. Unfortunately none of the back-pieces fit my head properly. Two were too small, and the other two let the headphones flop down against my neck instead of the over-the-ear position that is shown in the ads and pictures. Perhaps the sticky pads would have made a difference.

The instructions are fairly poorly-written – a graphical sheet would have been easier to follow than the textual description (in five languages, naturally) that was supplied.

In spite of all this, I would have kept the item if it was not for one last straw that broke the proverbial camel's back. To put it bluntly, the sound quality was crap. Not just mediocre, but awful. Mid-range was lacking and treble was muffled. The overall effect was like listening to a song being played underwater or with a pillow over the speaker. The last headphones that sounded this bad came with an MP3 player and were thrown away within minutes. Switching to my cheap Labtecs yielded a massive improvement in sound quality. At ten bucks each I can afford to break them if the sound is decent.

Going to Saitek’s website did not help - their "products" page did not even mention this item, which leads me to believe that this product has been discontinued.

The good news was that range was good, and the technology worked. I did not use the item long enough to test the six-hour claim of battery life, but I have no reason to doubt it.

I returned this item in a matter of days.