Ozone Onda 3HX Gaming Headset Review

My first batch of tests for this headset were on the PC, running it through some rigorous music tests.  I picked three very challenging albums for this headset, expecting to find why its as cheap as it is compared to some of its rivals brands, giving it a good run through “Steve Vai – Passion and Warfare”, “Pendulum – In Silico” and finally “Bloodbath – Resurrection Through Carnage”, Vai offering an eclectic sound which is often lost on a lot of good quality speakers let alone a gaming headset, Pendulum offering some upbeat drum and bass and Bloodbath offering an album so heavy that its all but unplayable on most speakers due to its extremely low tuned guitars and vocals, but the response from the Onda headset is stunning, crystal clear at any volume high or low, able to reproduce deep and rich bass tones and crystal clear highs without loosing any of the fidelity in the midrange or distorting the music.  To put it short, I was blown away by its reproduction of these albums.

To test its gaming performance I fired up Battlefield 3 on both the PC and PS3, then Halo Reach for Xbox 360, the quality of the audio was as equally strong as with music, very clear game dialogue and crystal clear game chat while in game, for both me and the people listening on the other end of the Onda’s microphone on Xbox live, the headset even performed well for use on Skype, giving clear audio on both its microphone and headset.