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When it comes to headphones, JBL usually does an excellent job of giving their customers great sound and they’ve done a lot of great work over the years regarding audio equipment. but JBL is new to gaming, and they’ve launched the JBL Quantum ONE wired gaming headset with not only features 7.1 simulated sound but also active noise cancellation and spatial awareness depending on the gaming hardware you plug it into.
JBL Quantum ONE has unique features and designs as a PC headset than a console headset. So Let’s talk about a brief overview of the pros, cons, and specifications of this wired gaming headset.
Pros
- Good Sound Quality with DTS and Spatial surround sounds.
- Super comfortable with an extraordinarily nice amount of padding.
- Positional audio with Head Tracking feature.
- Great Active noise canceling.
- Easy-to-use controls on the left ear cup with great accessories.
- Compatible with all consoles with USB and 3.5mm cables.
- Programmable 6 different lighting patterns.
- Excellent Windows app with a lot of customization.
Cons
- Wired headset with a lot of wires.
- Expensive
- Features work only on Windows.
- Too heavy than other headsets with more plastic.
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Specifications
Headphone
- Wearing Style – Over-Ear (Circumaural)
- Sound Field – Stereo
- Driver Type – Dynamic
- Magnet Type – Neodymium
- Driver Size – 1.97″ / 50 mm
- Active Noise Cancellation – Yes
- Controls Locations – Cable, Left Earcup
- Noise Attenuation – Yes
Audio Specifications
- Impedance – 32 Ohms
- Passive Frequency Response – 20 Hz to 40 kHz
- Active Frequency Response – 20 Hz – 20 kHz
- Sensitivity – 95 dB at 1 kHz / 1 mW
- Maximum Sound Pressure Level (SPL) – 97 dB
Microphone
- Number of Voice Mics – 1 detachable adjustable Boom mic
- Mic Location – Left ear cup
- Pickup Pattern – Cardioid (Unidirectional)
- Frequency Response – 100 Hz to 10 kHz
- Sensitivity – -41 dB at 1 kHz
- Audio Connector to Source – USB-A and 1/8″, 3.5 mm
- Cable Design – Single-Sided
- Audio Connector to Earcup – USB-C and1/8″, 3.5 mm
Compatibility
- Platform Support – Windows, Mac, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, Smartphone
- OS Compatibility – Windows, macOS
Physical
- LED Indicator – Yes
- Material of Construction – Plastic, Memory Foam paddings
- Weight – 0.8 lb / 369 g
JBL Quantum ONE: The Context in the Box
let’s move on so what do we get in the box of this wired gaming headset. There are three wires. Firstly, there is an active noise cancellation calibration microphone and it’s like a mic sensor. We can plug the earbud into the ear whichever one we like. Then put the headset on over the top and we have to plug the connector the 3.5 millimeters into the microphone port of the headset itself.
This will help you with lots of different sensors like it will program the active noise canceling to behave especially for your own ear. The headset through the software runs a calibration profile When we come to the paperwork there is a quick start guide with some useful information and then the standard warranty papers as well.
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Then we have the used controller with the headset. You can just plug the used controller into your headset with the inline controls and into the back of the controller. When you are connected to the controller you lose the functionality of the earcups themselves. So, there is a mute switch and there is a volume rocker as well.
Finally, we have the main cable. if you’re using it on pc, you can use this main cable on some consoles also and all this is a 10-foot cable from USB type-a to USB type-c that connects to the headset and then you have this in-line chat to gain balance mixer. All the cables are braided and well-built and they can easily be plugged and unplugged.
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JBL Quantum ONE: Design
At first sight, you’ll note the JBL Quantum One‘s slick packaging. It is wrapped up similarly to how the A50s from the Astral series come, and within are the headset and the rest of the accessories.
JBL Quantum ONE is kind of a big headset and they do weigh in at around 350 grams with the mic attached which is kind of heavy. But with them being all plastic they’re very flexible and they don’t feel that mass on our head. Now starting at the top we’ve got the obligatory branding that we get on all gaming headphones nowadays.
When it is coming underneath there, we’ve got an extraordinarily nice amount of padding. We’ve got two separate sections we’ve got a nice bulky area in the middle that covers the top of your head and then two little bits at the side that are protruding slightly more just to help with that point loading which is kind of nice coming down from the headband itself.
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The headset has the exposed wires to the earcups standard stuff nowadays it’s just black with an orange accent which is kind of cool. Then it has the standard extension arms, which are loose. We don’t have to put more pressure to adjust the headset. So, it isn’t necessarily a bad thing. If we are putting these around our necks, we can just stretch the extension arms down. So, we can turn the headsets flat and not feel uncomfortable.
We’ve got the standard sort of forks that hold the ear cup to the headband itself and this does allow motion on the vertical axes and the horizontal. So, we can find that perfect fit around our ears. The microphone has two connectors on this, and we’ve got the standard auxiliary cable. There is a little bit of metal which is to prevent you from putting this in the wrong slot because there is an auxiliary slot just next to it.
All our controls of the headset are on the left ear. So, we do have the mute selector switch which is don’t get an audible noise to let you know when it is on mute with this headset just the red light at the bottom of the mic boom arm. Next, we do have the volume wheel which is an infinity wheel it just keeps going and going. Then we do have the button for centering our head and that’s kind of a cool feature in this headset.
We have next to that the active noise canceling now the ANC on this works remarkably well if you are in a busy environment and you want to drown out the rest of the world. But even without the noise cancellation switched on, JBL Quantum One is one of the most incredible gaming headsets for filtering out any outside noise that you would be used to hearing with standard gaming headphones because of the tight seal. We also get a game-chat-down mixer with a detachable microphone, a USB connector, and a 3.5-millimeter cable to connect this device to the controller of a console.
On the right ear cup, there are no controls at all and it’s just a nice headphone ear cup. When it comes to the padding the ear cups look very bulky. It is made up of an extraordinary amount of padding around the ear cup and there is leverage around it and memory foam.
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On the inside, we have the L and R indicators to let you know which way around to put the headset on. The build quality of this gaming headset is great. They’re very strong and very robust. There’s nothing on this that feels like it will break. We’ve got this nice JBL silver accent over this grooved bit of plastic which looks kind of beautiful and it also has some bright windows that reflect the enormous amount of brightness that this system is capable of producing. This headset has a gorgeous appearance even when the lights are off.
Speaking of the lights, some subtle RGB-led effects can be turned on or off and appear in two different places. The first is directly around the logos on each ear cup which looks as if the RGB panels are covered in mesh. The second snakes in a jagged pattern around the logo which again feels very much on brand and gives off a nice subtle effect.
JBL Quantum ONE: Sound Quality
As I mentioned before JBL has always been a top-tier brand in the audio department and it definitely doesn’t skimp out on audio quality when it comes to music with its flagship headset.
Listening to the music with the quantum one info fidelity mode makes listening to those audio files much crisper and clearer and it definitely brings out the true potential of this headset and makes it a much more enjoyable experience when we are playing games and listening to music at the same time and music can really take advantage of 5.1 audio.
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It also allows you to customize your experience with the JBL quantum engine software. It does provide a ton of different pre-installed equalization profiles including ones based on certain play styles or environments and that also lets you select between surround sound and 360-degree sound now the surround sound is any 360 degrees sound that you get on the JBL Quantum One.
It feels like the spatial sound makes this headset somewhat worth the price to go along with the custom RGB lighting you get on the outside of the ear cups.
The headset itself has three different audio drivers you need to download on Windows that actually require you to play around with the controls in your control panel to get the surround sound going and even at times that gave me issues once you do get everything running you can fully optimize and use the 3d sound.
JBL Quantum One Driver: Windows App
The JBL Quantum ONE driver downloads automatically for installation when you first plug the quantum one into your pc and the setup is fairly simple too. The software is kind of similar to other wired headsets but there are a few little things of differences compared to other pieces of software. Now let’s talk about it.
Equalizer
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First of all, we do have the equalizer and it is all nice and cool you can change through all the standard presets in this section. There are 7 different presets here. So, we got Bass Boost, Bass Cut, Clarity, Flat, FPS, High-end boost, and long session. But unfortunately, we can notice there’s nothing in there that deals with music or movies primarily at all. This is very much a gaming wired noise-canceling headset and we can say the JBL has created which is all kind of cool.
Lighting
In the lighting, firstly we can see two options On and Off for control lighting. As I mentioned above in the Design of the headset, the headset even looks cooler, and it looks quite stealthy without the lighting on. But if you are the kind of person that likes the lighting there are all sorts of things that you can do here and if a headset has RGB lighting, why don’t we try and enjoy it.
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So, there are 6 different lighting patterns, and they are named Arena, Dystopia, Sniper, Sound is Survival, Spectrum, and Strategic Control. Within here we can select to spectrum to produce all of the colors that the headset has. But you can roll through many different settings of them like advanced settings, sync all lights and we can adjust the lighting.
Spatial Sound
Then we’ve got the spatial sound. In this section, we can see there are main 3 options in here. The first one is standard off which is just stereo sound and it is all very lovely. if you want to watch movies with a gaming headset, we can recommend the DTS option. Because DTS helps bring surround sound to the headset. It wouldn’t necessarily use for gaming but for movies, DTS is more refined and it just works better. So, not only gaming, but also you can actually watch movies with these headphones, and it works perfectly fine with this setting turned on.
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Then thirdly we get to the exciting JBL Quantum Sphere 360. All sorts going on here you can see look there’s a picture of a head and a dimension. When you’re in the setting up here you have what’s known as a head tracking feature. Turning head tracking off just means it doesn’t track your head anyway and the question is why this would be useful in a game for the headphones to track my head. When you have this turn head tracker on if you go to the Equalizer option you can see an image of the headset there. When you turn your head, you can see the headset moves around and it tracks where you are now.
Spatial sound ensures that the sound is always coming from where it’s supposed to be coming from and it will not lose positional accuracy. If someone is shooting you on your left or you’re right the headphones will as accurately as possible recreate that sound from those directions. If you’re gaming somewhere where lots of people are around or if you have brothers and sisters that are always talking to you or asking you questions, then this feature would be a remarkable function for you.
Microphone
The microphone has the same kind of ANC functionality but it’s not nearly as clean and it is a detachable microphone as well. Speaking of the microphone quality is one of the stronger boomer microphones that are among other gaming headsets.
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The voices sound full and if you are looking for something to produce for a live stream this is a really good recommendation. It will do a good job if you want great sound while you are playing games with your friends. In the Microphone section of the JBL Quantum ONE driver, we can adjust the mic level, mic volume, and sidetone.
General
Finally, in the software, we have system software and help sections. It is all very same as other software. In the system software section, we can check the updates of the app and headset and we can change the language if you want. then we got the help section which is kind of cool actually the user manual doesn’t take you to a pdf, it takes it to the JBL website and it’s all nice and clear.
Verdict
The original price of this headset was 299.95$ and at that price it’s doable. It is a super comfortable headset with an extraordinarily nice amount of padding. The noise cancellation is fantastic, and you have a ton of customization options. The software works better the head tracking technology is much more advanced and the sound quality is on point and it’s natural sounding.
Finally, if you like to use a wired headset. Because there are a lot of people who use wired than wireless in the world. then cool go for this. You also have the inline chat to a game mixer which is always a benefit. It is very well built. If you’re gaming on pc and you want a wired gaming headset, then JBL Quantum ONE is definitely something that you should consider. JBL does come with that audio background which is very highly regarded.
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