Video games are a audiovisual medium but it’s all too easy to place paramount importance on graphics cards and monitors, leaving our headsets or speaker setups behind. Putting on a headset like H6Pro Open reminds you how much of a difference sound makes in your gaming experience, both competitively and for narrative-driven titles. It’s an excellent pair of cans and they can now be yours for a song.
EPOS H6Pro Open
“H6PRO Open is the ideal headset for staying in touch with your environment or playing in quiet surroundings, with an immersive and expansive soundstage for the finest natural and realistic game audio.” – EPOS
On Amazon US, EPOS’ H6Pro Open is available for as little as $86.50. The storefront describes this as a 6% saving relative to its list price, but the headset has carried an average price of $154.37 across its lifetime, making this closer to a 44% discount. More importantly, it’s the most affordable these cans have ever been.
As their name suggests, H6Pro Open are open-back. This allows air to pass through the earcup and driver, removing any audio impurities caused by closed-back designs, such as resonances and low-frequency build up. While this can reduce the impact of bass, it does allow high and middle frequencies to sound much clearer. Summarily, the listening experience is markedly different to the ear compared to closed-back in a manner that can produce a more pleasing and detailed listen.
However, in order to get the most out H6Pro Open you’ll need a quiet environment. Their open-back earcups allow sound to leak in and out, meaning you’ll hear everything around and everyone else will hear all that you’re listening to. If you can manage that, though, you’re golden.
Speaking from experience, H6Pro Open makes for an excellent gaming headset. Its 42mm drivers share the same DNA as Sennheiser headphones, a name that should bring music to the ears of audio enthusiasts in the know. They’re large but light, as the cans weigh in at a mere 310g and feel even more lightweight thanks to ample padding across the headband.
The included microphone features a lift-to-mute function but you can also easily detach it from the headset if listening’s the priority of the moment. EPOS includes a cover plate for the microphone port too as a welcome additional touch that keeps the headphones looking their best sans a mic.
H6Pro Open includes two 3.5mm cables, one for your PC and the other for consoles. If your smartphone’s still lucky enough to be rocking a headphone jack, it’ll connect to that too without issue. Versatile, comfy, and a great listening experience, you can’t ask more from a headset.
