Amazon.com: Customer reviews: Razer Thresher Ultimate for Xbox One: Dolby 7.1 Surround Sound - Lag-Free Wireless Connection - Retractable Digital Microphone-Base Station Wireless Receiver

Xbox Thresher ultimates are much better than the TBx12 and TB XO seven Pro.

Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2018

I play only COD, so this is from a COD player. The sound quality is nice. It has good bass and nice highs/ lows. It’s easy to hear enemies coming up behind you, so you won’t get panic knifed in the back.

I had bought the adapter and used my TB X12s on my Xbox one, but the sound quality had dropped, so I was looking for an alternative. I tried the TB XO seven pros. Those were just as bad. The Thresher is a huge step up ( although much more expensive). The headsets are so good I don’t even have to use the Dolby button on the base to hear where the enemies are.

The mic quality is good, I guess. No complaints from my friends. My only small complaint is that the chat/ game balance doesn’t allow me to hear my friends as crystal clear as I’d like ( when using the Dolby surround). I like to hear the game more than my friends, but they get drowned out by the game sometimes.

I was confused as to which audio setting to use. The pamphlet said to use the optical cable out and Dolby setting. However, I tried using the Microsoft Sonic setting. Honestly, I couldn’t tell a difference.

Lastly, I thought about getting the Astro A50s, but they haven’t updated the headsets in a couple of years, so this was the newest headset with equally good reviews. And I’m glad I got these.

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Douglas E. Brace

Best totally wireless headset for thr price!

Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2021

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FYI, if you plan on using these with an Xbox Series X, the Series X doesn't have an optical port to plug into, from the headset transmitter, so you will need to purchase a converter on Amazon, if you plan on using the chat function of this headset. This headset will still work fine with an Xbox Series X, less the optical port, but if you use the chat function, as most do, you will not be able to use the Chat/Game Balance Wheel located on the Left Earcup. The volume between Chat and Game is all the same and cannot hear friends in chat well when playing games. You need to be able to use the optical .

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Paul Cannon

BROKE AFTER ONLY 5 DAYS...!!

Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2019

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This headset is garbage!! Ordered the first one and after just 1 week of use the headset stopped transmitting sound from the xbox. Would still connect to audio hub and still have all the functions available, (mic monitoring, mute, volume tones, etc.) but no sound from the xbox was present. Thought it might just be a bad headset, so i called amazon and they sent me a replacement really fast. Got the second one in and they SAME problem after only 5 days! So i called razer directly and their “technical support” basically just told me to try turning it off and back on again. Called amazon and finally got a refund today. Dont get me wrong, these are incredible headphones, when they work.... super comfortable, great sound, true dolby 7.1 surround sound. But for a $250 headset to have a detrimental problem like this, its sad. Especially coming from a name like razer. Hope this helps, spend your money on a more proven headset for xbox, like turtle beach, or hyperx, or astro.

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B-Man

Decent headphones at best.

Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2019

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6 months ago, I decided to try a pair of wireless headphones for my Xbox One X. I can say with confidence that I’m overall satisfied with my decision. However, the bass from explosions and gunfire is punchy, but doesn’t rattle my skull like I hoped they would. I got a wired set of HyperX Clouds about 2 years ago and the bass was quite mouth opening. The HyperX however ended up losing audio in one ear cup and eventually both after a couple months. With these Razer Threshers though, I am proud to say I’ve had zero problems except for the fact that the bass isn’t as good as I wanted it to be. The comfort this headset offers is so satisfying being someone with an average sized head. They do tend to slip off my head a bit if I jerk my head around in frustration or excitement. The sound quality is good for its price. And as long as you treat them with care and respect, putting them back on the headset stand when charging and making sure both earcups are symmetrical when not in use, these headphones will hold up for at least 6 months. Now for personal preferences. I play Rainbow Six Siege, and if you play that game you know how important footsteps are. I find myself having a 50/50 chance of hearing someone flanking me and either turning around just in time to react or not being able to hear the enemy fast enough. This, and the average bass have given me thoughts of buying a different headset. As I said originally though, the sound quality is good, comfort has allowed me to wear this headset all day, battery life is somewhere around 14-16 hours, and the only issues I have are personal preferences rather than technical flaws. Easy 4 out of 5 rating for me.

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IDO KLIER

It’s great

Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2018

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I think these headset really worth it. It’s comfortable, compatible, the sound is crystal clear and it’s all good. The reason why I gave it 4 stars is because of the Dolby I thought that only when I press the Dolby button I’ll have 7.1 but I actually figured out that without pressing I have a 7.1 game shooter that is awesome and when I press the button you’ll get a Dolby audio 7.1 of movies that is also super cool but at my first weeks I was really frustrating because I couldn’t understand why when I play shooter games it sounds better without the Dolby of movies. And so I think they should clear it out more. It took me a while to figure it out until I saw that the 150$ virsion of ps have only the 7.1 of the shooter games and because it doesn’t have the base station you can’t get the Dolby audio of movies and films plus the base station doubles the range you can go with the headset befor it disconnects and some more Features that do make it the Razer Ultimate.

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Jared Ledford

If you’re on the fence, read this.

Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2019

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First off, if you’re searching the reviews and you’re on the fence about wether to get this or not DONT. Despite the reviews I decided to give this a chance and it worked as intended for 1 of the 4 days I had it. Straight out of the box the audio to poping and crackling on the settings the instructions told me to put it on. Turning on the surround sound only made it worse. Eventually I played with the audio settings on my Xbox enough to get something playable. I played for 2 hours with it and that was wonderful! I turn off my set up and go to bed, the next day it’s like that never happened cracklings and popping again. This went on for 3 more days with me tuning things to get something useable out of the audio only to have the next use be back at square one. Don’t get these, spend your money on something more reliable.

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Telli1105

Is it worth the money?

Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2018

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Let me first say that I'm old...really old, especially when it comes to gaming (I started playing in my mid 40's) and I've always just used the headsets that came with the unit until 3 years ago when I decided to "upgrade" to a $50 microsoft headset. I was perfectly content with that headset until somehow I cracked it by probably falling asleep on it. My teenage son bragged all the time about his top of the line Astros. Therefore after hours of research and trying to discern the best I could from the upper tiered headsets reading all the reviews, I settled on the Razer Thresher Ultimate headset and here's why. I didn't want to have to worry about syncing it up to my Xbox one S and deal with potential pairing problems. I also didn't want to have to buy any type of extra equalizer to get the dolby surround sound. I also didn't want to spend over $250 which I swore I'd never spend over a $100. But since my 55th birthday was just around the corner, I decided I was worth it. Not to mention I was tired of getting destroyed on BlackOps 4 and at my age I need every advantage I can get. So I figured being able to hear footsteps and what direction bullets were flying from might help. The one thing that struct me right off the bat was the quality of packaging and materials itself. Extremely high end quality. It was nice to see and feel like the money I spent I was getting quality. I found setting up my Razer ID and registering my product somewhat confusing. It says to get an ID then register it, but when you do that it asks for your Razer ID? I just decided to skip over the Razer ID box and put in my information. Once I did that it gave me my my ID. The other part that was confusing was it said to enter the the product number. Well there are 2 of those, one for the hub and one for the headset and it's not clearly identified on the box. Once that was done it was time to set it up. This was easy even for someone like me following the tiny directions in the pamphlet. What I didn't like was the pamphlet didn't include HOW to work the volume knobs. I know what you're thinking, how tough can that be? Again, I'm old, so I couldn't read what the microscopic symbols on the headset were. So at first I couldn't hear anything, then I could only chat and not hear the game. I tried in vain to raise and lower the wheels but I either blew my ear drums out with the game sounds and couldn't hear my teammates or vise versa. Finally I decided I'll look on the website and try and find support. After clicking on the product, on the left side of the page there is a link for the master guide which clearly explains the two wheels. One of the wheels is the balance between the game and chat volume, the other thumb wheel is the overall volume which can be pushed in to mute the mic which I'm not a big fan of. I'd much rather just to be able to flip the mic up to mute it like some other headsets have. Why this information wasn't included in the pamphlet that came in the box I have no idea?! So now that I know this, it took me awhile to get the correct balance. I didn't like when you turn the thumb wheel all the way up or down it emits a tone. The problem is it's the same sounding tone and you can keep spinning in so it doesn't stop. I would think once you go all the way in one direction it would stop and you could work your way back, but nope. I'm also not sure if I'm a fan of the retractable mic. Maybe it's better than flipping it up so it doesn't break as easy? But time will tell. So now comes the sound review part. It gets plenty loud enough to hear, in fact so loud it sounds like your in one of those movie theaters where the sound is deafening. There is 0 lag and the chat is clear although once in a while I hear some crackling but it goes away quickly. My friends say they can hear me fine and I sound clear. The ear cups are comfortable enough so that my glasses aren't pinched to my head and my ears stay fairly cool unlike my old headset where I'd have to take them off cause I couldn't take how hot my ears were. I do think they are a tad heavy with the metal support over the head band, but again maybe that's a good thing as far as not breaking easily? The other thing I like is that you can keep them plugged in to play if for some reason you forget to charge them from the night before. And they give you really long cable to do so. Now for the million dollar question, do I hear the footsteps and can pinpoint which direction they are coming from or which way the bullets are flying? It's definitely better than what I had. Is it $200 better? For now I'd say no. I'm not sure if I'm gonna keep them or get the Astro A50 which are even more expensive.

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Alex

This is the one

Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2020

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This is the one. I got increasingly frustrated looking for a wireless Xbox one headset with all of the reviews on other products being like “yeah it disconnects randomly every 20 minutes” or “the mic quality sucks and my teammates complain” or “I have to reboot the base station every time I turn my Xbox one”.

Not with these.

If you’re looking for a no nonsense wireless Xbox One headset, you’ve found it. I’ve used it for about 20 hours of gameplay now, and there have been no disconnects, no complaints of mic quality, and no issues to speak of. It works exactly like you’d expect.

The sound quality is exactly what you’d expect from a gaming headset. As in, good, not great, but if you want great sound quality you really shouldn’t be buying a headset, especially a wireless one.

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MR

Thresher is better than astros and turtles wireless. Ear cushions a bit thin though.

Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2019

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I purchased these (thresher ultimate), Astro A50’s, and Turtle beach ear force 800, over a span of 6 months.
I like the threshers the most overall. Astros and Turtle beaches both had connectivity issues atleast once out of every 5 hour session of playing. This to me is unnaceptable for the price point. They both also have a higher price point due to their charging station, which barely works. It takes an average of 10-15 seconds of fumbling to get the connection points to line up in order for the headphones to charge. Ill stick to 1 second to stick a charging cord in (they should really add strong magnets to line them up).
Overall, The threshers have been much better but I do have one complaint. When playing daily, my ears start to hurt after the second hour of playing. I am not sure if there is a defect in this set’s ear muffs or not, but it is becoming bothersome. I have owned these before and never had this issue.
I have been searching for replacements for the ear cushions that are thicker in order to keep pressure off of the lobes of my ears. So far no such luck.

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CARY J ORGERON

Solid premium headset, but like most a little over priced.

Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2018

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I Bought the Thresher Ultimate's for Xbox One. After being a Turtle Beach user for many years I decide it was time for a new direction, especially after my last set cracked twice despite being care for immaculately by myself. These are big, very big headsets. Surprisingly very comfortable once on my head I barely notice them. Sound quality is very good and very comparable to the premium Turtle Beach headsets. Love the retractable microphone feature as well. The physical design is nice, my one complaint is because of the bulk of the headset and ear phone the ear pieces ten to rotate back when hanging on stand are holding in hand. The weight cause them to swing hard if you don't pick them up a certain way. So my concern could be breakage from that happening over time if no careful. I give it 4 stars for that reason and I'm still exploring it's features so could bump up to 5.

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