![]() ![]() This way, the headset works with either device interchangeably. Personally I set it up so that the headset charging cradle sits on my desk plugged into my PC, with the USB-A dongle slotted into my Xbox Series X. (Image credit: Future)įirst and foremost, the base of the Nacon Rig 800 Pro HX includes a slot for a USB-A dongle that you can slide out and place into another device you want to use wirelessly with the headset. The USB-A dongle slides out of a cutout compartment in the bottom of the headset dock, where it otherwise resides for safekeeping. But what the device lacks in software functionality it perhaps makes up for in terms of useful hardware features. You simply plug the base into a USB-A port (on either your PC or your Xbox), grab the headset and go. The Nacon Rig 800 Pro HX doesn't have the sort of in-depth software that competitors like the SteelSeries Arctis 7 offer, so you don't have a lot of options to customize how it sounds. This is hardly a dealbreaker, but it does mean I can recommend this headset only to a very specific group of people: PC and Xbox owners who want a reliable headset for shooting the breeze with friends while shooting stuff in games. The Rig Pro 800 headset does a good job of emphasizing bass and treble, but anything in the midrange tends to sound a bit muffled. I was able to compensate for this by cranking the volume up, but that feels like an inelegant and potentially ear-damaging solution. Vocals and treble, on the other hand, didn't always come as clearly through the Nacon Rig 800 Pro HX as they do through my ~$40 pair of Jlab earbuds. Bass and sound in the low end of the spectrum sounded best to my ears. The Nacon Rig 800 Pro HX is a decent headset for listening to music, and you'll hear every note, but rarely did tracks sound as good as they do through a decent pair of speakers. When listening to music from artists such as Johnny Cash, John Coltrane, The Coup and The Mountain Goats, I had a similar experience. Cyberpunk 2077 sounded a bit better across the board than Elden Ring, but here again the headset really only shines when you're firing guns, or hearing the bass-heavy combat music kick up. In Marvel's Midnight Suns, the voice acting sounded good, but the music and sound effects again sounded strangely muted, as though I were hearing them through a thin layer of wood. While high-pitched sounds (like steel striking steel or magic spells firing off) came through clearly enough in the headset, the gentle background music and plodding footfalls of the protagonist sounded strangely muffled to my ears. But it really only shines in games with guns or other loud, percussive bass notes.Įlden Ring, for example, sounded worse through the Rig 800 Pro than it does through my TV's built-in speakers. I found the Rig 800 Pro to be a completely serviceable headset in every game, delivering all the sounds I needed to hear when I needed to hear them. I spent hours testing the device across both an Xbox Series X and a gaming PC, in games such as Cyberpunk 2077, Elden Ring, Forza Horizon 5 and Marvel's Midnight Suns. However, in my experience, the Nacon Rig 800 Pro HX is less well-suited to games with more nuanced and varied soundscapes. This is where the headset shines, and with Dolby Atmos enabled, it's an excellent pair of cans for games where you shoot things up with your squadmates. As far as the sound quality on the other end, my teammates claimed I sounded intelligible, but clearly like I was using a headset microphone.Īs far as sound quality goes, the 40mm drivers on the Nacon Rig 800 Pro HX do a great job of making explosions and gunfire in games like Battlefield and Call of Duty sound loud and impactful. Nacon Rig 800 Pro HX review: PerformanceĪcross hours of testing this headset in games such as Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 and Battlefield 2042, I had no issues with the microphone, which reliably communicated what I said, and switched off when I swung it up away from my face. The padding makes the headset comfortable enough that I had no trouble wearing it for up to four hours at a stretch while wearing glasses, although longer than that tended to give me a light headache. The earcups themselves sport thick rings of foam, and are large enough to make my normal-sized ears feel snug and cozy in the Rig 800 Pro HX. Then just pop it back into one of the other three holes on either side and you're good to go! (Image credit: Future) See those little grey rectangular things poking through the headset frame, one alongside each earcup? That piece holds the earcup in place, and to adjust it you need to push the grey protruberance back through the headset frame until the earcup pops free. ![]()
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