Wireless Gaming Headset Reliability/Performance Issues

momeNt

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Is there a specific reason with the wireless technology or battery technology that results in Amazon review averages of popular wireless gaming headsets being well be low 4 stars?

Logitech
Astro
Turtle Beach
Corsair
Razer

Steel Series and Sony make a wireless headset that both crack 4 stars. I have no experience with the steel series but the Sony I am returning, the range is not very good on the wireless (20 feet tops compared to Logitech G930 closer to 50) and the mic when wireless sounds very muddled (crystal clear when hooked up analog).

Wireless headphones get great reviews quite often. Is the technology not there to both send and receive through the same dongle or something?
 

YBS1

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Likely because the wireless aspect introduces one more thing that can go wrong. My two sets of G930s have both been more trouble prone than my G35s. One set intermittently will drop in and out repeatedly on occasion until you close the Logitech software. No idea why it does it sometimes and sometimes not.