The Nuraphone headphones are getting a gaming microphone attachment

The company behind the $399 Nuraphone Bluetooth hearing-correcting headphones have made a new play microphone accessory that effectively makes the wireless headphones wired. The mike costs $49.99 — on top of the somewhat perpendicular cost for the Nuraphone. Even so, it allows the headphones to plug into anything that accepts a 3.5mm jack, then they can be ill-used with PCs, Macs, seaborne devices, the Nintendo Exchange, and mod console controllers.

The mike attachment is as deltoid as it sounds. The flexible boom mike attaches to a proprietary port on the bottom of the Nuraphone's right earcup, which way you can't use it with any other set of headphones. Part of the way down the long electric cord there's an inline remote with volume controls and a mic mute switch. Once it's plugged in (and aft you've updated the Nuraphone app), the Bluetooth headphones effectively become a wired gaming headset. Though that's underselling information technology a trifle.

For this wired mode, the Nuraphones employ the same unique hearing profile that's active when you're connected to a speech sound via Bluetooth. With this bran-new functionality enabled by an app update, Nura aims to clear its Nuraphones a solid option for gamers. The profile should play to the strengths and compensate for any hearing weaknesses you may have, in addition to letting you chat with your friends. A trifle of active noise cancellation kicks in when you plug it in, too.

After my short experience with both the Nuraphone and the microphone affixation, I think the accessory is a no-brainer purchase for anyone who has already bought the headphones. The sound performance is selfsame punchy, yet balanced, and the mike works on the dot as I hoped IT would. I haven't spent sufficiency time with the Nuraphone or the original accessory to within reason judge whether they make a Brobdingnagian remainder in a miscellanea of games, though Control's awesome audio design rang out fully effect. It wasn't revelatory at first blush, merely I enjoyed the undergo.

As for whether you should cough up $399 for the Nuraphone just to get this attachment, I'll shelve to my colleague Jake Kastrenakes' critique from 2017. Given, the Nuraphone has gotten some extra features and enhanced performance since then, soh the revaluation might not totally reflect what it's like to use them today. Today's freshly accessory marks some other exemplify of the team adding a welcome update for its headphones, albeit this time with a $49 price mark.

Nura isn't the only society releasing accessories to arrive at its headphones more appealing for gamers. Bose recently unveiled its QC 35 II gaming headset, which adds a wired microphone to its Bluetooth racket-canceling headphones for a complete cost of $329.