EPOS Sennheiser GSP 670
Sheer wireless luxury
PRICE $469 ONLINE www.eposaudio.com
Visually, the GSP 670 continues the GSP family’s aesthetic, which one might unkindly describe as Terminator earmuffs. The headset’s overall look is probably the aspect with which I’m least enamored. But Sennheiser was right to keep the headset’s scheme muted by using black and gray and avoiding RGB lighting or accent colors. With this many angles and surfaces, you don’t need any additional details.
Fortunately for your head, the GSP 670’s physical looks are the result of careful choices made in the name of comfort. At 398g, it’s on the heavy side for a gaming headset, but discomfort simply isn’t an issue with these cans. This is thanks to the mechanical outline of the headband and metal single-sided yoke, combined with an adjustable caliper pressure system at the top of the headband. By adjusting two sliders at each side of the headband, you can control precisely how much pressure the earcups exert on your delicate cranium, which is fantastically handy for anyone with an especially large or small head.
A perennial favorite feature of mine about Sennheiser’s gaming headsets is the boom arm design. In short, it has a mic mute built in so that you’re automatically muted when pushing the arm up and back to broadcasting when it’s down. The satisfying click felt when doing this really tells of the construction quality. I defy you not to move it up and down aimlessly, just enjoying the sensation, when you first use the headset.
A newer feature on the Senny cans is the inclusion of separate chat and game mix controls on the left earcup. I actively miss the chat mix thumb wheel of Arctis-brand headsets when we use rivals, so it’s great to see similar control schemes adopted elsewhere. You couldn’t master an album using them, but for gaming, movies, TV and music, these cans sounded wonderful. There’s a liveliness to them, which I suspect comes down to the luxuriousness of the contact points as much as the drivers. I could feel the music swelling and pulsing in pressure changes, as well as hear it. It’s a sensation I’ve always loved in Bose’s closed-back headphones and am always thrilled to find in the gaming market. Perhaps some gamers will find it a bit too busy at the bass end, but the GSP 670 really speaks to my personal preference.
This headset is virtual 7.1 surround sound compatible by using the Sennheiser Gaming Suite software’s Binaural Rendering Engine. If you want to get serious and listen out for positional audio cues in the likes of CS:GO, Sennheiser’s proprietary surround algorithm has your back and, indeed, your front and sides. PHIL IWANIUK
“FORTUNATELY FOR YOUR HEAD, THE GSP 670’S PHYSICAL LOOKS ARE THE RESULT OF CAREFUL CHOICES MADE IN THE NAME OF COMFORT.”