![]() ![]() The i30 has a wired headphone port, and it comes with a 4-pole cable so that it can transmit its microphone over that wired connection. Thankfully, the i30s can be looked at as a wired headset that also works as Bluetooth wireless when you’re just listening to music or perhaps watching a movie and you don’t mind the gap between the voices and the lips moving. And since mobile gamers needing wireless near-zero latency is probably a small audience, it’s likely that a serious advance in Bluetooth, or some alternative that provides zero-latency applications will need to be necessary for wireless gaming headphones for mobile to work. ![]() Turtle Beach makes an i60 headset that offers a wireless alternative for PCs, but it appears to use dual-band wifi. As such, making a mobile Bluetooth headset for gaming may be impossible at this point. This immediately crushes one of the key features of the i30s, and it’s not really its fault: even specially-designed Bluetooth low-latency audio functionality is not going to be suitable for serious gamers who want to reduce latency to as close as zero as possible. But for games where audio is key? Pull out the wired cable. For non audio-intensive games, this isn’t a problem, you might get used to it after a while. If you play a game, you’ll notice a delay. Bluetooth just isn’t great for low-latency audio at all. So if you buy the Turtle Beach Ear Force i30 Headphones for gaming over Bluetooth, you will be disappointed. Unfortunately, not even them could sort out the issue of Bluetooth not being good for game audio. If anyone could sort it out, why not Turtle Beach, with a $300 headset made specifically for iOS? They are well-known for their gaming headsets, and I have a wired headset that I bought a few years ago that works well for what I need when I need it. When I received the Turtle Beach Ear Force i30 Headphones for review, my hope was that they could solve the problem that exists with cheaper Bluetooth headsets that I’ve used: audio latency that makes them unpleasant to use with games.
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