It has been fully six months since Nox Audio’s everything-but-the-kitchen-sink Admiral Touch headset prototype wowed us at CES 2011, and boy, have things changed. That ugly metal band is gone, replaced by a handsome black and silver rig, with a neatly integrated adjusting strap for a snug noggin squeeze. Either side of the Admiral Touch now sport buttons, including one to feature the T-Pain Effect (we kid you not). More after the break.
There is a new dial to regulate the combo between the Bluetooth and a couple of.4GHz audio channels at the fly, a resistive touchscreen and Samsung S3C6410 ARM11 chip that’ll 0 eventually 0 run Android 2.3, and an optional Bluetooth dongle that could pipe in Xbox Live voice chat out of your game controller — or dock with the revamped base station to feature PC audio. If the Nox designers get their way, you’ll also be ready to rotate the pull-out microphone to mute it, or tap a key to pipe in ambient audio so that you don’t miss any of your roommate’s hilarious jokes in regards to the touchscreen attached for your ear. However the biggest change to be present in the sole Android-equipped wireless noise-canceling virtual surround sound gaming headset the sector has seen is that this: vastly different audio quality.
Last time, the Admiral had nice clear mids, though the bass was hard to locate, so Nox replaced a
pair of transducers, tweaked the virtual 7.1 (Pro Logic IIx + Dolby Headphone 2) mix, and added an optional bass boost to compensate. We definitely appreciated that extra ooomph for movie explosions and so on, but we’re sorry to claim those clear mids were seemingly sacrificed within the quest for bigger booms — the marginally muddier mix made it difficult to spot individual instruments and directional audio cues even in Nox’s enclosed audio booth. Nox dreams big, and we’re hoping the corporate can pull all of it off; the bottom Admiral is slated to ship in Q4, and the Touch module and bundle early next year.
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