Ear pads
The sponges covered with PU synthetic leather are unfortunately much too soft and they exude the certain flair of older French car seats, where side support is completely undesirable and you have the passenger end (he, she, it) sitting on your lap in a tight right turn. There’s nothing with memory here either, the plastic is just fluffy and tuffy. In return, it gets damp over time, because there is no ventilation. But the main problem of the upholstery is the acoustics.
One wavers here between acceptable low bass and much too much overemphasized upper bass, depending on the position or contact pressure. You really have to take a closer look at the positioning if you want to listen to good music in a relaxed way. This is a complete exclusion criterion for me personally in the 300 euro segment. Others may certainly see it less krtically, but I consider it a real material defect that tears the otherwise very good product down a bit. That is really annoying.
You can see it very well in the pictures (above) that the lugs of the inner ring are pressed into the ear cup and you can also remove the pads by pulling them out (please be careful!). The foam visible in the pad also shows the cutout for the ANC microphone in each of the two ear cups. Both ear cups are different (i.e. laterally reversed), so an embossed letter helps with orientation.
Teardown
The picture below also shows the speaker, i.e. the driver, which sits slightly angled behind the cover and can radiate relatively freely. Here you can certainly see some of the weak points in the frequency curve, which is not so easy to mod. You can also see the glued ANC microphone and the clips for the ear pads.
The built-in 50 mm neodymium driver in the upper shell is firmly glued in and not just screwed, which actually makes a non-destructive replacement impossible. That is quite pointless, also in terms of possible repairs. What are the screws for then? The same applies to the battery compartment in the left shell, where the access to the electronics in the inner life by nasty glue remains verwert, although everything was again elaborately screwed. Or should the reviewer only be kept from looking in by the subsequently applied glue?
Yes, my fingers were itching to break the whole thing open the Russian way with really heavy cutlery. But out of respect for the product, I will spare you these pictures. There shouldn’t be any big surprises inside anyway. By the way, the right side looks the same inside. Covers, screws and buckets of glue. And right there, I noticed a detail that really puzzled me. Let’s take a look at the picture and the yellow markings:
Both outer sides have two slit openings in the body of the shell and I would have now suspected additional microphones there. Inside, however, is soch there with both shells only a glued grid and nothing else. You have already seen the interior above, there are also no additional openings or microphones hidden. I also didn’t manage to find any real microphones anywhere. Strange… By the way, telephony via Bluetooth and smartphone sounds horrible. It is reverberant and muffled and you can hear yourself. Should Turtle Beach have simply “misused” the two ANC microphones for this, that would be rarely stupid.
The fact is that the two openings are more likely to be used for bass, because a small bass port, also covered with fabric, can be seen on the cover of the drivers inside. If you want to mod, you may line the naked interior in the shells with some thin foam or fleece or tape the port a bit. depending on your taste. Thank you also to the community for your appropriate tips on the subject of modding, something like this is of course always welcome.
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