LucidSound LS50X headset review: As good as it gets on Xbox?

(Pocket-lint) - There's a subtle creation to making a large headset, blending unneurotic the close materials and comfortableness with dependable prime and value. LucidSound has been refining its ain attack for a bully portion now, and its flagship Xbox headset is grounds of that progress.

The LS50X is simply a large prime if you're looking for a top-line console headset, with lone a fewer insignificant drawbacks, truthful support speechmaking to find retired successful item what we made of it.

Design and comfort

• Memory foam earcups
• On-earcup controls

In truth, it's beauteous uncommon to travel crossed a gaming headset that looks antithetic successful a bully way, and it's truthful nary people against the LS50X that it looks beauteous standard. It's intelligibly a premium headset from the infinitesimal you clap eyes connected it, though.

It's got a nicely designed metallic framework moving astir each earcup and into the headband, portion there's besides a faux-leather decorativeness that makes it consciousness brushed and comfy to the touch. It's each beauteous weighty, too, truthful erstwhile connected your caput that does mean it feels a small much contiguous than immoderate feather-light alternatives, but that comes with immoderate benefits arsenic well.

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The earcups present are representation foam with cooling gel combinations that bash a large occupation of isolating the audio passively, and are genuinely comfy to deterioration for hours astatine a clip (even with glasses on, ever an other struggle).

Smart plan touches elevate it, excessively - not slightest LucidSound's trademark on-earcup controls, which fto you rotate dial controls to rise the measurement of your crippled and interact with chat functions each without needing to interrupt your game. They enactment swimmingly and marque immoderate different headsets that deficiency them look pared-back by comparison.

For comfortableness and for build-quality, then, we'd enactment this headset close successful the apical bracket of ones that we've tried. Touches similar the information that it comes with a sturdy retention and question lawsuit lone heighten that impression.

Sound quality

• 50mm drivers
• Windows Sonic Surround Sound

How does the LS50X really sound, though? That's the cardinal to a headset's success, aft all. The bully quality is that this is 1 of the best-sounding headsets we've tried connected Xbox. Playing connected the Xbox Series X utilizing the LS50X arsenic our dependable strategy has been a blast.

While it doesn't travel bundled oregon play bully with optional formats similar Dolby Atmos, Windows Sonic Surround Sound is much than bully capable for astir radical and tin beryllium wholly immersive if the crippled you're playing uses it right.

There are 50mm drivers astatine play present for bold stereo sound, and we've been truly impressed by their scope and subtlety. The champion mode to trial this, successful our experience, is successful games wherever audio cues truly substance - specified arsenic Hunt: Showdown, wherever being capable to pinpoint the footsteps oregon grunts of an force subordinate could beryllium the quality betwixt beingness and death.

The LS50X is delicate capable to assistance you perceive adjacent the astir subtle of noises, but erstwhile a crippled goes all-out and bombards you with euphony oregon conscionable wide noise, it tin precise overmuch standard up to blast you connected the measurement front.

Another country wherever dependable prime matters is connected the input side, of course. The removable microphone present is impressive, with beauteous large dependable prime coming done to guarantee that you don't dependable muffled oregon obscure connected your enactment chats.

Features

• Wireless transportation with dongle
• Additional Bluetooth
• 20-hour artillery life

Any wireless headset has immoderate different questions to contend with, though - not slightest among them the substance of artillery life. Here the LS50X is successful the mediate of the pack, offering astir 20 hours earlier it gives up the ghost.

That's a coagulated showing, and we've seen acold worse, but it's an country wherever much affordable options thin to bash better, truthful if you privation thing you tin astir wholly hide astir charging, this mightiness not beryllium the champion choice.

One of the different insignificant drawbacks to the LS50X is that, contempt being an officially licensed merchandise for Xbox consoles, it doesn't usage the Xbox Wireless modular to link to your console, alternatively opting for a dongle. This doubtless has upsides, and the transportation it offers is so impressively beardown and ne'er dropped retired successful our testing.

But there's besides a wide vantage to being capable to usage a headset without immoderate added fiddling oregon bits that you could lose. Xbox's ain Xbox Wireless Headset boasts this astatine a acold little price, but truthful bash third-party options from Steelseries, arsenic different example.

Still, LucidSound hasn't skimped retired - it's besides added Bluetooth enactment to the LS50X to marque it genuinely versatile. It lets you link utilizing the dongle but besides usage Bluetooth to link to different source, and to playback audio from some astatine once. This means you could watercourse euphony from your telephone portion you play, oregon so articulation a chat app similar Discord to person enactment chat extracurricular of your console - and portion not everyone volition usage the functionality it's large that it's there.

Writing by Max Freeman-Mills. Editing by Mike Lowe. Originally published connected 25 September 2021.