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Review sample provided free of charge by Roccat. The wonderful thing about a fantastic headset is that lovely comforting feel it can provide, the sense that you’re isolated from the hustle and bustle of the outside world, able to ignore all the yelling and shouting and screaming and stabbing and gunshots going on behind you. Wait. That’s not right. What the hell are my family doing? Yes, a good set of cans can be a wonderful, and Roccat have already impressed me with their Khan Pro. Now, though, they’re aiming for 7.1 virtual surround sound and shiny lights with the Khan Aimo, So let’s just jump into this, shall we? In terms of build quality and its overall looks, there’s not much to separate the Khan Pro than I reviewed not so long ago and the Khan Aimo that I’m reviewing now as they’re both essentially the same. Once again we’ve got a nicely padded headband made of a soft, squishy memory foam, the very same material found on the earcups. It’s not particularly breathable so your h...

Review unit on loan from Roccat. Audio is something long looked over by all except the die-hards, but now we’re finally starting to see some appreciation for sound with digital streaming companies slowly but surely abandoning the horribly low quality 256kbps compression methods, while the introduction of Blu-ray and now 4k Blu-ray discs has resulted in a marked improvement for films and games. The reason I mention this is that the Roccat Khan claims to be the world’s first “Hi-Res Audio” headset, something usually defined as being 16 bit / 44.1KHz. It’s a meaningless statement for most consumers while audiophiles are all too used to dealing with how to get the best audio possible. As such the Japanese Audio Society (JAS) and the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) have created a certification for what they deem to be Hi-Res Audio, and the Roccat Khan meets the criteria. That’s all very well, but how does it sound? Well, for testing I hooked it up to my SoundBlasterZ internal sound...

The quickest, easiest and most horrifically expensive way to end the console wars forever would be to simply put every major platform on the market in 2019—including a powerful gaming PC—in the one box. And that’s exactly what this one box does. Made by Origin, they call it Big O, and inside its case is the actual hardware for a PC, Xbox One X, PS4 Pro and Nintendo Switch. As impressive as it looks and sounds, it’s not something you can actually buy, mostly because it was made as a stunt for the company’s 10th birthday, and partly because the cost of one of these babies would be insane. I do like the convenience factor, though, as well as the bombast in putting something like this together, so I’m going to indulge them. Advertisement The Nintendo Switch is unchanged, and accommodated by simply installing a Switch dock in the PC’s case. The PS4 Pro and Xbox One X, however, are now liquid-cooled, and each have a new 2TB SSD replacing their standard drives. The PC itself, meanwhile, is an...