ASUS Echelon Review

👤by Tony Le Bourne Comments 📅16-10-13
Performance Testing

Setup, Design & Observations
At once, picking up the Echelon you realise it is light and the plastic feels a little plasticky though at this price and considering the 50mm drivers, some concessions could be expected. It isn't foldable, considering the large earcups you wouldn't expect that to be a feature, though there seems little reason as to why you can't use it on the move considering it has a 32 Ohm impedance which is fine to use on most current smartphones and portable devices. Upon wearing the Echelon, it has perfect clamping force and is very comfortable, light and impressive. Even when wearing glasses the Echelon provides good comfort and fit.



Multi-Media
Listening through the Sirens EP by Oceanus the Echelon revealed precise lows in the bass with strong mids and slightly weaker, yet clear highs. Bass guitar and lead worked together rather than fighting for supremacy and overall the sound quality reminded me of the Q-Pad QH-90 only with slightly better bass and slightly weaker highs. This is a one up over the SteelSeries Siberia V2 where the highs seem fairly diminished in favour of more, arguably unnecessary bass.

In game the Echelon perform impressively, going through a routine bash on Battlefield 3 and DOTA 2. The Echelon gave tingle feels with rumbling lows, clear mids and decent highs, the same story as heard with music. Explosions were impressive, gunfights intense while sneaking around felt sneaky. Team fights on DOTA 2 became a chorus of mayhem.

Microphone
The microphone is good quality and picked up only the loudest of background noises. The overall quality of the microphone was considered to be very good albeit one issue, others in my group chat revealed that they could hear videos/games/music that I was listening to as if they were listening to it. I checked my settings and could not find a fix for this other than turning the headset volume down, it could be an isolated case or user error but when in game with a group of friends, none reported it as being an issue.


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