Audio Quality and Comfort

There is a lot at play when it comes to the comfort of the Cronos. The point of a gaming headset is to find a balance between a firm fit and comfort over a long duration. To do this Tt eSPORTS has chosen to make the headband padding out of a trio of Lycra pads. That’s right, spandex on your head. The same weaved material is also present in the ear cuffs as well in contrast to the normal faux leather padding found in a lot of headsets. This use of a more durable fabric is a nice thing to see. The whole headband is also adjustable along a sturdy metal slider making sure you’ll be afforded that perfect fit.

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The overall feel is one to get accustomed to at first like anything you are meant to wear. The Lycra headband pads sure do offer reduced pressure overall, instead distributing what would be all the weight to the top of your head to three points around it. The different fabric on the ear cuffs also feels a bit different at first but doesn’t chafe as one might expect. The feel is light and doesn’t cause a problem with extended use. Still, I feel the ear cuffs are a bit smaller then I like to see in gaming headset. Overall the Cronos is a very light headset and doesn’t leave you with that weighted down feeling.

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Bone Thugs ‘N Harmony – The Crossroads: With underlying elements and a strong bass track, this song actually proves to be a pretty decent track for testing the functionality of a gaming headset. The bass is not powerful but manages to convey that feeling when it is present. What the Cronos excels at is picking up the subtler elements of the song.

Nat King Cole – Unforgettable: A mellow piano track is certainly not something this headphone was made to deliver on but the Cronos does its job admirably, picking up on almost everything in the low to mid-range.

Eric Clapton – Tears in Heaven: A mellow rock track with a lot of individual instruments. Again the Cronos proves it can handle things it wasn’t meant to and means that if you’d like to listen to a little music on the side when you aren’t gaming it will be more than adequate.

Ludwig van Beethoven – Fur Elise: A classical masterpiece notoriously known for its low to high transitions and subtlety, the Cronos handles Beethoven like it would any game and conveys a sense of clarity you’d want.

Game – Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn: I chose to forego the usual TV/Movie test and instead review a pair of games since that is the Cronos’ primary intention. My first choice was a game that while sound may not be important, without it the whole experience is remarkably less (and to provide reason that I maybe have been playing it a bit too much lately.) The ambient noise comes across perfectly in tandem with Masayoshi Soken's perfectly adapted score bring the game to life.

Game – CS:GO: If you are like me, you play Counterstirke more with your ears then you do with your eyes. Subtle things like the volume of footsteps and the sound of bullets are more important that the radar could ever be. The Cronos do not disappoint. Keying on many things I sensed during the music testing, the headset is true the “premium sound for increased gaming awareness” tag line on the box. The Cronos is great at differentiating more subtle noises while still providing enjoyable sound quality.

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